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While students in a South Carolina school participated in the National School Walkoutthis week, a custodian helped herself to their cash, police said.

The incident occurred at Richland Northeast High School on Wednesday.

Aisha Evans, a custodian at the school, went into a classroom while students were outside and rummaged through three book bags, the Richland County Sheriff's Department said.

In all, Evans stole $180

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When students walked out of class for National School Walkout, a custodian at Richland Northeast High School stole their cash, police said

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Buckeyes go 19-1, lead after Day 1 of NCAA wrestling championships

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CLEVELAND -- When Kyle Snyder stepped into Ohio State's wrestling room last summer, the reigning Olympic champion took a mental note.

This team, buoyed by a handful of former national champions and invigorated by a pair of talented transfers, looked like it could be unstoppable.

"In August, I believed we could be the greatest team in the history of NCAA wrestling," Snyder said after the Buckeyes surged to the lead on Day 1 of the NCAA wrestling championships. "I still think that, and we're doing a good job of proving that case right now."

The Buckeyes, one of just two teams to qualify all 10 wrestlers for the championship tournament, led defending champion Penn State 36-28½ after the first two rounds inside Quicken Loans Arena on Thursday.

They built their lead with bonus-point win after bonus-point win. The Buckeyes combined to go 19-1 overall with six pins, four technical falls and five major decisions.

Former NCAA champions Nathan Tomasello (125 pounds), Myles Martin (184) and Snyder (285) combined for five of those bonus-point victories.

"It's far from over," Ohio State coach Tom Ryan said. "A lot of these guys, their goals at the beginning of the year were individual championships and we have nine guys that are moving forward and still in the hunt for a national championship."

The chase for the team title will continue, too.

The Nittany Lions, who've won six of the past seven NCAA titles, beat the Buckeyes in a regular-season match in Happy Valley but were runners-up to Ohio State at the Big Ten tournament. They were forced to play catch-up early when 133- and 141-pounders Corey Keener and Nick Lee, both making their NCAA tournament debuts, were pinned in their opening-round matches.

Still, Penn State's five defending NCAA champions -- Zain Retherford (149), Jason Nolf (157), Vincenzo Joseph (165), Mark Hall (174) and Bo Nickal (184) -- all moved on and earned bonus points to keep the Buckeyes within range.

Retherford, who has won three national championships and 91 straight matches since his last loss in the 2014 tournament, put on an offensive clinic with a 16-1 win in his first bout and then pinned his way into the quarterfinals by fastening Maryland's Alfred Bannister to the mat in just 2:29.

Nolf has been a bonus-point machine in previous postseason tournaments. But he suffered a knee injury on Jan. 28 and has had to adjust to wrestling with a brace covering nearly his entire his right leg.

"[Friday's] the big day," Penn State coach Cael Sanderson said. "These bonus points are really huge in the early rounds. We gotta wrestle."

Iowa and Michigan are in the hunt as well.

The Hawkeyes, who haven't won an NCAA championship since 2010, had a powerful opening round but suffered a few casualties in the second and are 1½ points behind Penn State. Three of the Hawkeyes' nine qualifiers advanced to the quarterfinals and five others are still alive in their respective consolation brackets.

The Wolverines, looking for their first team trophy for a top-four finish since 2005, are four points behind Iowa and have five of their eight qualifiers through to the quarters.

Meanwhile, other former NCAA champions increased their chances of returning to the top of their respective podiums with wins.

Lehigh's Darian Cruz (125), Oklahoma State's Dean Heil (141), Illinois' Isaiah Martinez (165) and Arizona State's Jason Tsirtsis all moved into quarterfinal bouts.

Heil and Martinez, like Snyder and Retherford, are going for their third titles. Only 26 wrestlers have won three in NCAA history.

Snyder, already the youngest Olympic and world champion in U.S. history, has taken time away from the team to wrestle internationally. He said he's relished this final collegiate season and looked forward to rejoining the vaunted lineup every time he's returned.

"It's pretty awesome, especially being here in Cleveland," Snyder said. "I'd say 50 percent of the crowd are Buckeye fans and it's pretty inspiring watching the other guys on the team."

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CLEVELAND -- When Kyle Snyder stepped into Ohio State's wrestling room last summer, the reigning Olympic champion took a mental note. This team, buoyed by a handful of former national champions and invigorated by a pair of talented transfers, looked like it could be unstoppable.

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ARizona was upset by Buffalo wrecking brackets.

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The bridge collapse in Florida that killed 6 so far was caused by an "instant bridge" design. The company has a history of fines and lawsuits.

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The two firms responsible for building Florida International University's "instant bridge," which suddenly collapsed Thursday and left six people dead, are coming under increased scrutiny as details emerge of past engineering failures and inspection fines -- including a recent accusation that one hired "unskilled" and "careless" workers.

