Police pull protesters out of trees to be felled for Dresden bridge...

AP Worldstream;  January 15, 2008 ;     353 words ......activists from a 200-year-old beech tree on Tuesday just after midnight...clearing the land to build a bridge that has raised the ire of...meter-high (65-foot-high) beech tree and three in a nearby linden...four-lane Waldschloesschen bridge. It was the latest in a ...

Beech Tree Labs' ML-05 Addresses External and Internal Scars.

Business Wire;  February 28, 2007 ;     343 words ...PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Beech Tree Labs, Inc., announced today that...gene array experiments performed at Beech Tree Labs, ML-05 was found to directly...in various horse breeds continues. Beech Tree Labs, a private company, is a leader...

Minn. Bridge Similar to I-35W Closed

AP Online;  March 21, 2008 ;     479 words ... A bridge over the Mississippi River northwest of...played a key role in last summer's deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Inspectors found...connect the girders of the Highway 23 bridge at St. Cloud. Transportation officials...

New Minneapolis bridge practical, not flashy

AP Online;  September 14, 2008 ;     556 words ...The new Interstate 35W bridge, replacing one whose deadly collapse...an opportunity to build a signature bridge, and we didn't take it, said Jerry Foss...lives nearby. They chose an average bridge, and we got an average bridge. Government...

7 Killed in Minneapolis Bridge Collapse

AP Online;  August 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ...MINNEAPOLIS - An interstate bridge jammed with rush-hour traffic suddenly...people. The eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, was in...each direction were closed when the bridge buckled. "There were two lanes of traffic...

Beech tree to be axed.

Sussex Express Series (Lewes, England);  October 23, 2007 ;     192 words ...A large and imposing Beech tree, located at the eastern gable end...arrangements to get the diseased beech tree removed as soon as reasonably practicable...character of the area. The Copper Beech tree located at the front of the Church...

Bridge Falls Into Mississippi River

AP Online;  August 2, 2007 ;     662 words ...MINNEAPOLIS - An interstate bridge jammed with rush-hour traffic suddenly...people. The eight-lane Interstate 35W bridge, a major Minneapolis artery, was in...earthquake!' and then we realized the bridge was collapsing." Mayor R.T. Rybak said...

Rhubarb Bridge may be demolished.

Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England);  June 16, 2008 ;     527 words ...A CITY bridge deemed unsafe in the hours of darkness could be demolished in the next year. Rhubarb Bridge, which runs over the A47 parkway on Bourges...money received from central government for bridge repairs and maintenance, which will be...

New highway bridge in Minneapolis opens

AP Worldstream;  September 18, 2008 ;     551 words ...The new U.S. highway bridge opened in Minneapolis on Thursday, a...highway trucks led motorists across the bridge in both directions shortly after 5 a...and buses started streaming across the bridge. Vehicles moved slowly at first, but...

N. Main bridge in need of repair; Work could take year or more.(LOCAL...

Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA);  July 6, 2007 ;     485 words ......Barnes TEMPLETON - The North Main Street bridge, destroyed by the 1938 flood and hurricane...repairs that could take a year or two. The bridge in East Templeton is slated for replacement...released from the pond washed out that bridge and swept away several factories in its...

Sort out swing bridge.

Whitby Gazette (Whitby, England);  November 17, 2006 ;     361 words ...URGENT repairs are needed to Whitby's swing bridge or the east and west sides of town could...Tourism Association fears the 97-year-old bridge, which members describe as the lifeblood...sterling]350,000 refurbishment of the bridge was carried out by Qualterhall Ltd of...

Building a bridge from yesteryear: in this historic restoration, the...

Public Roads;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......construction crews removed the old Goshen Bridge's last truss in October 2001, it was an odd sight indeed. The historic bridge had carried State Route 746 over the...western Virginia town could remember. The bridge's absence was only temporary--by July...

Design Flaw Cited in Bridge Collapse

AP Online;  January 15, 2008 ;     582 words ...Undersized gusset plates in the Interstate 35-W bridge in Minneapolis were the critical factor in the bridge collapse last year that killed 13 people...found 16 fractured gusset plates from the bridge's center span, he said. It is the undersizing...

Youngsters shine for 'Bridge A.

Harrogate Advertiser (Harrogate, England);  May 5, 2006 ;     488 words ......looking bright at Boroughbridge after 'Bridge's third-stringers saw off Empress 3-2...up by Ollie Bone. Johnny Brear then put Bridge in an apparently unassailable position...it 3-2. Dan Cooke and Ross Mardon were Bridge's other debutants while Garry Watts made...

New interstate bridge in Minneapolis opens

AP Online;  September 18, 2008 ;     700+ words ...The new Interstate 35W bridge is open in Minneapolis, a little more...highway trucks led motorists across the bridge in both directions shortly after 5 a...and buses started streaming across the bridge. Vehicles moved slowly at first, but...