BREAKING! Norway bridge collapse: One person confirmed dead

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Norway bridge collapse: One person confirmed dead. – VG #trondheim

Technological Disaster in Norway on Wednesday, 08 May, 2013 at 19:16 (07:16 PM) UTC.

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At least one person was missing and several injured after a bridge under construction collapsed on the outskirts of Trondheim Wednesday afternoon. Emergency crews were still scrambling to reach a car trapped under the rubble. Anders Bang Danielsen of the Trondheim police confirmed that at least [...]

BREAKING: BUS CRASH IN TEXAS, 40 TRAPPED, 2 DEAD. LIVE VIDEO COVERAGE.

Bus crashes in Texas; Two Killed, Dozens Injured

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Bus-Crash-in-Irving-bush-turnpike-sh-161-202519541.html

Two Killed, Dozens Injured in Bus Rollover on Bush Turnpike

SH 161 closed, drivers advised to avoid the area for several hours

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Bus-Crash-in-Irving-bush-turnpike-sh-161-202519541.html

More than 36 people were injured and two were killed when a private charter bus overturned along state Highway 161/President George Bush Turnpike Thursday morning.

Department of Public Safety Trooper Lonny Hashell confirmed two people were killed in the crash. 36 injured were transported [...]

Bedbugs Spreading to Theaters, Offices, Schools

They’ve shown up in library books and hitched rides aboard school textbooks and book bags, and health officials continue to field calls from frantic rescue workers and home health care aides as well as school officials, landlords and emergency crews.

Bedbugs — they just won’t go away.

“We’re going to office buildings and banks. … We’ve been to a couple of movie theaters, and we’re going into a medical clinic tonight,” Bob [...]

Winter Storm Buries Northeast; Leaves 10 Dead, 700,000 Powerless

Anugrah Kumar
Christian Post
Feb 10, 2013

New Englanders were digging out from 3 feet of snow and stranded motorists were still being reached by emergency crews early Sunday after one of the biggest blizzards in a generation left at least 10 people dead and over 700,000 without electricity across the northeast.

Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts bore the brunt of the howling winter storm’s fury on Saturday, with the highest snowfall of 40 [...]

LI, CT, RI. Gov of CT Now Has Statewide Travel Ban!!! Storm Knocks Out Power To 400K, Shut Down Plymouth’s Pilgrim Nuke Plant In MA!! Driving Ban In Place Into Tomorrow!! Wave Heights Over 3 Stories high! Now 35.4 ft At Buoy 44098!!! Strong Winds Continue To Sweep Across New England and Long Island!!

Eric Holthaus‏@EricHolthaus

It’s simply epic out there across LI, CT, RI. Gov of CT now has statewide travel ban. For Boston, heaviest snow is still getting underway.

https://twitter.com/thematthewkeys/us-severe-weather

AccuWeather.com‏@breakingweather

The AP reports between 60-100 cars stuck on Long Island Expressway. Emergency crews working to move occupants to safety.

FoxCT News‏@FoxCT

Gov. Malloy ordered all roads in CT closed until further notice. Emergency vehicles capable of moving in heavy snow only. #blizzard #CT

Breaking News Storm‏@breakingstorm

Newark International Airport [...]

BREAKING: Tornado Touchdown in Georgia – Cars Overturned, Major Damage Reported – Tornado Moving NE At 65 mph

DEVELOPING: Major damage with numerous cars overturned in Adairsville, GA. Tornado moving NE at 65 mph

https://twitter.com/Occuweather

DEVELOPING: MT @dailytribnews: Tornado touch down with damage and entrapments in Adairsville,GA area. Emergency crews responding!

Tornado Debris Signature (TDS) on CC Dual-Pol as storm exits Adairsville GA.

https://twitter.com/DDwx/status/296656794888048640/photo/1

BREAKING: CNN reporting I-75 in Georgia – “people reported trapped” in Adairsville Georgia

RT @TWCBreaking Tornado struck Adairsville, GA at 11:19amt; cars flipped, “major structural damage” reported.

 

DB

Snowpocalypse Russia: ‘Snow tsunami’ swallows streets, cars, buildings (PHOTOS)

While the snowstorms have caused inconvenience for large population centers in western Russia, they have been life-threatening further east in the country. The polar circle city of Norilsk has been buried under 10 feet of snow – entire apartment blocks, markets, stores and offices were buried under snow overnight.

Banks of snow were as high as two people put together, reaching the second-story windows of some apartment buildings. Cars, stores, garages [...]

BREAKING: NEW JERSEY BRIDGE COLLAPSES!! TRAIN DERAILS into the CREEK!