The $14.2-million pedestrian bridge was supposed to open next year to help students cross a busy road adjacent to the campus. It was an accelerated, joint construction effort by two Florida companies: MCM Construction, a Miami-based contractor, and Figg Bridge Design, based in Tallahassee, who both have worked on dozens of projects nationwide, ranging from military facilities to schools.

"Innovations take a design firm into an area where they don't have applicable experience, and then we have another unexpected failure on our hands," Robert Bea, a professor of engineering and construction management at the University of California, Berkeley, told the Associated Press after reviewing the bridge's design -- and the pile of rubble it was reduced to on Thursday afternoon.

As state and federal investigators worked Friday to determine how and why the five-day-old span failed, one factor may have been the stress test Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said crews were conducting on the span. Two workers were on the 950-ton bridge when it pancaked on top of vehicles waiting at a stoplight.

Renderings of the project before it went up showed a tall, off-center tower with supporting cables attached to the walkway, the Associated Press reported. When the bridge collapsed, the main tower had not yet been installed, and it was unclear what builders were using as temporary supports.

But the collapse is not the first incident involving either company.

The Virginia Department of Labor cited Figg for four violations in 2012 after a 90-ton slab of concrete fell from a bridge it was building near Norfolk, according to the Miami Herald.

Figg was hit with a $28,000 fine and the Department of Labor said the company modified a girder without properly inspecting it or getting written consent from its manufacturer, The Virginian-Pilot reported.

The girder ultimately failed and was responsible for the collapse, which ended up delaying the bridge's opening for three months and leaving four workers with minor injuries.

Despite this collapse, the company said Thursday that "in our 40-year history, nothing like this has ever happened before."

MCM Construction, meanwhile, in a lawsuit filed earlier this month, was accused of hiring "incompetent, inexperienced, unskilled or careless employees."

The company is building an expansion to Fort Lauderdale International Airport and a worker there was injured when a makeshift bridge collapsed under his weight, the lawsuit says.

The Associated Press, citing Occupational Safety Health Administration records, also said MCM has been slapped with fines totaling more than $50,000 during the past five years for 11 safety violations, which included complaints about cement dust and unsafe trenches at construction sites.

At one point, a subcontractor that walked off a job site won a $143,000 judgment against MCM after citing safety issues with a bridge project on Red Road in the Miami area, the Miami Herald reported.

"MCM is a family business and we are all devastated and doing everything we can to assist," the company said in a statement on its website Thursday. "We will conduct a full investigation to determine exactly what went wrong and will cooperate with investigators on scene in every way."

The "building projects" tab of the company's website shows it has worked on jobs at PortMiami and has built schools, police buildings and adult living facilities.

The Miami Herald, which called MCM one of the "most influential contractors in Miami-Dade," reported that its name also appears on $130 million in construction jobs from the Department of the Defense and a $63 million school at the Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay.

The accelerated construction method was supposed to reduce risks to workers and pedestrians and minimize traffic disruption, the university had said.

The school has long been interested in this kind of bridge design; in 2010, it opened an Accelerated Bridge Construction Center to "provide the transportation industry with the tools needed to effectively and economically utilize the principles of ABC to enhance mobility and safety, and produce safe, environmentally friendly, long-lasting bridges.

"FIU is about building bridges and student safety. This project accomplishes our mission beautifully," school president Mark B. Rosenberg said in a statement Saturday that now appears to have been taken off the university's website.

"We are filled with pride and satisfaction at seeing this engineering feat come to life and connect our campus to the surrounding community where thousands of our students live," he added.

The FIU community, along with Sweetwater and county officials, even held a "bridge watch party" March 10. That's when the span was lifted from its temporary supports, rotated 90 degrees across an eight-lane thoroughfare and lowered into its permanent position over the busy road.

Rosenberg said Thursday after the bridge's collapse that the community is feeling "immense sadness, uncontrollable sadness."

"We're committed to assist in all efforts necessary, and our hope is that this sadness can galvanize the entire community to stay the course, a course of goodness, of hope, of opportunity," Rosenberg said.

The identities of the victims have not yet been released and responders were still looking into the rubble Friday for more people who may be trapped.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Companies behind Florida bridge collapse have history of fines, failures, lawsuits

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The two firms responsible for building Florida International University's "instant bridge," which suddenly collapsed Thursday and left six people dead, are coming under increased scrutiny as details emerge of past engineering failures and inspection fines -- including a recent accusation that one hired "unskilled" and "careless" workers.

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he pedestrian bridge under construction near Florida International University was supposed to enhance safety -- letting walkers and cyclists cross a busy eight-lane street with less worry after a vehicle last year struck and killed an FIU student.

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An engineer for the company that designed a pedestrian bridge that collapsed Thursday, killing at least six people, left a voicemail two days earlier for a Florida Department of Transportation employee advising there was "some cracking that's been observed on the north end of the span."

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CNN 1 day ago By Susan Scutti, CNN

Spending a year in space not only changes your outlook, it transforms your genes.

