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The bridge is not considered structurally deficient although it is listed as being "functionally obsolete".

The bright green suits of scuba divers on board a speedboat pierced the dusk, as they perused a mangle of steel girders of a section of bridge that lay collapsed in the waters of a Washington state river late Thursday.

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There will be no repeat of the 2012 men's singles final at the French Open after defending champion Rafael Nadal was drawn Friday in the same half as No.1-ranked Novak Djokovic for this year's second grand slam of the se...

With the help of my Atlantic Wire colleagues, I have compiled 12 contenders for the best summer food, along with the reasons we would consume these items all year round if we had our druthers. Who is the top of the summe...

"For too many Americans, Memorial Day has become just another day off," said Andy Rooney. How did he want the holiday celebrated?

Part of bridge over the Skagit river gives way, with rescuers using boats to search for people in the water The major highway bridge linking the Washington state city of Seattle with Canada and the rest of the Pacific no...

A 20-year-old American named Kevin Dahlgren accused in the grisly murders of a family of four in the Czech Republic has been arrested in the United States, the Associated Press reported Friday. The Czech regional police ...

The Fitbit Flex and Jawbone Up are very similar fitness bracelets that track your activity. Which one should you put on your wrist?

Since May 8, students have used the room to spread word about their rebellion against charging undergraduate tuition, eat catered meals and entertain visits from activists.

China and Switzerland sign a memorandum of understanding on a free-trade agreement, the first such deal for China with a major Western economy.

By Michelle Sheiman

A Russian billionaire was the high bidder at a fundraiser in Cannes.

The comments to my recent post concerning the "independent tests" of Andrea Rossi's low energy nuclear reaction (LENR) system called the E-Cat make for interesting reading and both here and in other forums the report has...

A Metropolitan Police officer is charged with assaulting a person at a north London police station.

The holiday weekend traffic began with a tragedy when a women jumped to her death from an I-95 overpass.

Regarding the President's speech yesterday on counterterrorism at the National Defense University; will his rhetoric be of substance & conform to the actual policy and actions he takes? Otherwise it will be just empty ho...

36 years ago, a brief radio signal was detected by an observatory in Ohio. Could it have been an extraterrestrial transmission?

After a whirlwind week in which he won the National Geographic Bee in Washington, D.C., and then flew to New York City for a round of media interviews, Sathwik Karnik came back down to earth today, returning to his middl...

In Asia, there's little difference in self-control between genders, but girls tested better than boys in the United States.

TORONTO (AP) -- Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied Friday that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug. The mayor of Canada's largest city did not say whether he...

It has to be one of the strangest consumer-fraud complaints ever: The attorney general of Vermont has sued a Texas lawyer for threatening to sue businesses when he had no intention of suing anybody.