Big Dig collapse prompts renewed scrutiny
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At least 12 tons of concrete collapsed onto a car in a Big Dig tunnel, fatally crushing a passenger and prompting renewed scrutiny Tuesday of a troubled highway project that is already the costliest in U.S. history. The state attorney general said he plans to treat the site as a crime scene that could lead to negligent homicide charges.
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The political battle over the fatal Big Dig tunnel collapse is moving to the courtroom as embattled Massachusetts Turnpike board Chairman Matthew Amorello fights to keep his job.
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As recovery teams examined the mangled NASA Genesis probe lodged in the floor of Utah&#39;s west desert earlier this month, a crew member spotted a horseshoe in the sand.
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BEIJING: Chinese authorities say preliminary findings into Sunday&#39;s mining accident point to negligence and greed. Mine bosses have been accused of being
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By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash.  Mar. 1--Mid-Columbia astronomers are worried the final management plan for the Hanford Reach National Monument could call for tearing down one of the highest quality telescopes available for public use in the Northwest.
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Putting the recent collapse in perspective.
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The Federal Highway Administration told state authorities to take a new look at bridges to make sure they do not have the kind of design flaw that doomed the I-35W bridge, which collapsed in Minneapolis last summer.
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The independent agency charged with overseeing the &#36;14.6 billion highway project known as the Big Dig intends to sue the consortium that managed the venture, seeking to recover as much as &#36;100 million in costs for design errors and construction mistakes.
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Engineers hired to investigate the cause of September&#39;s massive Big Dig tunnel leak have discovered that the project is riddled with hundreds of leaks that are pouring millions of gallons of water into the $14.
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Gov. Mitt Romney said Monday that tests show more than 1,100 bolt assemblies that used epoxy and more than 300 other areas in a Big Dig connector tunnel where the ceiling collapsed are unreliable.
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Safety repairs to a portion of the Big Dig tunnel where a motorist was killed by falling ceiling panels have been completed and the section will reopen once federal authorities give the OK, Gov. Mitt Romney said Friday.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Two years after an explosion tore apart the Sago Mine and killed 12 men, prompting Congress to pass legislation strengthening mine safety standards, many of those standards have yet to be implemented.
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A new study of seabed sediments supports the idea that a single giant collision killed the dinosaurs, but supporters of multiple-impact theories remain unconvinced.
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By Michael Levenson, Globe Correspondent | November 12, 2004. To Big Dig officials, the tunnels beneath downtown Boston recall the grandeur and ingenuity of the pyramids or the Parthenon.
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An oil companyâs plan to begin exploratory drilling near the remote site of Robert Smithsonâs âSpiral Jettyâ along the Great Salt Lake in Utah has stirred an impassioned response from artists and others who fear that the project could endanger that massive artwork. The jetty, a 1,500-foot-long curlicue of salt crystals, rocks and mud jutting into the lake, was completed by Smithson in 1970, three years before he died in a plane crash. The State of Utah, which must approve any plan for drilling in the area, decided recently to extend a period for public comment on the proposal until Feb. 13. John Harja, who runs the stateâs public land policy coordinating office, said on Tuesday that the office had received 900 letters, e-mail messages and calls about the issue in the last several days. Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, issued a statement calling the jetty âa significant cultural siteâ and saying that the trust was âdeeply concerned about the potential harm that energy development could bringâ to it.
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An investigation is under way after two people died when a 165ft (50m) high crane collapsed on to flats in London.
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A materials failure called "epoxy creep" was a major factor in the Big Dig highway tunnel ceiling panel collapse that killed a woman a year ago, federal investigators said Tuesday.