Bridge collapses: http://www.breakingnews.com/

Emergency crews are on the scene of a freight train derailment and hazardous material spill in southern New Jersey.

The Gloucester County Times reports four tank cars were dumped into Mantua Creek in Paulsboro Friday and are leaking vinyl chloride.

The newspaper says 18 people are reported to be having difficulty breathing.

http://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/derailment-sends-chemical-tank-cars-into-nj-creek-1.4278138?qr=1

 Good pics here

http://www.myfoxphilly.com/story/20225578/train-derailment-in-paulsboro-nj

Four railroad tank cars tumbled into the Mantua Creek and are leaking flammable vinyl chloride after the train [...]

Massive Sinkhole Still Growing – Ohio: 4 Football Fields Long, Shuts Down 8 Mile Stretch Of Road

Another massive sinkhole has emerged, this time outside of Dover, Ohio. According to WTOV9, emergency crews have been forced to close down an 8-mile stretch along a road in Tuscarawas County because of the rapidly growing monster.

Officials said the sinkhole is 30-feet deep and as long as four football fields, and it’s still growing. It takes up about half the roadway.

LINK:

http://www.wtov9.com/news/news/breaking-news-massive-sinkhole-closes-8-mile-stret/nTHj5/

 

Woman is wondering why the seemingly abnormally high levels of [...]

Massive Sinkhole In Tuscarawas Co. Ohio

TUSCARAWAS COUNTY, Ohio —

Emergency crews have been forced to close down an 8-mile stretch along a road in Tuscarawas Countybecause of a massive sinkhole.

 

The sinkhole is on state Route 516 in the area of Bair Road, about a mile outside of Dover.

http://www.wtov9.com/news/news/breaking-news-massive-sinkhole-closes-8-mile-stret/nTHj5/

Nitrate Plant explosion & boom Rattles ground In North West Alabama Just now See updates

Nitrate Plant explosion in North Alabama, Florence area.
Felt it,heard it & called 911 & reports are flooding in.
It shook our home like a earth quake. Wow!!
will keep you all posted.

Pretty sure this will make news.

UPDATE: It’s now news. updated title.
They are saying a nitrogen plant explosion!
This was felt for miles……

Update: Comments flooding in on our weather man’s facebook.
1 employee hurt is all they are saying.

https://www.facebook.com/simpsonwhnt/posts/501492409875178?comment_id=5852095&notif_t=feed_comment_reply

Update: News link
http://whnt.com/2012/11/13/breaking-cherokee-nitrogen-plant-explosion/

COLBERT COUNTY, Ala. (WHNT) [...]

SOUTHWEST jet skids skids off frozen runway in Denver

Emergency crews responded to ‘airliner crash’ report on Saturday evening

All passengers were safely evacuated with no injuries reported

Passengers on board a Southwest Airlines jet that slid off a frozen runway at Denver International Airport say they are lucky to be alive after the plane terrifyingly lost control in the last seconds of landing.

Fire fighters and emergency personnel rushed to the scene shortly after 5pm on Saturday with crews heard hastily [...]

LIVESTREAM: ‘Disgruntled’ worker takes hostages in Pittsburgh

PITTSBURGH —

Emergency crews have responded to a hostage situation in downtown Pittsburgh’s Gateway Center.

A person inside of the building told Channel 11 News that a man armed with a gun and at least two duffle bags with unknown contents is on the 16th floor.

Sources said the man pulled out the gun around 8:20 a.m.

Target 11 investigator Rick Earle reported that the gunman may be a disgruntled employee. Sources told Earle [...]

Fox News Channel Questions Narrative Of ‘Batman’ Massacre

Did James Holmes have an accomplice?

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

A local Fox News channel came off sounding more like Infowars than the mainstream media when it listed a series of unanswered questions that challenge the official narrative of the ‘Batman’ massacre and suggest a wider plot.

FOX19.com-Cincinnati News, Weather

 

 

Ben Swann, a reporter for WXIX-FOX19 out of Cincinnati listed the questions as part of a segment called ‘Reality Check’, which [...]

PANDEMONIUM: Mass Shooting In Cinema in Aurora, Colorado… 12 Dead And Approximately 50 Injured In Denver Shooting, 4 Died At Hospital… One Suspect Was in Custody… DEVELOPING…

At least 12 people have died in a shooting in Aurora, Colorado early this morning at a midnight showing of The Dark Knight. Here are the details that we know so far:

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/watch-video-recap-of-colorado-shooting-2012-7

 

Story is developing. Refresh for updates. 

