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Car Crashes Down Into Philly Construction Site
A car full of people plummeted into a construction site at Ridge Avenue and Rector Street in Philadelphia’s Roxborough neighborhood as rain fell overnight. Investigators say all four young people in the car are expected to be OK.
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New Questions Arise About Potential Structural Flaws in Hard Rock Hotel Collapse
Authorities in New Orleans are now investigating a new video following the collapse of the future hotel. The social media post is raising questions about potential concerns before the deadly accident, NBC News reports. The grainy video claims to show the hotel two days before it buckled. An apparent worker at the construction site is heard in Spanish saying a...
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Watch: Drone Footage Shows Hotel After Collapse
Drone footage taken in New Orleans shows the damage after the Hard Rock Hotel collapsed during construction on Saturday.
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Firefighters Rescue Worker Dangling Stories Up in AC After Platform Collapses
Firefighters rescued two workers, one who was left dangling stories up, after a hanging construction platform partially collapsed on the side of an Atlantic City building Monday morning.
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Marine On Trial for Murder ‘Missed Thrill of Killing': DA
Prosecutors say a U.S. Marine veteran accused of stabbing a construction worker to death at an Oceanside job site in 2017 “missed the thrill” of killing and went out that night looking for a life to take.
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Shell Workers Would Have Lost Pay If They Missed Trump Speech at Plant
Thousands of union workers at a western Pennsylvania petrochemical plant were given a choice last week — show up for President Donald Trump’s speech on Wednesday or stay home and lose some of their weekly pay, NBC News reports. One of the construction site’s contractors wrote in rules for the speech ahead of the event that employees’ attendance was “not...
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Parents Fear Kids at Risk From Dangerous Dust at Silicon Valley School
An NBC Bay Area Investigation reveals the approval process to build a private school in Silicon Valley right next to a concrete plant was the result of an unfortunate chain of events, that included inaccurate permit applications, poor communication between government agencies, and other bureaucratic blunders.
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Lehigh Valley Church in Danger Due to Nearby Construction Project
Saint Mark’s and Saint John’s Episcopal Church in the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, is in danger. The historical church dating to 1867 is perched on top of a hill, into which a construction project needs to dig. Some church supporters say they will chain themselves to the construction site to stop work that they say threatens the church structure and...
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Contractor Broke Both His Legs in Harrowing Fall Into Trench on Construction Site
A contractor who fell into a trench on a Delaware construction site broke both his legs in the fall, the Delaware Department of Transportation said Monday.
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Workers Find Skeleton Wrapped in Clothing at Construction Site in Nicetown-Tioga
An investigation is underway after workers found human remains at a construction site in the Nicetown-Tioga section of Philadelphia Tuesday afternoon.
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Man Raped 11-Year-Old Girl in Top Bunk With Brother on Bottom Bunk: Prosecutor
A stranger climbed through a second-floor window, then up to the top bunk of a bed and raped an 11-year-old girl while her brother was in the bottom bunk below, a prosecutor said Sunday.
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Suspect Charged With Rape of 11-Year-Old Girl in Her Bedroom: Police
A suspect accused of climbing through a window and raping an 11-year-old girl inside her Brooklyn home was in custody Saturday to the cheering of neighbors, police said.
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2 Construction Workers Killed After Scaffolding Collapse at Site Near Walt Disney World
Orange County Fire Rescue said that the accident took place at a hotel being built near Chelonia Parkway – adding the workers were between the sixth and seventh floors when the accident occurred.
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Video Captures Person of Interest in Gloucester Twp. Arsons
Surveillance video captured a person of interest in multiple arson fires in Gloucester Township, New Jersey.
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Caught on Cam: Person of Interest in Gloucester Township Arson Fires
Surveillance video captured a person of interest in at least four arson fires in Gloucester Township, New Jersey.
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1 Dead, 15 Injured After Explosion at Hospital Near Waco
One person is dead and 15 others have been hurt after a large explosion at a Central Texas hospital.
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Sinkhole in New Jersey Swallows Construction Equipment
A sinkhole created a mess in a Hackensack, New Jersey, parking lot Monday, swallowing a backhoe in a construction site, authorities say.
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Workers Run for Their Lives as Crane Topples Over in St. Petersburg
The collapse of a crane sent construction workers running for their lives in a Florida city on Thursday, nearly striking a man as it toppled over.
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‘Game Changer': Robots Break New Ground in Construction Industry
As a teenager working for his dad’s construction business, Noah Ready-Campbell dreamed that robots could take over the dirty, tedious parts of his job, such as digging and leveling soil for building projects. Now the former Google engineer is turning that dream into a reality with Built Robotics, a startup that’s developing technology to allow bulldozers, excavators and other construction...