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Golden Gate Bridge: 75 years
San Jose Mercury News
When it opened May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge provided the country -- weary from the Great Depression and worried about rising talk of war -- with one final, majestic projection of its Manifest Destiny. Here was a bridge not just for transport, ...

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CBS2 Chicago
Girl, 11, drowns while playing on bridge in Bolingbrook
Chicago Tribune
... when the 11-year-old struggled after her second jump and drowned, police said today. Jordan and about six boys and girls had decided to go "bridge jumping" Thursday evening in the pond at Indian Chase Meadows Park behind Pioneer Elementary School, ...
11-year-old girl dies after being pulled from Bolingbrook pondTribLocal
Girl, 11, Dies After Being Pulled From Bolingbrook PondCBS2 Chicago

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Fairfield Police Rescue Autistic Man Who Jumps into River
Patch.com
By Michael Dinan and Chandra Johnson Greene Fairfield police say that on Saturday they pulled from the water in Southport a 19-year-old autistic man who had been reported missing and jumped off of Harbor Road Bridge. Patrol and dive team officers ...
Fairfield Police officers make heroic water rescue of an autistic boyMinuteman News Center

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The Dominion Post
Father's body pulled from harbour
The Dominion Post
RECOVERY TEAM: Police divers at Mangere Bridge prepare to search for the body of So'saia Paasi. WAITING FOR NEWS: Latu Paasi is comforted as she awaits news at Mangere Bridge. LATEST: Police divers have found the body of 45-year-old father So'saia ...

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Daily Mail
Bolingbrook drowning victim, 11, remembered as 'a sweet angel'
Joliet Herald News
Bolingbrook police say Oliver was part of a group of about six boys and girls who were going “bridge jumping” Tuesday. They climbed onto the side of the bridge, holding onto the iron side rails, then jumped off into the pond. Oliver jumped in once and ...
Police: Girl, 11, drowns in Bolingbrook pondChicago Sun-Times
Autopsy Today for Girl Pulled From PondNBC Chicago

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Check List of Road Closings Before Commuting
Patch.com
Here's the list: Alcovy Road from Campbell Road to West Drowning Creek Road will require intermittent lane closure through December 2012 for roadway improvements associated with Sugarloaf Parkway extension, weather permitting. Any such closures will be ...

WFMY News 2
Man Drowns In Rockingham County, Saves 2
WFMY News 2
Madison, NC -- Authorities tell News 2 a 20-year-old man who jumped into the water to save two others from drowning, has died. First responders were called to a possible drowning Thursday evening at the Dam of the Dan River, just off Lindsay Bridge ...
Drowning in MadisonGoDanRiver.com

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Wall Street Journal
New York's Last Cross-Harbor Railway Chugs On as Alternative to Trucks
Wall Street Journal
NYNJR operations chief Jim Christie on the float bridge in Jersey City. Then came new superhighways and trucks, trucks, trucks: Now all but 2% of the stuff New York imports rolls into town on rubber wheels. And nine-tenths of it crosses the Hudson on ...