March 28, 2013
A sinkhole has forced two families from their Florida duplex in the same area where another sinkhole opened under a man’s bedroom, killing him less than a month ago. Hillsborough County Fire Rescue crews responded to 911 call Tuesday evening. …
March 27, 2013
Unicoi County Schools Director Denise Brown says she’s confident the cost of relocating a Tennessee elementary school threatened by a sinkhole is covered by insurance. Brown told the Johnson City Press the contract through Risk Management Trust specifies the carrier …
March 25, 2013
Authorities say a sinkhole has opened between two homes in Seffner, Fla., and the houses have been evacuated as a precaution. Hillsborough County Fire Rescue spokeswoman Jessica Damico said the hole was estimated at 8 feet across and 10 feet …
March 14, 2013
A suspected sinkhole is forcing a Naples, Fla., congregation from its church. Pastor Rick Shuck told WBBH in Fort Myers on Monday the sinkhole has caused uneven floors, cracks in the walls and a hole in the ground so large …
March 14, 2013
Suddenly being swallowed up by the earth on a golf course’s fairway drove a wedge between Mark Mihal and a stellar round. The 43-year-old mortgage broker was counting his blessings Tuesday and nursing a dislocated shoulder sustained four days earlier …
March 8, 2013
The city commission in Albany this week gave preliminary approval for plans to replace a fire station that’s slowly sinking into the ground. Fire Station No. 3 was built in the mid-1980s on donated land. WALB-TV reports that workers discovered …
March 6, 2013
Officials in the Oregon coastal town of North Bend say a 16-foot-deep sinkhole that opened up in a restaurant parking lot partially swallowed a garbage truck. City Administrator Terence O’Connor tells The World newspaper that the truck needed to be …
January 24, 2013
Officials say 11 new bubble sites have been found in inundated swampland west of an 8.5-acre sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish. The sites are roughly in a row west of an unnamed oilfield access road extending south from La. 70 …
January 16, 2013
The Louisiana Office of Conservation has modified orders requiring Texas Brine Co. LLC to assess the status of sediments under an 8.5-acre sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish, prompting the company to withdraw a lawsuit filed last month against the state. …
December 18, 2012
State highway officials say they’ll start a six-month study early next year into the feasibility of an alternative route around an eight-acre sinkhole in northern Assumption Parish, La. The Advocate says the study is the initial step the Louisiana Department …