Preliminary results from NASA's Twins Study reveal that 7% of astronaut Scott Kelly's genes did not return to normal after his return to Earth two years ago.

The study looks at what happened to Kelly before, during and after he spent one year aboard the International Space Station through an extensive comparison with his identical twin, Mark, who remained on Earth.

NASA has learned that the formerly identical twins are no longer genetically the same.

'Space genes'

The transformation of 7% of Scott's DNA suggests longer-term changes in genes related to at least five biological pathways and functions.

The newest preliminary results from this unique study of Scott, now retired from NASA, were released at the 2018 Investigator's Workshop for NASA's Human Research Program in January. Last year, NASA published its first round of preliminary results at the 2017 Investigator's Workshop. Overall, the 2018 findings corroborated those from 2017, with some additions.

To track physical changes caused by time in space, scientists measured Scott's metabolites (necessary for maintaining life), cytokines (secreted by immune system cells) and proteins (workhorses within each cell) before, during and after his mission. The researchers learned that spaceflight is associated with oxygen-deprivation stress, increased inflammation and dramatic nutrient shifts that affect gene expression.

In particular, Chris Mason of Weill Cornell Medicine reported on the activation of Scott's "space genes" while confirming the results of his separate NASA study, published last year.

To better understand the genetic dynamics of each twin, Mason and his team focused on chemical changes in RNA and DNA. Whole-genome sequencing revealed that each twin has more than expected unique mutations in his genome -- in fact, hundreds.

Although 93% of Scott's genetic expression returned to normal once he returned to Earth, a subset of several hundred "space genes" remained disrupted. Some of these mutations, found only after spaceflight, are thought to be caused by the stresses of space travel.

As genes turn on and off, change in the function of cells may occur.

Looking to Mars

Mason's work shows that one of the most important changes to Scott's cells was hypoxia, or a deficient amount of tissue oxygenation, probably due to a lack of oxygen and high levels of carbon dioxide. Possible damage to mitochondria, the "power plants of cells," also occurred in Scott's cells, as indicated by mitochondrial stress and increased levels of mitochondria in the blood.

Mason's team also saw changes in the length of Scott's telomeres, caps at the end of chromosomes that are considered a marker of biological aging. First, there was a significant increase in average length while he was in space, and then there was a decrease in length within about 48 hours of his landing on Earth that stabilized to nearly preflight levels. Scientists believe that these telomere changes, along with the DNA damage and DNA repair measured in Scott's cells, were caused by both radiation and calorie restrictions.

Additionally, the team found changes in Scott's collagen, blood clotting and bone formation due, most likely, to fluid shifts and zero gravity. The researchers discovered hyperactive immune activity as well, thought to be the result of his radically different environment: space.

The Twins Study helps NASA gain insight into what happens to the human body in space beyond the usual six-month International Space Station missions previously studied in other astronauts. Ten groups of researchers, including Mason's team, are looking at a wide variety of information about the Kelly twins' health, including how gut bacteria, bones and the immune system might be affected by living off planet.

Kelly's one-year mission is a scientific stepping stone to a planned three-year mission to Mars, NASA said. Research into how the human body adjusts to weightlessness, isolation, radiation and the stress of long-duration spaceflight is needed before astronauts are sent on journeys that would triple the time humans have spent in space so far.
CNN's Ashley Strickland contributed to this report.

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CNN 1 day ago By Susan Scutti, CNN Spending a year in space not only changes your outlook, it transforms your genes. Preliminary results from NASA's Twins Study reveal that 7% of astronaut Scott Kelly's genes did not return to normal after his return to Earth two years ago.

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7 dead in US military helicopter crash near Iraq border, officials say.

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A U.S. Black Hawk military helicopter with American service members aboard crashed in western Iraq near the border with Syria, officials said Thursday.

"Rescue teams are responding to the scene of the downed aircraft at this time," U.S. Central Command said in a statement.

An earlier statement said Centcom received "reports of an incident involving a Coalition aircraft in the vicinity of Al Qaim, Iraq."

The incident marked the second aircraft crash for the military in two days.

A U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet jet crashed off the coast of Key West, Florida, on Wednesday, killing both a pilot and a weapons systems officer.
Fox News' Jennifer Griffin and Lucas Tomlinson contributed to this report.
Nicole Darrah covers breaking and trending news for FoxNews.com. Follow her on Twitter @nicoledarrah.

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A U.S. Black Hawk military helicopter with American service members aboard crashed in western Iraq near the border with Syria, officials said Thursday. "Rescue teams are responding to the scene of the downed aircraft at this time," U.S. Central Command said in a statement.

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A student at a Minneapolis high school was assaulted by a mob of students after he carried a pro-Trump flag during the National School Walkout on Wednesday, police said.

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A student at a Minneapolis high school was assaulted by a mob of students after he carried a pro-Trump flag during the National School Walkout on Wednesday, police said.

