A blast off wind took part of the roof off a school gym in Los Alamos Wednesday afternoon causing significant damage but no reported injuries. Debris landed on the Barranca Mesa Elementary School library and a pre-school section of the building. Five cars in the parking lot also were damaged. School officials said the wind seemed to come out of nowhere about 1:30 p.m. lifting the top layer of the gym roof. 
A parking deck collapse at Montgomery Mall left one person dead and another critically injured on Thursday. Officials expect a long investigation as they try to figure out exactly what happened. Thursday afternoon, the Cabin John Park Volunteer Fire Department tweeted out that its units responded to Westfield Montgomery Mall "for major structure collapse." Later, Montgomery County Fire officials said they got a call at 1:47 p.m. at the location at 7125 Democracy Blvd. They told us a key section of the parking deck collapsed and they were trying to rescue two adults. 
A Virginia Beach ambulance was involved in a crash Thursday afternoon. The crash occurred in the 4000 block of Elbow Road at the intersection of Walpole Street around 2 p.m., Grazia Moyers with the Virginia Beach Police Department said. The city ambulance landed on its side in a ditch and was the only vehicle involved. 
Dan Sligh called out to his wife, who had been sitting on the passenger seat beside him. No answer. When a section of a bridge over the Skagit River in Washington State collapsed Thursday evening, plummeting into the current dozens of feet below, it took the couple with it. As they pounded onto the river’s surface, the impact dislocated Sligh’s shoulder. 
Andrew Fatzinger, a 21-year-old Florida man, was arrested after a dramatic police chase that involved K-9 officers, a helicopter - and a quick beer stop, CBS Tampa Bay reports. The incident began when police were called to a potential looting early Sunday morning. Their investigation led to the discovery of Fatzinger, who was reportedly caught destroying the home with mustard and illegible writing on the walls, according to the station. The Florida Sun-Sentinel reports the victims of the looting were out of town during the break-in. 
A Villa Hills woman called Local 12 on Monday to let us know that a chronic petty thief who has victimized her for years, has come clean-sort of. Local 12 news reporter Joe Webb has a story of how the Lord moves in mysterious ways. Dee and Leo Samad have a nice backyard that they open up to friends and neighbors. There’s a beer tap in the bar and cold cans in the fridge. It’s out in the open and subject to the honor system. But as it’s said, there’s no honor among thieves. "There for awhile my husband kept saying,’I know I put a case of beer in there and there’s only 5 or 6 cans left. But what are you going to do? We put locks on it." 
A school bus slammed into the back of another bus, setting off a chain-reaction crash involving four buses in northern Indiana, leaving dozens of middle and high students with non-serious injuries and one driver seriously injured. Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department Sgt. Chad Hill said the bus driver was taken by helicopter to Parkview Hospital in Fort Wayne. He said more than 100 students from Wawasee School Corp. were on the buses when the accident occurred about a mile north of North Webster, about 40 miles west of Fort Wayne. 
The mayor of the Oklahoma City suburb that was devastated by a massive tornado Monday says he wants safe-room shelters built in all new homes. Moore Mayor Glen Lewis, on Wednesday, said he will propose an ordinance in the next couple of days at the Moore City Council that would modify building codes to require the construction of reinforced shelters in every new home in the town of 56,000. Lewis says he is confident he’ll get the four votes needed on the six-member council. The measure could be in force within months. 
A Wisconsin man died Monday afternoon when a semitruck crashed into a canal, caused by a coughing driver, according to the California Highway Patrol. A 37-year-old man from Red Granite, Wisc., was driving the big rig southbound on Highway 99 in the north part of Bakersfield when he started coughing, the CHP said Tuesday. The driver allowed the truck to veer across lanes and plow over guardrails, down an embankment and into an irrigation canal. 
Hampton crews worked to pull a vehicle from New Market Creek following a crash Wednesday morning. Cpl. Mary Shackelford with the Hampton Police Division said the crash occurred around 6:45 a.m. at Lasalle Avenue and West Mercury Boulevard. A vehicle was traveling southbound on Lasalle Avenue when it left the roadway and went into the creek. Two nearby residents pulled the only occupant in the vehicle to safety. 
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