News about Dave Parker

In 1980, the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida (left) collapsed in a similar manner to the one in Baltimore when it was struck by a 20-ton freighter that had to battle through fog, rain, and hurricane-force winds. Thirty-five people were killed. More than a century ago, 79 people died when the Yarmouth suspension bridge (top right) in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, collapsed under the weight of a crowd watching a circus act. The Whangaehu River Bridge (inset) in rural Tangiwai, New Zealand, collapsed on Christmas Eve after a lava rock fell on the nearby Mount Ruapehu undermined the structure. In her Christmas broadcast from Auckland the following day, Queen Elizabeth II, who was in the country on her first royal tour as monarch, expressed sympathy for the 151 victims. In 2018, the Morandi Bridge (bottom right) in Genoa, Italy, died, killing 43 people and leaving 600 others dead and 800 others homeless. Later, it was discovered that'mafia' firms had been involved in its construction.

A winter storm has dropped ice, sleet, and snow to southern and central areas of the United States, causing the cancellation of more than 1,000 flights and the shutdown of major highways. People from Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, and West Virginia have been warned of ice and wind chills that have fallen 50 degrees below zero. As highways in central Texas and southern Oklahoma frozen over, the National Weather Service had warned of ice in Arkansas and Tennessee by Tuesday morning.

After a long fight with cancer, John Stearns, a four-time All-Star catcher with the New York Mets, died. He was 71 years old at the time. According to the Mets, Stearns, who played football and baseball at the University of Colorado, died in Denver on Thursday night. He died less than three weeks after celebrating an Old Timers' Day at Citi Field in New York, which coincided with the Mets' 60th anniversary. On Aug. 27, he was noticeably thin in his Mets jersey and waved to the audience as he was introduced on the field.