The attack took place while students at Southwest High School were supposed to be observing a moment of silence to commemorate the 17 students and teachers who died in the Parkland, Fla. shooting last month, WCCO reported.

Police said the student was waving a flag in support of President Trump when he was ambushed by at least eight classmates. The mob forcefully took the "Trump" flag from the student, who suffered minor injuries, and damaged a camera he was carrying.

A school resource officer was able to stop the attack. There have been no arrests or disciplinary actions taken against any of the students involved as police continue to investigate what happened.

Minneapolis Public Schools officials told Fox News in a lengthy statement that, due to state law, they are "prohibited from sharing details of the brief fight that occurred on March 14 across the street and off school property."

Last week, MPS Superintendent Ed Graff sent a letter to families about creating "a space for students" during the walkout, emphasizing they should not leave school property.

Graff wrote it's "not possible" to "ensure student safety" if students "leave school grounds," adding the school "will not discipline students for the act of protesting as long as the protest remains peaceful."

Because the assault took place across the street from the school and technically off campus, it remains unclear what action the school will take, if any.

"MPS does not condone fighting or disrespectful behavior," said MPS spokesman Dirk Tedmon. "When it happens, we follow the same behavior and safety guidelines for all students involved."

Tedmon said students have a right to express their opinions - even when not everyone agrees with it.
'COERCED' STUDENT WALKOUT IN CHICAGO IS 'POLITICAL INDOCTRINATION': GOP CHAIR
"MPS's diversity is one of its greatest strengths and helps students grow into well-rounded, global citizens," he said. "It is important to maintain a safe, positive learning environment for each Minneapolis Public Schools student in every one the district's schools, and we are committed to doing that."

Caleb Parke is an associate editor for FoxNews.com. You can follow him on Twitter @calebparke

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A student at a Minneapolis high school was assaulted by a mob of students after he carried a pro-Trump flag during the National School Walkout on Wednesday, police said. The attack took place while students at Southwest High School were supposed to be observing a moment of silence to commemorate the 17 students and teachers who died in the Parkland, Fla.

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Arizona's two best players DeAndre Ayton and Allonzo Trier declare for the draft after losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament to 13 seed Buffalo.

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Allonzo Trier Declares for 2018 NBA Draft After Arizona's Loss to Buffalo

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Arizona Wildcats guard Allonzo Trier declared for the 2018 NBA draft on Thursday night following Arizona's shocking 89-68 loss to the Buffalo Bulls in the first round of the NCAA tournament...

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The singer tore into the app on Thursday for allowing an offensive ad to appear on its platform. Her remark sent Snap stock down nearly 4%, erasing nearly $800 million from its market value. Snap's stock opened slightly down Friday.

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Rihanna is the latest celebrity to send Snap's stocksliding.

The singer tore into the app on Thursday for allowingan offensive ad to appear on its platform. Her remark sent Snap 's stock down nearly 4%, erasing nearly $800 million from its market value. Snap's stock opened slightly down Friday.

The ad in question was for the mobile game "Would You Rather?," and it presented users with two options: "Slap Rihanna" or "Punch Chris Brown."Brown pleaded guilty in 2009 to beating Rihanna during an argument while they were dating.

Rihanna issued a statement on her Instagram account calling out Snap for the ad.

"Now SNAPCHAT I know you already know you ain't my fav app out there! But I'm just trying to figure out what the point was with this mess!" the singer wrote. "I'd love to call it ignorance but I know you ain't that dumb. You spent money to animate something that would intentionally bring shame to DV victims and made a joke of it."

The Kylie Jenner curse? Snapchat faces its defining moment

She added: "Shame on you."

Snap issued a statement to CNN calling the ad "disgusting."

"We are investigating how that happened so that we can make sure it never happens again," the company said.

The incident highlights the dangers of self-service ad platforms, which lets companies buy and submit ads without human negotiation. Many social networks use this method. In its ad policy, Snap says ads submitted to the platform are "subject to our review and policy" and doesn't allow content that depicts "excessive violence."

Daniel Ives, chief strategy officer and head of technology research at GBH Insights, told CNN that it's a big challenge forSnap.

"Social media platforms continue to have troubles with catching all offensive ads and content as we have seen from the likes of Facebook and Twitter," Ives told CNN. "Snap dropped the ball on this ad."

Ives added: "This is a make or break [year] for Snap and although we believe it'sheading in the right strategic direction, the Rihanna backlash and ad is another gut punch for this company to make sure they minimize the speed bumps ahead."

Rihanna's negative public statement comes just a few weeks after Kylie Jenner complained about Snap's redesign.

"Sooo does anyone else not open Snapchat anymore? Or is it just me... ugh this is so sad," Jenner tweeted, sending Snap's down 6% and wiping $1.3 billion off the company's market value. The new format triggered a Change.org petition, signed 1.2 million times, to get the original design back.

Snap responded by rolling out tabs for the Friends and Discover sections to quell user concern that its new look is too confusing.

