WSVN-TV(MIAMI) — The technique used to build the bridge that collapsed in Miami on Thursday was intended to cause less disruption and make installing new bridges easier. The bridge that fell near Florida International University was put in place using accelerated bridge construction methods, and there is a school at […]
GabrielaRose12/Twitter(MIAMI) — A newly installed bridge touted as a feat of engineering collapsed on Florida International University’s campus on Thursday, killing several people. Aerial footage showed first responders tending to victims at the scene, searching for people in the rubble, and loading others on stretchers and into ambulances. They were […]
Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) — In a crucial pre-trial ruling that could help determine the fate of comedian Bill Cosby, a Pennsylvania judge ruled Thursday that he will allow five additional accusers to testify about allegedly being drugged and sexually assaulted by Cosby over the years. Prosecutors had asked the […]
WSVN-TV(MIAMI) — The afternoon rumbling sent Tiona Page running to her apartment window in Miami. “It felt as if there was an earthquake,” Page told ABC News on Wednesday. “Me and my roommate jumped up and looked out.” What Page saw from her 15th-floor window was a plume of rising […]
WSVN-TV(MIAMI) — An emerging way of installing bridges was touted as the way of the future, with safety at the forefront. Now just four days after being installed using that method, a bridge connecting a college campus to a nearby residential area collapsed over a busy highway. The bridge was […]
ABC News(MIAMI) — A pedestrian bridge stretching across a street on the Florida International University campus in Miami collapsed Thursday afternoon, killing multiple people, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. Aerial footage showed first responders tending to victims on the scene, searching for people in the rubble and loading others […]
iStock / Thinkstock(PIKEVILLE, Ky.) — Kentucky police have arrested a man who was wanted for questioning relating to the shooting death of a police officer earlier this week. Pikeville Police Department Officer Scotty Hamilton was shot and killed in the line of duty late Tuesday night in Pike County, Kentucky. […]
iStock / Thinkstock(BROWARD COUNTY, Fla.) — Authorities released new surveillance video today that shows some Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students just as a gunman was opening fire at the Parkland, Florida, campus. The footage, which starts at 2:22 p.m. — one minute after authorities said the shooting started — […]
ABCNews.com(CHICAGO) — Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, Bill Gillespie celebrated “adoption days” along with birthdays, but had long wondered about what happened to his birth parents. After his adoptive parents died, he started digging into his past. He was not prepared for what he found. Gillespie, now 53, […]
iStock / Thinkstock(ORLANDO, Fla.) — Jurors in the federal terrorism trial of Noor Salman, the wife of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, got a gripping sense of the brutality of the 2016 massacre as they watched eerily-silent black-and-white security footage of the killer pacing through gaps in a sea of […]
