Structural Collapses

AP Source: Crane co. owner expected to face manslaughter charges in NYC collapse that killed 2. A crane company owner is expected to be charged with manslaughter in a 2008 accident that killed two workers as the top of a 200-foot-tall crane crashed down, a person with knowledge of the investigation said Friday.

Blast from explosives hidden in basement brings down building in Yemen, killing at least 8. Security officials in southern Yemen say a three-story building collapsed when explosives stored in its basement went off, killing at least eight people.

Dynamite stored in an apartment block in the south Yemen town of Taiz exploded early Tuesday, bringing down the building and killing at least 12 people, a medical official said.

Turkish government lowers death toll in mine collapse to 13. The government on Wednesday said 13 workers were killed in a coal mine collapse in northwestern Turkey, not 17 as previously reported.

2 civilian construction workers hurt in ceiling collapse at Mass. military base. An Army National Guard spokesman says two civilian construction workers were injured when a bathroom ceiling in an unoccupied barracks building fell on them.

Pa. ice rink's roof partially collapses during youth hockey tournament, but no one injured. The roof of a skating rink partially collapsed while the ice was being resurfaced during a youth hockey tournament Sunday afternoon, but no one was injured.

Director: People unaccounted for after partial roof collapse at suburban Pittsburgh ice rink. An emergency official says there are people unaccounted for following a partial roof collapse at a suburban Pittsburgh ice rink.

Director: People unaccounted for after partial roof collapse at suburban Pittsburgh ice rink. An emergency official says there are people unaccounted for following a partial roof collapse at a suburban Pittsburgh ice rink.

Haiti raises estimate of earthquake's death toll to 230,000 _ on par with 2004 Asian tsunami. Haiti's government has raised the death toll for the Jan. 12 earthquake to 230,000 from 212,000 and says more bodies remain uncounted.

Delayed dream comes true as widow of Minn. bridge collapse victim adopts twin Haitian toddlers. Betsy Sathers wears the glow of a new mother as she perches on the couch in her family room, smiling and chatting with visitors while still managing to keep an eye on the 2-year-old twins burbling and cavorting at her feet.

PETIONVILLE, Haiti - Days after the powerful earthquake, the wide-screen TVs still flashed inside the exclusive walled estates high on a verdant hill in this suburb. Servants poured espresso into fine china, delivered glasses of water on silver trays, and tapped cupboards filled with enough vegetables and pasta to last for weeks. The eerie calm contrasted sharply with the devastation a few miles below in Port-au-Prince, a hot, dusty swath of collapsed buildings where hundreds of people scoured the rubble for food or gulped water from busted pipes. Though the 7.0-magnitude quake left the rich and the poor mourning the dead, the cavernous gap in incomes in Haiti is even more pro nounced in the aftermath. In the frantic days after the Jan. 12 quake, the wealthy spirited their loved ones overseas in private planes, sought refuge in armed compounds powered by generators, and even ordered pizza and surfed the Internet. ``In every country there are differences, but here in Haiti it's much mor

Death toll rises to 11 in Belgian apartment building collapse; Only 3 victims identified. Searchers pulled two more bodies from the rubble of a collapsed apartment block in this Belgian city, raising to 11 the death toll from what is believed to have been a gas explosion.

Refusing to give up hope as they race against time and terrifying aftershocks, rescue teams scouring Haiti's earthquake-hit capital are rewarded with small miracles.

UN: Over 70 people have been rescued from rubble of Haitian quake, search for more continues. A U.N. spokeswoman says rescue workers have saved more than 70 people from the rubble of Haiti's earthquake.

NYC crews sent to Haiti on search-and-rescue draw on 9/11 experience digging through rubble. When the twin towers came down on Sept. 11, 2001, deputy police inspector Robert Lukach was there, working on the pile, digging through the rubble for survivors.

Dazed survivors wandered past dead bodies in rubble-strewn streets Wednesday, crying for loved ones, and rescuers desperately searched collapsed buildings as fear rose that the death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake could reach into the tens of thousands.

Dazed survivors wandered past dead bodies in rubble-strewn streets Wednesday, crying for loved ones, and rescuers desperately searched collapsed buildings as fear rose that the death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake could reach into the tens of thousands.

Dazed survivors wandered past dead bodies in rubble-strewn streets Wednesday, crying for loved ones, and rescuers desperately searched collapsed buildings as fear rose that the death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake could reach into the tens of thousands.

Dazed survivors wandered past dead bodies in rubble-strewn streets Wednesday, crying for loved ones, and rescuers desperately searched collapsed buildings as fear rose that the death toll from Haiti's devastating earthquake could reach into the tens of thousands.

An abandoned mine in southeastern Democratic Republic of Congo collapsed killing eight members of one family including five children, a local government official said Monday.