The company also recently announced it is laying off about 120 engineers.

CNNMoney (New York) First published March 16, 2018: 11:30 AM ET

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A bridge in Florida collapses shortly after it was opened to the public. It ended up killing six people. It was supposed to be opened up some time next year, but they accelerated the process to make it open up quicker.

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The two firms responsible for building Florida International University's "instant bridge," which suddenly collapsed Thursday and left six people dead, are coming under increased scrutiny as details emerge of past engineering failures and inspection fines -- including a recent accusation that one hired "unskilled" and "careless" workers.

The $14.2-million pedestrian bridge was supposed to open next year to help students cross a busy road adjacent to the campus. It was an accelerated, joint construction effort by two Florida companies: MCM Construction, a Miami-based contractor, and Figg Bridge Design, based in Tallahassee, who both have worked on dozens of projects nationwide, ranging from military facilities to schools.

"Innovations take a design firm into an area where they don't have applicable experience, and then we have another unexpected failure on our hands," Robert Bea, a professor of engineering and construction management at the University of California, Berkeley, told the Associated Press after reviewing the bridge's design -- and the pile of rubble it was reduced to on Thursday afternoon.

As state and federal investigators worked Friday to determine how and why the five-day-old span failed, one factor may have been the stress test Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said crews were conducting on the span. Two workers were on the 950-ton bridge when it pancaked on top of vehicles waiting at a stoplight.

Renderings of the project before it went up showed a tall, off-center tower with supporting cables attached to the walkway, the Associated Press reported. When the bridge collapsed, the main tower had not yet been installed, and it was unclear what builders were using as temporary supports.

But the collapse is not the first incident involving either company.

The Virginia Department of Labor cited Figg for four violations in 2012 after a 90-ton slab of concrete fell from a bridge it was building near Norfolk, according to the Miami Herald.

Figg was hit with a $28,000 fine and the Department of Labor said the company modified a girder without properly inspecting it or getting written consent from its manufacturer, The Virginian-Pilot reported.

The girder ultimately failed and was responsible for the collapse, which ended up delaying the bridge's opening for three months and leaving four workers with minor injuries.

Despite this collapse, the company said Thursday that "in our 40-year history, nothing like this has ever happened before."

MCM Construction, meanwhile, in a lawsuit filed earlier this month, was accused of hiring "incompetent, inexperienced, unskilled or careless employees."

The company is building an expansion to Fort Lauderdale International Airport and a worker there was injured when a makeshift bridge collapsed under his weight, the lawsuit says.

The Associated Press, citing Occupational Safety Health Administration records, also said MCM has been slapped with fines totaling more than $50,000 during the past five years for 11 safety violations, which included complaints about cement dust and unsafe trenches at construction sites.

At one point, a subcontractor that walked off a job site won a $143,000 judgment against MCM after citing safety issues with a bridge project on Red Road in the Miami area, the Miami Herald reported.

"MCM is a family business and we are all devastated and doing everything we can to assist," the company said in a statement on its website Thursday. "We will conduct a full investigation to determine exactly what went wrong and will cooperate with investigators on scene in every way."

The "building projects" tab of the company's website shows it has worked on jobs at PortMiami and has built schools, police buildings and adult living facilities.

The Miami Herald, which called MCM one of the "most influential contractors in Miami-Dade," reported that its name also appears on $130 million in construction jobs from the Department of the Defense and a $63 million school at the Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay.

The accelerated construction method was supposed to reduce risks to workers and pedestrians and minimize traffic disruption, the university had said.

The school has long been interested in this kind of bridge design; in 2010, it opened an Accelerated Bridge Construction Center to "provide the transportation industry with the tools needed to effectively and economically utilize the principles of ABC to enhance mobility and safety, and produce safe, environmentally friendly, long-lasting bridges.

"FIU is about building bridges and student safety. This project accomplishes our mission beautifully," school president Mark B. Rosenberg said in a statement Saturday that now appears to have been taken off the university's website.

"We are filled with pride and satisfaction at seeing this engineering feat come to life and connect our campus to the surrounding community where thousands of our students live," he added.

The FIU community, along with Sweetwater and county officials, even held a "bridge watch party" March 10. That's when the span was lifted from its temporary supports, rotated 90 degrees across an eight-lane thoroughfare and lowered into its permanent position over the busy road.

Rosenberg said Thursday after the bridge's collapse that the community is feeling "immense sadness, uncontrollable sadness."

"We're committed to assist in all efforts necessary, and our hope is that this sadness can galvanize the entire community to stay the course, a course of goodness, of hope, of opportunity," Rosenberg said.

The identities of the victims have not yet been released and responders were still looking into the rubble Friday for more people who may be trapped.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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A famed ‘snake whisperer’ in Malaysia has died after he was bitten by a cobra, according to media reports.

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A famed 'snake whisperer' in Malaysia has died after he was bitten by a cobra, according to media reports.

