And Tuesday’s damaging tremor in Christchurch is almost certainly related to the much more energetic event that hit the region last September. But whereas last year’s quake caused relatively little damage and no deaths, the natural disaster that struck the city on 22 February looks set to go down in the record books as one [...]
Posted by uspostWorldWednesday, December 29th, 2010
A day after a chair lift at a popular Maine resort failed, plunging five lift cars and their riders onto the slope below, authorities are investigating whether a wind gust or a mechanical glitch caused the incident. There were about 150 skiers on Sugarloaf’s Spillway East lift when it malfunctioned, according to the resort’s spokesman, [...]
A day that began with authorities confirming Lindsay Lohan was being investigated for battery on a female staffer at a rehab facility where Lohan is getting treatment, ended with the worker getting fired after giving an interview about it. Lindsay is squarely disputing the story chemical dependency technician Dawn Holland told TMZ … that Lindsay [...]
Authorities and residents were bracing for flooding, thunderstorms, hail, tidal surges and even small tornadoes Wednesday as the worst of a seven-day series of storms was expected to sweep into Southern California. Wednesday’s storm was projected to be the most intense of the week, the result of a powerful, cold storm from the Gulf of [...]
A tour bus veered off an icy mountain highway in central Colorado late Saturday, crashing on its side and injuring 8 people, 2 of them seriously, authorities said. The bus was carrying 46 people en route to a winter resort town when the accident occurred about 8:20 p.m. MST on Highway 114, about eight miles [...]