Florence's Arno river embankment collapses. Read more about sharing. A section of the embankment of the River Arno in central Florence collapsed on Wednesday morning, sending part of the road and at least 20 parked cars into a newly formed ditch. The collapse took place very close to the famous Ponte Vecchio, a medieval covered bridge over the Arno.
Yvonne Craig who, as Batgirl, was a pioneer of female superheroes passes away. Updated 7:50 PM ET, Wed August 19, 2015. Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.
She died Dec. 18 at a Washington hospital at age 82. The cause was a heart ailment, said a stepdaughter, Yvonne Livingston. Johnson's brief professional baseball career ended before her 20th birthday, but in that time she accumulated amassed a lifetime of colorful tales about a bygone era of baseball born of segregation.