CAPE TOWN, South Africa — A bus carrying worshippers headed to an Easter festival plunged off a bridge on a mountain pass and burst into flames in South Africa on Thursday, killing at least 45 people, authorities said. The only survivor of the crash was an 8-year-old child, who was receiving medical attention, according to […]
DUNDALK, Maryland — Salvage crews began their trip Thursday to the Francis Scott Key Bridge’s wreck site as both incoming commercial ships and first responders have found a helping hand from the shaken but resolute nearby community. The U.S. Coast Guard said crane-carrying barges set out for the Patapsco River with the goal of removing […]
Rep. Dan Meuser slammed President Biden for promising the federal government would fund the replacement of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge that collapsed. “It was kind of outrageous immediately for Biden to express in this tragedy the idea that he’s going to use federal funds to pay for the entirety,” Mr. Meuser, Pennsylvania Republican, said […]
On Tuesday, Joe Biden shamelessly inserted himself into the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse by saying that he regularly commuted over the bridge during his days in the Senate. “At about 1:30, a container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which I’ve been over many, many times commuting […]
The National Transportation Safety Board has confirmed that the container ship that knocked out Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday was carrying tons of hazardous materials. Dangerous chemicals and other elements were exposed on the deck of the MV Dali as well as in the water of Baltimore Harbor. Not all of the materials […]
Alrighty. We are a full day removed from the God-awful tragedy of the container vessel Dali striking a pylon on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, sending the entire superstructure of the bridge into the mouth of the harbor, and the horrific loss of the construction workers who were still on the bridge when […]
When a 900-foot container ship struck the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge in 2007, the span stood firm and no one died, either on the ship or the highway above. The bridge’s supports were protected by a fendering system of concrete and other materials that was installed to absorb such strikes. And it’s now prompting the […]
BALTIMORE — Investigators began collecting evidence from the cargo ship that plowed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge and caused its collapse, while in the waters below divers searched through twisted metal for six construction workers who plunged into the harbor. The bodies of two were recovered Wednesday, and the others were presumed dead. The […]
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that he has not spoken with the shipping company whose vessel knocked down the Francis Scott Key Bridge, but the federal government is ready to foot the bill. A complex network of insurance policies covers the collapse of the span and associated costs. The payouts, expected to top $1.2 […]
A cargo ship rammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Bridge early Tuesday, causing the span to collapse and the presumed deaths of six people. On Wednesday, officials with the National Transportation Safety Board boarded the ship and planned to recover information from its electronics and paperwork while divers continued to search for those missing. Here’s what […]
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