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Good morning Memphis, where the Grizzlies beat Mike Conley  and the Utah Jazz to open the first round of the NBA Playoffs and golf fans are in awe as Phil Mickelson became the oldest man to win a major golf championship. But first, with the Hernando de Soto bridge still closed and additional evidence shows the crack might have existed as early as 2016, the question of accountability remains. Frazier said it was "unsafe to run the under-bridge unit" which is why the crack was missed. The Commercial Appeal obtained the records of his firing through a public records request. And in this column,...

Mon May 17, 2021 - Southeast Edition CEG A crack in a steel beam has forced the closure of the Interstate 40 bridge that connects Arkansas and Tennessee. During a routine inspection of a key interstate bridge over the Mississippi River on May 11, an Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) engineer spotted a fractured beam on the structure that led him to immediately make an urgent 911 call. "We need to get people off the bridge immediately," he warned. The frantic call led to the bridge's immediate shutdown to avert a potential disaster. The discovery of the crack has prompted what of...

View Comments When a broken beam was discovered Tuesday on the Interstate 40 bridge over the Mississippi River at Memphis, officials soon began diverting traffic to the other major bridge crossing in the area, the Interstate 55 bridge known to many Memphians as "the old bridge." It's formally known as the Memphis-Arkansas Bridge. With so much more traffic going over the I-55 bridge, what do we know about its condition? An August 2020 inspection report offers some answers. The report lists the bridge's construction date as 1949 and gives it a structural evaluation of "five" on a scale of ze...

View Comments Britain has made the month of May this year particularly important in political and electoral terms. Thanks to a combination of public health challenges, and political party changes, local and regional elections assume greater than usual importance. In the elections just held, including English local councils and regional assemblies in Scotland and Wales, the Conservative Party emerged as the overall winner in national terms. Some media and political analysts focus on this point, but actually, the election results are complex, with other parties making gains. The nation’s Cons...

Meanwhile, a Twitter user by the name of David Manasco posted photos allegedly taken in 2019 that show what appears to be a significant fracture in the same location as the photos presented by the Tennessee Department of Transportation Wednesday.  ARDOT has not commented on Manasco's photo. Metadata from Manasco's photo indicates his photos were taken on July 31, 2019. September 2020 inspection report didn't mention any crack at this spot One of the last major inspections of the bridge came on September 1, 2020. The inspection report doesn’t seem to mention any problems at the spot where...