The collapse of the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis was caused a design flaw that led to the bridge not being able to take the weight of concentrated construction loads on the bridge, exacerbated by ...

The Interstate 35W bridge across the Mississippi River linked the north and south of Minneapolis for decades until its collapse on Aug. 1, 2007, killed 13 people, injured 150 and ignited a national ...

ST. PAUL - Eight weeks after the collapse of the Minneapolis freeway bridge and with no agreement to pump more money into the state's transportation system, Democratic lawmakers said Wednesday that it ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mark Dayton has ordered U.S. and Minnesota flags lowered Monday on the fourth anniversary of the I-35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis. Dayton has set aside the day to honor and ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Certain images will be indelibly linked to the Interstate 35W bridge disaster: Mangled green steel beams, giant concrete slabs that seem to float on the Mississippi River, a ...

MINNEAPOLIS – It was another perfect summer day – so similar to and yet so different from that day a year ago when the Minneapolis freeway bridge fell. On Aug. 1, 2007, there were crashing and panic ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Motorists can begin driving across the new Interstate 35W bridge at 5 a.m. Thursday, just over a year after the old one tragically collapsed into the Mississippi River and cut off a ...