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One person was killed when a Toronto stage collapsed before sold-out Radiohead concert.
Crew members ran for their lives when overhanging metalwork crashed onto a stage in a Toronto park Saturday afternoon, pinning and killing one man, authorities said.
Mary Kennedy, from whom Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed for divorce in 2010, is dead, an employee of the Westchester County, New York, medical examiner's office said Wednesday.
Investigators say country band Sugarland will not be fined for the stage collapse at the 2011 Indiana State Fair.
Jennifer Nettles, half of the country music duo Sugarland, said she was never asked to delay the band's show at the Indiana State Fair because of an approaching storm.
Emergency responders call for help after a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair in August.
Scaffolding that collapsed during a storm and killed seven people during the Indiana State Fair last year was not up to standard, and the fair's commission did not have adequate emergency planning in place, according to two investigative reports presented Thursday.
Attorneys for country duo Sugarland say some concertgoers' injuries from a deadly stage collapse last year at an Indiana State Fair were "their own fault" and they "failed to exercise due care for their own safety," according to court documents.
Indiana workplace safety regulators will meet with representatives of the Indiana State Fair sometime in the next two weeks to discuss safety improvements in the wake of last August's fatal stage collapse just before a Sugarland concert, a Department of Labor spokesman said Friday.
The Indiana Department of Labor on Wednesday announced penalties totaling $80,800 following a worker-safety investigation into a stage collapse last summer that fatally injured seven people and injured dozens of others before a scheduled concert at the Indiana State Fair.
Authorities in Indiana have charged two women who are accused of falsifying hospital records to collect money intended for victims of the Indiana State Fair stage collapse.
The families of seven people killed and 61 survivors injured when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair in August are being offered a total of $5 million by Indiana's attorney general.
North Carolina public health officials revised Monday the number of confirmed and suspected cases of E. coli infection in an outbreak that appears to be linked to the state fair.
Ten cases of E. coli infection have been confirmed and another 16 cases are under investigation in what may be a growing disease outbreak that appears to be linked to the North Carolina State Fair, state public health officials said Friday.
Public health officials in North Carolina said Thursday eight cases of E. coli have been confirmed in the state, and 13 possible cases are being investigated in what they believe might be a growing outbreak.
The band will collect donations for those killed and injured during a stage collapse this summer
A woman whose same-sex partner was killed in last month's stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair joined a personal injury attorney in pushing a federal lawsuit against the state of Indiana on behalf of those injured and the families of those killed.
There's a good party atmosphere on Notting Hill's streets for day one of the annual Carnival.
Police in London are lining up a huge police operation for the Notting Hill Carnival in the wake of the rioting and looting that hit the city earlier this month.
A 24-year-old woman who was injured in a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair this month has died, authorities said Tuesday.
New video shows officials at the Indiana State Fair warning crowds of bad weather just prior to the stage collapsing.
A 24-year-old woman who was injured in a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair this month remained on life support Monday, according to the Marion County Coroner's Office.
CNN's Max Foster examines the use of technology and social media by all sides in the UK riots.
This summer Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has wrestled with one of his biggest challenges since taking office five years ago.
A sixth person has died of injuries suffered when a stage collapsed at the Indiana State Fair on Saturday, state police said Friday.
Country music duo Sugarland called for a moment of silence to honor those who died when a stage collapsed in Indiana.
The country duo Sugarland is planning a private memorial in Indiana to honor the five fans who were killed Saturday night when a stage collapsed during a storm, the musicians said Tuesday.
The Indiana State Fair Commission is hiring New York-based engineering company Thornton Tomasetti Inc. to investigate Saturday's deadly stage collapse, officials said Tuesday.
Indiana's governor leads a memorial service for victims of stage collapse at a Sugarland concert.
Family and friends of the people killed when a concert stage collapsed paused to remember their loved ones Monday, as officials began tackling the question on many people's minds: Was anyone at fault?
At least five people are dead and dozens more injured after a stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair. Barbara Hall reports
As a colleague and as a friend, Christina Santiago always had a way of bringing people together.
Photographer Ivan Gratz talks about the video he shot of spontaneous rescue efforts at the Indiana State Fair.
