Disasters

URS says it didn't know I-35W bridge would fall
An engineering company that consulted on the Interstate 35W bridge in Minneapolis said Thursday it should not have to pay punitive damages because it didn't know about the design flaw that caused the bridge to collapse in 2007, killing 13 people and injuring 145.
The earthquake that rattled through Southern California with only minor damage and no injuries came as no surprise to seismologists.
The Minnesota State Patrol says the two people killed in an Otter Tail County crash were a 9-year-old girl and 32-year-old Evansville man.
Oil hits all Gulf states; Texas tar balls found
More than two months after oil gushing from a blown-out well on the ocean floor first reached Louisiana, the relentless spread of crude has now washed up on every Gulf state after a bucket's worth of tar balls hit a Texas beach.