Free Malaysia Today reports that Abu Zarin Hussin, a firefighter whose snake-catching skills have gone viral, received the fatal cobra bite three days ago. The 33-year-old died early on Friday, it said.

The New York Post reports that firefighters in Malaysia are often called to deal with snakes in homes and businesses.
SNAKE LOVER 'NO DOUBT' KILLED BY PET PYTHON NAMED TINY, CORONER SAYS
Abu Zarin led a fire department King Cobra Squad, where he trained other firefighters to catch the deadly serpents, according to Free Malaysia Today.

A 10-year firefighting veteran, he also showcased his snake-handling skills on "Asia's Got Talent" last year. His exploits are also widely documented on social media.

The Straits Times reports that Abu Zarin was attached to Temerloh fire station in the Malaysian state of Pahang. The firefighter has previously had close calls with snakes - he was reportedly in a coma for two days following a cobra bite in 2015.
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The New York Post reports that, in 2016, Abu Zarin was misidentified in the Thai media and some U.K. tabloids as a Thai man who allegedly married his pet snake, believing it to be the reincarnation of his girlfriend.

Last year Dan Brandon, a snake lover in the U.K., was found suffocated to death near his pet python, "Tiny." Earlier this year, a coroner said there was " no doubt " that the python killed Brandon.

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A custodian stole $180 dollars from students during the national walkout.

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When students walked out of class for National School Walkout, a custodian at Richland Northeast High School stole their cash, police said

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Rihanna responds to Snapchat's apology for an advertisement that appeared to mock her domestic violence incident with her former boyfriend, Chris Brown. As a result, Snapchat lost 800 million more in their stocks.

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A resolution to classify Neo-Nazis as terrorists was denounced within seconds. Even though it was expected to breeze through the courts, it was still shot down.

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It didn't even make it out of committee.

The resolution was written by Democratic state Rep. John Ray Clemmons. It doesn't name any particular group. It calls on law enforcement to go after white nationalists and Neo-Nazi groups with the same "fervor" as other forms of terrorism.

"[W]e urge law enforcement to recognize these white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups as terrorist organizations and to pursue the criminal elements of these domestic terrorist organizations in the same manner and with the same fervor used to protect the United States from other manifestations of terrorism."

But when it came up Wednesday before the House State Government Subcommittee, it died a quick death. How quick? About 36 seconds.

As Clemmons started to talk about the bill, the sole Democrat on the five-member committee motioned to have it discussed.

No one on the committee spoke up. The committee chair, Republican state Rep. Bill Sanderson, then gaveled the resolution dead

And with that the committee moved on to the next item on its agenda.

Because the resolution didn't get a second motion to proceed, it means it won't make it to a vote by the full legislature.

'Why, I can't begin to imagine'

Clemmons can't understand how something so non-controversial couldn't even get out of committee.

"Why, I can't begin to imagine," he told CNN affiliate WZTV. "What example does this set for children when their own state won't denounce acts of violence by hate groups? We have blown a tremendous opportunity."

Sanderson hadn't responded to CNN requests for comment, but another Republican member of the committee, state Rep. Bob Ramsey, told WZTV that they didn't have enough information on neo-Nazis or white supremacy to be able to talk about it.

"We have no expertise on it," he said. "How could we determine these groups are terrorists? We don't know the federal guidelines on terrorism."

Ramsey also said many resolutions are introduced solely to "embarrass one side of membership or the other. That's how we felt about this one."

The committee could bring the resolution back up if it's reworded, Ramsey said. CNN has reached out to Clemmons to see if he'll do this but has not heard back.

CNN's Tina Burnside contributed to this report.

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It didn't even make it out of committee. The resolution was written by Democratic state Rep. John Ray Clemmons. It doesn't name any particular group. It calls on law enforcement to go after white nationalists and Neo-Nazi groups with the same "fervor" as other forms of terrorism.

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In Holland, two construction workers were laying pipes in a new town called "Hoef" when they found a medieval cooking pot that contained 12 gold and 462 silver coins. The coins are believed to be from the 15th century.

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Just in time for Saint Patrick's Day - two construction workers in Holland have discovered a real-life "pot o' gold."

The workers from water company Oasen made the stunning find when they were laying pipes in the new town of Hoef and Haag in the province of Utrecht, LiveScience reports.

During the construction work, they dug up a medieval cooking pot that contained of 12 gold and 462 silver coins. The coins have been dated to the 15 th century. It's unclear at this point who will keep the coins.
TEENAGER'S DISCOVERY OF ROMAN TREASURE TROVE DELIGHTS EXPERTS
After finding the pot "it literally and figuratively rained coins," the company explained, in a press release translated via Google Translate. The coins, which were stuck together, had turned green. When the utility workers called in their boss, he reported the discovery to the archaeology hotline for Landschap Erfgoed Utrecht (Landscape Heritage Utrecht).

RTV Utrecht reports that experts immediately visited the site and used a metal detector to recover all the coins.