Concertgoers at the Indiana State Fair panicked and fled in the immediate aftermath of the concert stage collapse. But just as quickly, they returned, offering what they could during the moments that mattered.
Crews on Sunday sifted through debris of a concert stage that collapsed at the Indiana State Fair, trying to determine what caused the accident that killed five people and injured 40, authorities said.
A second death in Dallas may be linked to a rave last weekend that ended in chaos, police said.
A 19-year-old man died in Dallas after an overnight rave party ended in chaos, a Texas fire official said.
Designer Thomas Heatherwick talks about form, function and his "hairy building" that stood out at the 2010 World Expo.
When Thomas Heatherwick competed to design the UK pavilion at the Shanghai World Expo, he was sure about one thing: His team wasn't going to showcase "the same cheesy adverts for Britain and promote some silly stereotypes of Britain as fog and rain and Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter and Beefeaters and phone boxes."
Architect Minsuk Cho designed the South Korean pavilion at the Shanghai Expo.
Contemporary and often abstract, Minsuk Cho's buildings can baffle, delight and dazzle.
Blaming the state's uncertain financial outlook, the California State University's board of trustees approved Wednesday a mid-year tuition increase of 5 percent for this academic year and a 10 percent increase for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Parades and performances marked the final day of the Shanghai World Expo on Sunday, according to China's official Xinhua News Agency.
A driverless van has completed the longest-ever trip by an unmanned vehicle, beginning in Italy and arriving in China, covering 13,000 kilometers (8,077 miles), researchers said.
If you visited the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai you'll know that the whole experience was one of those "only in China" gobsmacking superlatives. More than 60 million -- 60 million -- people visited the largest Expo site ever, with a one-day record on Sept. 23 of more than 631,000.
Attendance has passed 70 million at the Shanghai Expo, setting a record for world's fairs, organizers said Monday.
Which football team has the best record in one of Europe's elite leagues? Well it isn't Barcelona or Real Madrid, Manchester United or Chelsea, or even one of the Milan giants.
It's 3 p.m. on a busy weekday afternoon at the Minnesota State Fair in St. Paul.
CNN's Gary Tuchman takes an inside look at the campaign of Rep. Michele Bachmann.
CNN's Emily Chang reports on the latest trend in pet fashion in China, dyeing pets to look like wild animals.
His name is Kung Fu, and he has become a celebrity pet in one Beijing neighborhood. He looks like a panda, and he is named after a panda -- but he is actually a dog with a dye job.
The wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces a court date next week on a drunk driving charge, the latest in a string of events that began when Kennedy filed for divorce, according to records from Westchester County.
The holiday weekend buzz at a California fair was stinging.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed for greater commercial access for American businesses in China on Sunday, urging Beijing for a "level playing field."
Han Guiqun, 91, has seen a lot of history pass in Shanghai: civil war, World War II, the Cultural Revolution and the nation's dramatic economic reform.
CNN's Emily Change explains what efforts China has made to make the Shanghai World Expo successful.
A barn fire that killed two men and dozens of horses in Ohio on Saturday shows no sign of criminal intent, authorities said.
A fire in a barn at an Ohio racetrack killed two people and dozens of horses. WHIO reports.
The H1N1 virus has been confirmed in a sample taken from a pig that was displayed at the Minnesota State Fair, the first time the virus has been found in a U.S. pig, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Monday.
The head of a Washington state mental institution resigned amid an investigation into the escape of a legally insane killer, the state's health department announced Wednesday.
A legally insane killer who escaped in Washington state during a field trip to a fair was recaptured Sunday, the Spokane County Sheriff's Department said.
A legally insane killer was on the loose in the state of Washington on Saturday, two days after he escaped during a field trip to a county fair, authorities said.
Prosecutors charged a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, man with attacking the city's mayor in an incident that landed the mayor in the hospital with wounds to his head and face, according to a criminal complaint filed by the district attorney Thursday.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett gives his first news conference after being beaten while helping a citizen.
A visibly battered Wisconsin mayor recounted Wednesday how he was beaten with a pipe after he attempted to help a screaming woman outside the state fair.
Mayor Tom Barrett was in stable condition after he was attacked at the Wisconsin State Fair. WISN reports.
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