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Jon Bon Jovi, pictured at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York on Sunday, is credited with helping save a woman's life on a Nashville bridge just days later.

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Jon Bon Jovi helps talk a woman off the ledge of a bridge while filming a music video

Bon Jovi spotted a woman on the ledge of the pedestrian bridge where his crew was filming in Nashville late Tuesday. The singer and a team member helped her over the railing and back to safety.

September 12, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
A map of detour from closed Chatham Parkway bridge

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I-16 westbound at Chatham Parkway closed until Monday

The Georgia Department of Transportation said Thursday, July 11, that westbound lanes on Interstate 16 at Savannah's Chatham Parkway overpass will be closed through the weekend. 

July 12, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
Workers survey the site where a barge crashed into the Pelican Island Bridge, on Wednesday in Galveston, Texas.

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Barge hits bridge connecting Galveston and Pelican Island, causing oil to spill

The collision's impact sent pieces of the bridge, which connects Galveston to Pelican Island, tumbling on top of the barge and shut down a stretch of waterway so crews could clean up the spill.

May 16, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Explosive charges are detonated to bring down sections of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge resting on the container ship Dali on Monday in Baltimore.

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  • National

Collapsed Baltimore bridge span comes down with a boom

The detonation marked a major step in freeing the Dali, which has been stuck among the wreckage since it crashed into one of the bridge's support columns shortly after leaving Baltimore on March 26.

May 14, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Map of the detour route at North Druid Hills Road.

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  • News

90-day detour at North Druid Hills and I-85 begins April 26

Access from North Druid Hills Road to Buford Highway and I-85 is taking a major turn this week as the Peachtree Creek bridge closes on Friday, April 26, for 90 days, according to the Georgia Department of Transportation.

April 24, 2024
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  • Logan Ritchie
The Betsy Ross Bridge in Philadelphia is a continuous truss bridge like the Francis Scott Key Bridge. It also has four dolphins around it.

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  • Investigations

Concrete structures meant to protect Baltimore bridge appear unchanged for decades

Experts said if the Key Bridge had been fitted with more robust collision-prevention structures, the collapse might have been avoided. Records indicate the protections weren't significantly altered.

April 04, 2024
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  • Chiara Eisner and
  • Caitlin Thompson
A container ship rests against wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge as night falls on Tuesday, as seen from Sparrows Point, Md.

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  • National

What we know and don't know about Baltimore's Key Bridge collapse

Rescue efforts have turned to recovery after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore. A federal investigation is underway as the region braces for a long and costly reconstruction.

March 27, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie and
  • Joel Rose
A collapsed section of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore is seen in the waters of the Patapsco River. The bridge collapsed early Tuesday after it was struck by a<strong> </strong>984-foot-long cargo ship.

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The Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore collapses after a ship crashed into it

A Baltimore bridge serving as a vital highway artery collapsed early Tuesday after a nearly 1,000-foot-long container ship crashed into it, sending several people into the frigid water below.

March 26, 2024
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  • Jason Breslow,
  • Rachel Treisman,
  • and 2 more
Cheshire Bridge road is closed again after a fire broke out damaging the structure for the second time in two years.

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Cheshire Bridge fire repairs could take 10 weeks

Atlanta officials are saying repairs could take 10 weeks to complete after a fire damaged the city’s Cheshire Bridge in December.

January 05, 2024
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  • Amanda Andrews
A map of a detour route around a closed bridge

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Mt. Vernon Highway bridge closed until summer 2024 after truck crash; driver gets multiple citations

The Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT) will not reopen the Mount Vernon Highway Bridge over I-285 after a traffic accident damaged it Wednesday.

September 29, 2023
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  • Bob Pepalis and
  • Collin Kelley
This photo released by Ostorozhno Novosti on Monday, July 17, 2023, reportedly shows damaged parts of an automobile link of the Crimean Bridge connecting Russian mainland and Crimean peninsula over the Kerch Strait not far from Kerch, Crimea.

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  • Europe

Explosions disrupt traffic on a key bridge from Crimea to Russia's mainland

Traffic on a key bridge connecting Crimea to Russia's mainland was disrupted Monday after one of its sections was blown up in what Russian officials said was a Ukrainian attack that killed two.

July 17, 2023
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  • Charles Maynes
Talmadge Bridge in Savannah

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Talmadge Bridge project in Savannah gets green light

The Georgia Department of Transportation is moving forward with a plan to replace the cables on the Talmadge Bridge in Savannah and raise the structure to more easily accommodate cargo ships calling at the Port of Savannah.

January 23, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, rescuers work at the scene of a building damaged by shelling in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022.

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  • World

Russians barrage Ukrainian town after bridge explosion

A Russian barrage pounded apartment buildings and other targets in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, killing at least 17 people and wounding dozens, officials said Sunday.

October 09, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
The Houlihan Bridge in Port Wentworth, built in 1922 and slated for replacement, is Georgia’s last remaining swing-style bridge.

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  • News

Wanted: New homes for historic bridges

The Georgia Department of Transportation is trying to find homes for historic bridges that have outlived their usefulness and need to be replaced.

September 08, 2022
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  • Dave Williams
The almost 40-foot 3D-printed pedestrian bridge designed by Joris Laarman and built by Dutch robotics company MX3D has been opened in Amsterdam six years after the project was launched. The bridge, which was fabricated from stainless steel rods by six-axis robotic arms equipped with welding gear, spans the Oudezijds Achterburgwal in Amsterdam's Red Light District.

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  • Architecture

Check Out The First 3D-Printed Steel Bridge Recently Unveiled In Europe

The almost 40-foot bridge, revealed last month, will now serve pedestrians and cyclists in Amsterdam's city center.

August 27, 2021
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  • Jonathan Franklin

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