Some of the coins were found with textiles, which had apparently been used as a sort of protective roll.
HISTORY'S DUMPING GROUND: 400 BYZANTINE COINS, GOLD JEWELRY FOUND DISCARDED IN REFUSE PIT
The coins were transferred to the Omgevingsdienst regio Utrecht (Regional Environment Agency Utrecht) for analysis by archaeologist Peter de Boer, according to RTV Utrecht. Most of the coins date back to the 1470s and 1480s. Notable artifacts among the hoard include a rare "Salut d'or" gold coin of King Henry VI of England and France that was struck in Paris in the early 15 th century.

Coins from David of Burgundy, a 15 th century bishop of Utrecht, and Pope Paul II, were also found.

Details of the discovery, which was made in August 2017, was revealed in a press event in the Dutch city of Vianen earlier this month.
ROMAN COINS DISCOVERED IN RUINS OF JAPANESE CASTLE
In its statement, Oasen said that a number of the coins will be cleaned during the coming weeks. They will then be analyzed by experts at De Nederlandsche Bank, Holland's central bank.

Coins offer a fascinating glimpse into history and can shed new light onto the economic, cultural and political life of previous eras. Last year, for example, archaeologists in the U.K. announced the discovery of a rare Roman coin that was discovered on a remote Scottish island, 200 miles beyond the northern edge of the Roman Empire. In 2016, archaeologists were stunned to discover Roman coins in the ruins of a Japanese castle, prompting speculation that the coins were brought to Japan via trade routes linking the West to Asia.

In 2013, hundreds of ancient coins were discovered in a Byzantine-era refuse pit in Israel.
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Just in time for Saint Patrick's Day - two construction workers in Holland have discovered a real-life "pot o' gold." The workers from water company Oasen made the stunning find when they were laying pipes in the new town of Hoef and Haag in the province of Utrecht, LiveScience reports.

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When John Taylor starts remembering the years leading up to the financial crisis, his fury wells up all over again.

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When John Taylor starts remembering the years leading up to the financial crisis, his fury wells up all over again.

As president of the nonprofit National Community Reinvestment Coalition, he warned Congress about the predatory and fraudulent lending that was fueling a housing bubble as early as 2000. Lawmakers told the Federal Reserve to write rules that would have put a stop to the worst practices. But the crash came first.

"Thinking about it now, I can feel myself being angry about it," says Taylor, in a soft accent left over from his upbringing in the housing projects of Boston. "Because we fought when we saw these things happening. We brought it to the attention of both Democrats and Republicans. In the end, it took the nation's economy having to collapse before they felt the need to do something."

The crisis unofficially began a decade ago today, with JPMorgan's shocking deal to rescue Bear Stearns for $2 a share after the investment bank suffered deep losses tied to its mortgage investments. Bear was the first major investment bank to fail, but it would not be the last.

Now, with a buoyant economy finally starting to lift some of the United States' most depressed pockets, CNNMoney is taking a look back at the 10 years following the financial meltdown that stretched around the globe - and signs that something similar might again be on the horizon, as Congress and regulators begin to loosen some of the rules they put in place to fix and prevent the problems.

"We're sitting here, 10 years later, with a short-term memory that doesn't seem to recall how we got into that mess," Taylor says. "We got into that mess because of the lack of regulation, and now we're talking about making banks less accountable. It makes no sense whatsoever."

The scars that remain

Of course, America has come a long way since the government had to step in to save the banking system from going under. Corporate profits are at record highs, the unemployment rate is at a 17-year low and the stock market has quadrupled in value since itsRecession-era nadir in 2009.

But this is still a changed country. By many metrics, and for millions ofAmericans,the recovery has yet to arrive.

Take the homeownership rate, for example: Only in 2017 did it stop its long downward slide, after private equity investors bought hundreds of thousands of foreclosed homes and rented them back to their former owners, manyof whom saw their credit so badly damaged that they can never buy again.

Male workforce participation is still nearly as low as it's ever been, since blue-collar professions were particularly hard hit and haven't totally bounced back.

The recovery has deepenedthe divide in other ways: Geographically, with big tech hubs andcities rich with natural resources booming andthe Rust Belt and foreclosure capitals falling behind. And by income, with most gains going to households in the top 10% of the wage scale.

Median household net worth remains below where it stood in 1998, according to the Federal Reserve, even as households take on more debt than ever before. There's also a shortage of affordable housing, a legacy of the drought in both mortgage and construction lending that lasted long after the worst days of the recession had passed.

Memories of those difficult days seem to have faded from the public consciousness, as have the lessons we learned on how we got there in the first place.

Related: My road back from the Great Recession

Congress tried to answer this question when it established the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission, and its 2011 autopsy of the meltdown remains excellent reading today. Its fundamental conclusion: The financial crisis was not like a freak weather event, as some bankers and regulators hadclaimed. Rather, it was man-made, predictable and entirely avoidable.

