Vivian Olodun came home to a crime scene Sunday night at her 45th floor downtown Miami apartment. Glass shards were scattered on her daughter’s empty high chair after an apparent bullet strike partially shattered a window off her kitchen. City police advised her to sleep with the blinds closed. The marketing executive and married mother […]
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Design overhaul lifts height of new downtown Knoxville high-rise to 18 stories
An 18-story riverfront apartment project will have to go back to the drawing board ‒ again ‒ after the Knoxville-Knox County Planning Design Review Board postponed it for the second month in a row. The project called Hill & Locust is a huge new apartment building overlooking the Tennessee River near the Henley Street bridge. […]
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1 dead, another injured in Las Vegas high-rise fire
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — One person is dead and other is injured after an early-morning fire at a central Las Vegas valley high-rise. At around 5:30 a.m. on Monday, May 6, Clark County Firefighters responded to a fire at a residential high-rise in the 3900 block of University Center Drive. Reports said smoke was in […]
Rent hike battle at Tarrytown affordable high-rise as new landlord seeks ‘standard’ scale
In a region where you’d be lucky to find a studio apartment for $1,600, Dave Cova resides in a three-bedroom apartment in Tarrytown, paying $1,593 in monthly rent, including utilities. He lives with his 23-year-old son at Asbury Terrace, a federally subsidized high-rise with glorious views of the Cuomo Bridge and the Hudson, where tenants […]
3 people died after being ripped from their high-rise apartments by freak wind storms in China, local reports say
Strong winds in the Chinese city of Nanchang killed at least four people on Sunday, per state media. At least three of them were swept out of their high-rise apartments at around 3 a.m., local outlets reported. Footage shows apartments with gaping holes after entire floor-to-ceiling windows went missing. Three people died on Sunday in […]
Police respond to stabbing death at Manchester high-rise
Mar. 3—Police on Sunday investigated the “suspicious death” of a man at the O’Malley high-rise in downtown Manchester. Thomas B. O’Malley Apartments at 259 Chestnut St. is operated by the Manchester Housing and Redevelopment Authority. The building mostly houses the elderly and disabled. According to police logs, officers responded to a 911 call for a […]
Bond modified for mother accused of causing her child’s fall from Kansas City high-rise
A Jackson County judge on Tuesday modified the bond for the mother of a 5-year-old boy who fell to his death from the 17th floor of a downtown Kansas City high-rise last fall. Associate Judge R. Travis Willingham changed the $100,000 cash-only bond for 27-year-old Corrinne O’Connor’s to one that would allow her to post […]
Explosion reported in high-rise building in Kyiv, one person reported dead, hundred evacuated
An explosion occurred in an apartment on the first floor of a nine-story building in Sviatoshynskyi district, reported by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine on Feb. 7. The firefighters were called at 11:24 pm. Upon arrival, the rescuers discovered that the fire was set off by an explosion caused by an explosive object. A […]
Graffiti-tagged L.A. high-rise a ‘blight’ and ‘worldwide issue,’ police chief says
LOS ANGELES — Dozens of people showed up at a graffiti-marred downtown Los Angeles high-rise Tuesday in an attempt to further vandalize a property that the police chief warns is becoming a “center of mischief and turmoil,” as well as a “worldwide issue.” At least six arrests for vandalism have been made since the graffiti […]
Russian missile kills 4 in Kyiv’s high-rise residential building, at least 19 injured
The death toll from the morning Russian missile attack on Kyiv has risen to four, with one more body recovered from the rubble in a high-rise residential building in the capital’s Holosiivskyi District, Ukraine’s Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko reported on Telegram on Feb. 7. Three women aged 31, 66 and 73, as well as a […]
Police arrest two in connection with 30-floor graffiti on Los Angeles high-rise
Police in Los Angeles have arrested two men suspected to be part of a group that has been plastering graffiti across 30 floors of an under-construction high-rise building. LAPD said early Friday that Victor Daniel Ramirez, 35, and Roberto Perez, 25, both from LA, were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of trespassing and released from […]