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Guys. Already it is looking busy. We have had some accidents not weather related at that pint but some of those are cleared but any you now we are seeing more accidents pop up. Not only are we talking about the wintry mix that katie will talk about but also, all of the parade stuff. Yes, busy. I feel for the crews in the mess trying to set up that parade. Bravo to you. There are a few breaks. They are probably already out there trying to get things going and there will be one break that takes pl...

Workers are still removing pieces of the Key Bridge from Baltimore Harbor, but the fight over who will pay to replace it has already begun. Past accidents offer some clues about how it could play out.

Workers are still removing pieces of the Key Bridge from Baltimore Harbor, but the fight over who will pay to replace it has already begun. Past accidents offer some clues about how it could play out.

Robert Raiola, a senior underwater bridge inspector for FDOT in 1980, dove into the water to rescue people after the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapsed in Tampa Bay.

The collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge is shocking—but not unprecedented

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning over Baltimore's Patapsco River, where six people remain missing, is drawing tragic comparisons to a similar bridge collapse in Florida, 44 years ago.

The collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge this week spurred recollections of the 1980 Sunshine Skyway tragedy.

On Tuesday the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore crumbled into the water after being struck by a ship, much like bridges in Georgia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma, which met the same fate.

The original Sunshine Skyway Bridge, which collapsed in 1980, opened just a few years before the Francis Scott Key Bridge.

When Paul Tash, former chairman and CEO of Times Publishing Co., heard the news Tuesday morning about a cargo ship striking the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, it took him right back to May 9, 1980 — the day the Sunshine Skyway Bridge collapsed. Then a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times, Tash was sent out to cover the story as it was breaking. A freighter slammed into the southbound ...