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Month: June 2023

New condo tower could be built at site of Surfside condo collapse

New condo tower could be built at site of Surfside condo collapse

Zaha Hadid Architects (SURFSIDE, Fla.) — Nearly two years after the 12-story Champlain Towers South condominium complex collapsed, causing the deaths of 98 people in Surfside, Florida, plans were submitted Monday that call for another 12-story condominium building to be constructed on the oceanfront property where the catastrophe occurred. DAMAC […]

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Officials unveil Interstate 95 collapse repair plan in Philadelphia: ‘This is our championship’

Officials unveil Interstate 95 collapse repair plan in Philadelphia: ‘This is our championship’

Mark Makela/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Officials unveiled on Wednesday a plan to repair an elevated section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia that collapsed when a tanker truck caught fire in the underpass. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said the “most efficient” way to get the impacted lanes reopened will be to […]

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Woman, 28, arrested for allegedly enrolling at high school as a 17-year-old

Woman, 28, arrested for allegedly enrolling at high school as a 17-year-old

Stella/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 28-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly posing as a 17-year-old student and attending a Louisiana high school, authorities said. Martha Jessenia Gutierrez-Serrano, 28, and her mother, Marta Elizeth Serrano-Alvarado, 46, both of Boutte, Louisiana, were each charged Tuesday with one count of injuring […]

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South braces for severe weather, dangerous heat: Latest forecast

South braces for severe weather, dangerous heat: Latest forecast

ABC News (NEW YORK) — The South is bracing for severe weather on Wednesday, including strong tornadoes, powerful winds and large hail. The bull’s-eye will be from Jackson, Mississippi, to Montgomery, Alabama, to Albany, Georgia, where winds could reach 80 mph or higher. But the severe weather could stretch as […]

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Interstate 95 collapse repair plan to be announced in Philadelphia

Interstate 95 collapse repair plan to be announced in Philadelphia

Mark Makela/Getty Images (PHILADELPHIA) — Officials are expected to unveil on Wednesday a plan to repair an elevated section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia that collapsed when a tanker truck caught fire in the underpass. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, Pennsylvania Secretary of Transportation Mike Carroll, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney, Federal […]

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Police K-9 dies from heat exhaustion after patrol car malfunctions, unexpectedly shuts off

Police K-9 dies from heat exhaustion after patrol car malfunctions, unexpectedly shuts off

KTRK-TV (HOUSTON) — A 4-year-old police K-9 named Aron with one-and-a-half years of experience on the force has died from heat exhaustion after being left in an air-conditioned patrol car that unexpectedly shut off when the officer was away from the vehicle. The incident occurred on Monday in Houston, Texas, […]

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Kayaker presumed dead after disappearing into frigid water while with fiancée

Kayaker presumed dead after disappearing into frigid water while with fiancée

Heath Korvola/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A man who was kayaking with his fiancée is presumed to have died after his vessel began sinking and disappeared into near-freezing water. The kayaker — 37-year-old Travis Valenti from Massapequa, New York — was kayaking on Lake Crescent in Olympic National Park in […]

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Scoreboard roundup — 6/13/23

Scoreboard roundup — 6/13/23

iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUE Colorado 7, Boston 6 NY Yankees 7, NY Mets 6 Minnesota 7, Milwaukee 5 Cincinnati 5, Kansas City 4 Houston 6, Washington 1 San Diego 6, Cleveland 3 Seattle 9, Miami 3 LA Dodgers […]

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Heat wave expected to reach parts of Texas, millions at risk for severe weather

Heat wave expected to reach parts of Texas, millions at risk for severe weather

ABC News (NEW YORK) — Severe weather is possible for 16 million Americans across the Southern U.S. from Texas to South Carolina on Tuesday. A severe thunderstorm watch was issued for parts of eastern Texas and northern Louisiana– from Tyler, Texas to Shreveport, Louisiana, through 6 p.m., local time on Tuesday […]

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Judge allows E. Jean Carroll to amend pending defamation lawsuit against Trump

Judge allows E. Jean Carroll to amend pending defamation lawsuit against Trump

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — As former President Donald Trump was being arraigned in Florida Tuesday on charges related to his handling of classified documents after leaving office, a federal judge in New York dealt him another legal blow. Judge Lewis Kaplan allowed writer E. Jean Carroll to amend a […]

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