SAN FRANCISCO -- A big step was taken with the goal of saving lives at the Golden Gate Bridge as a ceremony held on Thursday marked the beginning of work on a suicide barrier. Families of suicide victims have urged the officials to install a barrier to ...

Six weeks ahead of schedule, contractors for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers placed a 140-ton, steel vertical lift gate near the south end of an 1.8-mile-long storm surge barrier nearing completion in New Orleans. The placement marks the first closure of ...

“People come from all over the world to go onto this bridge,” said Sergeant Kevin Briggs, a retired police officer who used to patrol the Golden Gate. “Not just to sight-see, but also to take their life.” On Friday, San Francisco’s Golden Gate ...

A video of the incident shows Kenneth Henderson Jones, 63, walking toward the exit gate of an employee parking lot, carrying an axe. A toll plaza employee was killed by a mob over the alleged delay in opening the boom barrier in a Karnataka town late on ...