If only lawmakers hadn't knocked out legal guardrails in the 1990s that had kept banks small and relatively uncomplicated. If only bank CEOs had thought more critically about the complex securities they had created and traded with abandon. If only the Federal Reserve had acted to stop the flow of toxic mortgages that would rot through the core of the nation's largest financial institutions - they could have saved the global economy from disaster, the commissionfound.

A missed opportunity to change the system

Even as the commission's report was being drafted, however, the next chapter of the recession was unfolding.

In 2009, President Obama pushed through a stimulus package worth $787 billion in an effort to save jobs, and launched home mortgage modification programs to help those at risk of foreclosure.

A year later, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 established new oversight bodies to coordinate the alphabet soup of regulators that had avoided responsibility by acting in silos. It also created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was explicitly charged with monitoring malfeasance by lenders. Itinstructed financial regulators to draft new rules for derivatives, credit bureaus, mortgage appraisals, executive compensation, corporate governance and other factors that played a role in the economy's implosion.

While most agree that the financial system is safer now than it was before the crisis, there's been abundant criticism of the adequacy of the response.

Many argue that bailouts for homeowners should have been much more generous, in order to avoid more foreclosures and better stabilize neighborhoods, and that banks should have been pushed harder to lend to qualified borrowers once new safeguards were put in place.

Others faulted Obama for not punishing the executives at fault for reckless lending. Although their firms - and thus shareholders - have paid out hundreds of billions of dollars in fines, none of the people running these investment banks and mortgage lenders went to jail. The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission itself made eleven criminal referrals to the Department of Justice, and none were prosecuted. The commission's chairman Phil Angelides says the lack of action sent a message to Wall Street that consequences for individuals would be minimal.

"I believe it was a seminal failure of the Obama administration not to hold accountable the people responsible for the wrongdoing," Angelides says. "If someone robbed a 7-Eleven of $1,000, and were able to settle up by having someone else pay $50, would they do it again? Of course they would."

Related: Too-big-to-fail banks keep getting bigger

Banks have spent billions of dollars complying with Dodd-Frank, even while fighting the rules as they were written, contributing to long delays in implementation. As of mid-2016, 20% of the mandated rules hadn't been proposed at all.

The Treasury's independent Office of Financial Research, which Dodd-Frank established to serve as an early warning system for impending crises, has been dramatically scaled back.

More broadly, Stanford Law professor Anat Admati argues that reformers missed their chance to increase transparency in the financial system and decrease the industry's dependence on debt, which could pose a risk as interest rates start to rise.

"We haven't had a major crisis and a bailout," says Admati. "But in terms of being prone to one, I'm disappointed that relatively little or not enough really changed."

Deregulation begins again

Now, after years of attempts, Republicans are poised to pass the most significant rollback of Dodd-Frank regulations since the bill was enacted, with the help of 16 DemocratIc senators who this week voted to exempt banks with less than $250 billion in assets from enhanced supervision. The bill also frees most banks from having to report lending data used to police fordiscrimination and weakens mortgage underwriting standards, among a host of other provisions.

Meanwhile, President Trump's picks to head federal agencies overseeing the banks have either worked for the industry, like Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Jay Clayton, or have been harsh critics of the agency they've been put in charge of, like the CFPB's acting director Mick Mulvaney. They have slowed or halted enforcement actions and rule making and imposed hiring freezes, limiting their ability to pursue fraud.

Related: Despite record profits, banks are playing the victims

Add to all of this an exuberant market and it again brings big risks, from rising corporate debt to cyber threats that can cripple whole companies in an instant. In combination with weaker tools to address financial failures when they occur, Columbia Law professor Kathryn Judge worries that these industry-friendly regulators again won't take action when they need to.

"There's been a shift from safety to growth," Judge says. "But if you want to have a growth-oriented system, then you have to accept that there's going to be fragility. How are we going to deal with that fragility when it becomes manifest?"

A Decade Later: It's been 10 years since the financial crisis rocked America's economy. In a special yearlong series, CNNMoney will examine the causes of the crisis, how the country is still feeling its effects, and the lessons we have - and have not - learned.

CNNMoney (New York) First published March 16, 2018: 8:03 AM ET

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A U.S. Black Hawk military helicopter with American service members aboard crashed in western Iraq near the border with Syria, officials said Thursday.

"Rescue teams are responding to the scene of the downed aircraft at this time," U.S. Central Command said in a statement.

An earlier statement said Centcom received "reports of an incident involving a Coalition aircraft in the vicinity of Al Qaim, Iraq."

The incident marked the second aircraft crash for the military in two days.

A U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet jet crashed off the coast of Key West, Florida, on Wednesday, killing both a pilot and a weapons systems officer.
Fox News' Jennifer Griffin and Lucas Tomlinson contributed to this report.
Nicole Darrah covers breaking and trending news for FoxNews.com. Follow her on Twitter @nicoledarrah.

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