URGENT: At least 15 people have been killed and up to 50 injured after a mass shooting at a showing of “The Dark Knight Rises” at a suburban Denver movie theater, police say.

The suspect, believed to be the [...]

Boy, 3, kills father after finding his gun and accidentally shooting him as he watched TV

A three-year-old Indiana boy killed his father after finding his loaded handgun and accidentally shooting him.  

Police say Michael A Bayless, 33, was watching TV with two of his three children when the three-year-old discovered the pistol on Friday night.

When emergency crews arrived at the house in Salem, Indiana, Mr Bayless was already dead, having passed away in front of his family.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2173676/Boy-3-kills-father-finding-gun-accidentally-shooting-watched-TV.html#ixzz20i0jYmSL

DAY 5: 1 MILLION STILL WITHOUT POWER

I have been 5 days without power because they restored the upper class and low income housing along with ALL businesses first. Once again the middle class who pays for their free housing and their utilities is the last to be taken care of.

Instead of working to restore my power the AEP workers were delivering food to the low income housing project because they told them NO ONE HAS TAKEN [...]

‘It’s looks like just a horrible, horrible accident’: Newborn baby boy suffocates to death after mother ROLLS OVER him in her sleep

A mother in Northern California woke up Monday morning to discover that she rolled over her newborn baby, apparently strangling him to death in what police are calling a terrible accident.

Deputy Royjindar Singh, of the Stanislaus County Sheriff’s Department, said emergency crews arrived on the scene in the 400 block of Church Street in Waterford shortly after 9am and began CPR on the baby, who was not breathing.

The little boy [...]

COPS: Bullying caused suicide of boy — age 7!

DETROIT (WJBK) – Detroit police are investigating the death of a 7-year-old boy who was found hanging from a bunk bed with a belt around his neck.

Police say they responded to a home north of the New Center area around 5:30 p.m. after the boy’s 14-year-old sister found him unconscious. Emergency crews performed CPR and transported him to Henry Ford Hospital where he later died.

 

Detroit Boy, 7, Dies in [...]

BREAKING: A Delta Plane Has Been Quarantined At Chicago Midway Due To Serious Medical Problem With A Passenger

A Delta Plane has been quarantined at Chicago Midway Airport.

 

CBS local reports that “serious medical problem with a passenger” has led to the quarantine.

Sources told CBS that the flight may have been traveling from Ghana and a passenger may have “some sort or rash and contagious disease”.

ABC7 reports that emergency crews are on the runway and the Chicago Department of Public Health is working with the Centers for Disease Control.

The aircraft has been identified as Flight 3163 [...]

When April Fool’s goes wrong: Prank call about high school shooting draws town’s ENTIRE police department

An army of law-enforcement officers responded to a bomb threat at a high school that turned out to be an April Fool’s Day joke.

Three police departments, a helicopter, paramedics, firefighters and a SWAT Team raced over to Roseville High School in California when they took the prankster’s call seriously.

The caller, a 30-year-old man with autism who was in Virginia, told officials that students were injured and a pipe bomb was [...]

Cash-Strapped NJ Town To Charge For Emergency Calls: $1,000 For House Fires, $600 For Car Fires

PASSAIC, NJ (CBSNewYork) – When emergency crews respond to a car or building fire in Passaic, a bill might soon be sent out.

WCBS 880?s Levon Putney On The Story

 

When the Passaic City Council meets next Tuesday, Mayor Alex Blanco said what they will not decide to do is levy fees against people in car accidents or building owners whose structures catch fire.

What they will do is go after the insurance companies.

“If you [...]

787 Runs Over Worker At Airport

EVERETT, Wash. – Officials say emergency crews have rescued a worker who was temporarily trapped beneath the tires of a Boeing 787 jetliner at an Everett, Wash., airfield.

Paine Field Airport Director Dave Waggoner tells KOMO-TV that the Japan Airlines plane was being towed Friday evening when a member of a Boeing ground crew was run over. Read more…

Snow Traps 11,000+ in Serbia

By DUSAN STOJANOVIC and MONIKA SCISLOWSKA Associated Press
BELGRADE, Serbia February 2, 2012 (AP)

 

 

At least 11,000 villagers have been trapped by heavy snow and blizzards in Serbia’s mountains, authorities announced Thursday, as the death toll from Eastern Europe’s weeklong deep freeze rose to 114.

Those stranded live in some 6,500 homes in remote areas that cannot be reach due to icy, snow-clogged roads, emergency police official Predrag Maric said. Emergency crews [...]

DOG SHOOTS MAN

BRIGHAM CITY — It wasn’t his dog’s bark or bite that had a Brigham City man concerned, it was his aim.

