Nine years ago, one of Silverthorne’s few income-restricted housing properties was sold to a private firm. The sale — at a price that was double the property’s assessed value — raised worries in the high-cost mountain community that the new owner of the Blue River Apartments might lift rent caps that had kept its 78 … Read more
Protection around America’s bridges has been thrown into question in recent weeks after a massive container ship hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last month. Now, it’s emerged that the safety standards many U.S. bridges are built to are actually based on antiquated models developed in West Germany decades ago. Weekend … Read more
A massive container ship hit and destroyed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore last month, killing six people and shutting one of America’s busiest ports in the process. The company that operates the ship is now trying everything to get out of paying up for the mammoth task of extracting the stricken vessel and … Read more
Officially, the U.S. government has no proof that sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena are the result of alien activity. Apparently, though, the definitely-probably-not-aliens have been observed operating unidentified submerged objects in our oceans, Fox News reports. They fly, too, but when they want, they… Read more… FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here … Read more
Florida came second with 73,109 vehicle miles, and New Jersey came third with 69,268. (Representational image: pixabay.com) US States With Highest Vehicle Traffic: The traffic on American roads is like an endless chain of steel on wheels with the mean machines going vroom on the long and well-connected highways. The vehicular traffic in the USA … Read more
After the MV Dali brought down the Franklin Key Bridge in Baltimore, folks wondered how this could happen, and could it happen again? As if to answer this unspoken question, it almost immediately happened again: the APL Qingdao lost power near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in New York Harbor earlier this month. The Honda Passport Is … Read more
Image: U.S. Army Corps Of Engineers, Baltimore District The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducted its survey of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore using sonar images, and has concluded that it can have the debris removed and the shipping channel re-opened by May. The images, released earlier this week, show much of … Read more
Divers recover body of 3rd worker killed in Key Bridge collapse – CBS News Watch CBS News Authorities in Baltimore recovered the body of a third construction worker who died in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse. Meanwhile, President Biden traveled to the site on Friday and surveyed the wreckage. CBS News senior transportation correspondent … Read more
The world’s first patient with a transplanted pig kidney has left the hospital almost three weeks after the operation. Rick Slayman is recovering well and will now continue his recovery at home with his family, the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston announced on X, formerly Twitter. “This moment, leaving the hospital today with one of … Read more
Since the Francis Scott Key Bridge was destroyed over a week ago, we’ve gotten a ton of photos and videos of the wreckage. Much of it has been either from land or the water. Now, we’re getting our first look at what the disaster looks like from the bridge itself. Neolun Concept First Look : … Read more
