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Possible sinkhole disrupts Florida families near where man died
A possible sinkhole has forced two Florida families from their homes, officials said, in the latest example of the geological phenomenon that has frequently struck the Sunshine State. About 5 p.m. Tuesday, an emergency telephone call to Hillsborough...
Tags: Television Industry, Hillsborough County, American Red Cross, Television Stations
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Golfer is swallowed by 18-foot-deep sinkhole in middle of fairway
Note to Mark Mihal: That's not what they mean by a hole in one. Mihal was playing golf with some friends at Annbriar Golf Course in Waterloo, Ill., on Monday. On the 14th fairway, Mihal was trying to gauge the distance from his ball to the hole when a...
Tags: Golf, Sports
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Pictures in the News | March 5, 2013
FrameworkIn Tuesday's Pictures in the News: Kenyan men watch early election results on a television in the Kibera slum of Nairobi as the nation held its first presidential election since 2007 (more photos); a fire burns at Naples' museum park; workers remove... -
Florida sinkhole visible after victim's home demolished
Demolition crews in Seffner, Fla., on Monday knocked down walls of the house where Jeff Bush, 37, was living before a sinkhole swallowed his bedroom on Thursday night. The hole was not visible outside the home before an 80-foot excavation arm knocked...
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Demolition begins on Florida home partially swallowed by sinkhole
A demolition team is reluctantly finishing what a Florida sinkhole started. For a couple of hours Sunday, workers in Hillsborough County started the somber process of knocking down the remains of a home that was partially swallowed in a sinkhole on...
Tags: Hillsborough County
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Florida sinkhole: Neighboring home 'compromised'
The sinkhole that opened underneath a Florida house, pulling into it a man who officials fear is dead, has compromised the house next door, officials said Saturday. Officials planned to let family members, accompanied by firefighters, into the...
Tags: Hillsborough County, Tampa
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Florida man presumed dead after sinkhole swallows his bedroom
A Florida man who was in his bedroom late Thursday night is presumed dead, swallowed by a sinkhole that opened beneath his Tampa-area home, officials said. The man, identified as Jeff Bush, 36, was in his bedroom when the sinkhole opened up. Bush...
Tags: Hillsborough County, Tampa
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Florida sinkhole that swallowed man continues to deepen
The sinkhole that opened under a Florida home Thursday night, swallowing a man in his bed, continued to grow Friday evening, officials said. “The hole has gotten deeper,” geotechnical engineer Larry Madrid said at a press conference...
Tags: Hillsborough County, Science and Technology, Tampa
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Bus briefly stuck in sinkhole in Oceanside
L.A. NOWA bus in Oceanside was trapped briefly in a sinkhole caused by a water main break Wednesday morning. The front wheels of the bus sank into the hole as the driver sat alone in the bus around 7 a.m. Water...... -
Shopping cart is dropped four stories -- onto N.Y. woman's head
Nation NowNew York police say two 12-year-olds were horsing around this weekend when they tossed a shopping cart over a shopping center walkway in Harlem, dropping it four stories onto a woman's head.... -
New York man, 80, swallowed by sinkhole outside his front door
Nation NowSinkhole swallows up 80-year-old Oceanside, N.Y. man right outside his front door. He emerges unscathed.... -
President Obama implies he will rule on Keystone XL pipeline
Nation NowPresident Obama inserted himself into the increasingly contentious fight over building the Keystone XL pipeline from Canada to the U.S. Gulf Coast, implying in a television interview that the ultimate decision about the pipeline’s fate would be his....
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