 

A man was recovering Wednesday after being shot over the weekend by his dog.

 

A 46-year-old Brigham City man and a friend were duck hunting Sunday about 8:30 a.m. on the north end of the Great Salt Lake near the bird refuge, about 10 miles west of Brigham City.

 

The two had [...]

DOG SHOOTS MAN

BRIGHAM CITY — It wasn’t his dog’s bark or bite that had a Brigham City man concerned, it was his aim.

 

A man was recovering Wednesday after being shot over the weekend by his dog.

 

A 46-year-old Brigham City man and a friend were duck hunting Sunday about 8:30 a.m. on the north end of the Great Salt Lake near the bird refuge, about 10 miles west of Brigham City.

 

The two had [...]

BREAKING: Airplane crashes in Superstition Mountains, official says

Pinal County authorities Wednesday evening reported that a plane had gone down in the Superstition Mountains.

The county sheriff’s office said a fire had broken out as a result, and that emergency crews were on the way.

The size of the plane or how many passengers were aboard are not known at this time.

Check back at azcentral.com for updates.

SWAT team deployed as gun battle erupts on US-Mexico border

Ildefonso Ortiz and Jared Taylor
The Monitor

ESCOBARES — Gunmen crossed the Rio Grande into the United States near a shootout between where the Mexican military and a group of gunmen was taking place.

Several area SWAT teams responded about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday to a ranch near Escobares, just across the U.S.-Mexico border, where a shootout broke out south of the Rio Grande.

The shootout reportedly began shortly after noon but details were not [...]

COPS: Woman set house on fire with foreclosure notice

CORRY, Pa. (AP) — A northwestern Pennsylvania woman tried to smother her sleeping adult son before she set her house on fire with foreclosure documents and sliced her wrist with a razor, police said.

Eve Shreve was arraigned Tuesday on charges including attempted homicide and arson in the March 18 fire in Corry, about 25 miles southeast of Erie. She covered [...]

Medicis CEO’s 6-year-old son dead from fall, after girlfriend found dead in Coronado mansion – azcentral

Jonah Shacknai, founder and CEO of Scottsdale-based Medicis Pharmaceuticals Corp., on Sunday announced that his 6-year-old son, Max, has died of injuries he sustained in a fall inside the family home last week.

“With great sadness, Dina (Shacknai’s ex-wife and the boy’s mother) and I convey the tragic passing of our beloved son, Max,” said Shacknai, in a statement released to the media.

“Despite heroic efforts on [...]

ICE CREAM TRUCK DRIVER SHOT AND KILLED

DAYTON — Police are looking for a young black man in Tuesday evening’s fatal shooting of a well-known ice cream truck driver on Midway Avenue.

Carl Banks, 60, was shot moments after he sold ice cream to kids outside the Whitmore Arms Apartments in the 4600 block of Midway around 6:15 p.m., according to police.

Police originally thought it was an accident when [...]

DROUGHT: BARBECUES BANNED IN TEXAS

Those hoping for a backyard barbecue and a night of fireworks this Fourth of July won’t get them in Guadalupe County this year.

That’s because they have been banned until after the July 4 holiday.

This comes after County Judge Mike Wiggins signed a local state of disaster declaration and sent it to the governor’s office on Friday.

Governor Rick Perry signed the declaration on Friday extending the ban until to July 5.

The [...]

Parents of Ont. teen killed after texting and driving speak out

OTTAWA — The parents of an Ontario teen who died in an accident are pleading with people not to text while driving.

Damon Souliere was on his way home to Pembroke on the weekend when his car hit a tractor trailer head-on.

The 18-year-old had just sent a text to a friend he saw the night before, saying he had a good time.

Damon’s mother, Susanne, says text messages from friends were [...]

Storms leave 7 dead in AR; All but wipe out town

VILONIA, Ark. – The National Weather Service says first light has revealed the track of a deadly tornado that flattened trees and power lines, tore the roofs from homes and left a debris-strewn path through a small central Arkansas town.

The tornado that swiped Vilonia late Monday killed at least four residents, while the severe storms sweeping much of the Midwest left at least three people [...]

Weekend of severe weather across the South leaves at least 45 dead, 22 in North Carolina alone

RALEIGH, N.C. –  A devastating storm that spawned tornadoes, flash floods and hail as big as softballs has claimed at least 45 lives across the U.S. while roaring through the South and gaining steam in North Carolina and Virginia.

Emergency crews searched for victims in hard-hit swaths of North Carolina, where 62 tornadoes were reported from the worst spring storm in two decades to hit the [...]