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The Baltimore collapse focused attention on vital bridges. Thousands are in poor shape across the US 03/30/2024 11:09am • After a yearlong closure, a bridge over the Puyallup River reopened in 2019 with a sturdy new span and a brand new name. It even won a national award. But today, the Fishing Wars Memorial Bridge is closed again after federal officials raised concerns about a vintage section of the nearly century-old A man suspected of holding 4 hostages for hours in a Dutch nightclub has been arrested 03/30/2024 09:41am • EDE, Netherlands (AP) ��� Dutch police detained a man Saturday after he left a nightclub where four people had been held hostage for hours, bringing a peaceful end to a tense standoff. ���We are exceptionally happy that it ended this way. That the victims came out safely and that we were able to arr Who wouldn't like prices to start falling? Careful what you wish for, economists say 03/30/2024 07:12am • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Many Americans are in a sour mood about the economy for one main reason: Prices feel too high. Maybe they're not rising as fast as they had been, but average prices are still painfully above where they were three years ago. And they're mostly heading higher still. Consider a 2-l As cranes arrive at Baltimore bridge collapse site, governor describes daunting task of cleaning up 03/29/2024 08:21pm • BALTIMORE (AP) ��� A crane that can lift 1,000 tons, described as one of the largest on the Eastern Seaboard, appeared near the site of a collapsed highway bridge in Baltimore as crews prepared Friday to begin clearing wreckage that has stymied the search for four workers missing and presumed dead a Police ID suspects who they say tried to rob Prince George���s Co. GameStop before detectives intervened 03/29/2024 07:01pm • Prince George's County police have identified the three men accused of trying to rob a GameStop on Thursday, before police intervened and shot one of the suspects. Kanard Bishop, 26, Edward Leroy Brown, 24, and Kahlill Boyd, 18, all of D.C., face armed robbery and other charges, police said in a UNLV releases video of campus shooter killed by police after 3 professors shot dead 03/29/2024 06:44pm • LAS VEGAS (AP) ��� Images of a campus police officer diving behind a patrol vehicle to escape gunfire and then fatally shooting a gunman outside a building at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, are among footage in newly released video of a deadly rampage that left three professors dead and a four Majority of U.S. bridges lack impact protection. Will anything change? 03/29/2024 06:35pm • ▶ Watch Video: Work begins to reopen Port of Baltimore after Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse In the wake of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which plunged into the Patapsco River in Maryland after the cargo ship Dali slammed into one of its support columns, CBS News has California governor to deploy 500 surveillance cameras to Oakland to fight crime 03/29/2024 05:42pm • OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) ��� Hundreds of high-tech surveillance cameras are being installed in the city of Oakland and surrounding freeways to battle crime, California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday. Newsom, a Democrat, said in a news release that the California Highway Patrol has contracted with Fl Former US Sen. Joe Lieberman remembered as 'mensch' who bridged political divides 03/29/2024 05:41pm • STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) ��� The late Joe Lieberman on Friday was remembered by political allies and even a former foe as a ���mensch��� who both bridged and defied partisan political divides, during a funeral service for the four-term U.S. senator. Former Vice President Al Gore, who ran for president o Louis Gossett Jr., 1st Black man to win supporting actor Oscar, dies at 87 03/29/2024 04:23pm • LOS ANGELES (AP) ��� Louis Gossett Jr., the first Black man to win a supporting actor Oscar and an Emmy winner for his role in the seminal TV miniseries ���Roots,��� has died. He was 87. Gossett's first cousin Neal L. Gossett told The Associated Press that the actor died in Santa Monica, California. USC's JuJu Watkins is in the March Madness spotlight ahead of Sweet 16 against Baylor 03/29/2024 04:02pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) ��� For USC coach Lindsay Gottlieb, the JuJu Watkins phenomenon became plainly evident on a road trip this season when a quick autograph session snowballed. After a game in Colorado, the Trojans noticed a young autograph seeker waiting outside the team bus. Watkins was asked to o Strange sight: Fake money flies around Maryland highway 03/29/2024 01:49pm • Drivers in Charles County, Maryland, were treated to an odd sight Friday morning: What looked like a large amount of money flying around the middle of a busy roadway in Waldorf ��� and it ended up sparking several calls to authorities. The reporters in the WTOP Traffic Center are used to call The Baltimore bridge collapse is an immigration story 03/29/2024 01:25pm • In "A Day Without a Mexican," a mock 2004 documentary from filmmaker Sergio Arau, Californians wake up and discover that all of the state's Mexican immigrants have vanished into thin air. Panic sets in, and the economy teeters, when there are no more produce pickers or gardeners, no more construc EPA sets strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses in bid to fight climate change 03/29/2024 01:13pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday set strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks, buses and other large vehicles, an action that officials said will help clean up some of the nation's largest sources of planet-warming greenhouse gases. The new rules, which take New Jersey father charged after 9-year-old son's body found in burning car 03/29/2024 01:11pm • SAYREVILLE, N.J. (AP) ��� A 9-year-old boy was found dead inside a burning car after his father doused the vehicle with gasoline and set it on fire at a New Jersey high school following a domestic dispute at their family home, authorities said. Manuel Rivers, 43, of Sayreville was charged with aggra