SAVANNAH, Ga.—Three construction workers were injured Tuesday when part of an upper floor collapsed inside Savannah’s 124-year-old federal courthouse, which has been undergoing extensive renovations for more than a year. All three workers were taken to a hospital, none of them with life-threatening injuries, after part of the courthouse’s third floor gave way and the…

To conceal the gap between different and unlike floor surfaces, a wood threshold has long been the tradition; but a threshold made of marble can be a nice touch of class. Because of its long-lasting quality, marble is an excellent choice to create safe footing in a passageway, particularly where ceramic, stone or marble tiles…

Days ago, I was in the basement of an old house with my son. We were looking at the boiler, the structure and the foundation walls. He’s about to become a first-time property owner. For the past four years he’s been renting a loft apartment, saving so he can make a sizable down payment. I’ve…

Documents with contact information of some Afghans who worked for British authorities were found lying on the ground in the abandoned UK Embassy compound in Kabul, left by Foreign Office staff as the Taliban advanced. The discovery was made on Aug. 24 by a journalist from The Times of London during a tour through the…

A crafty husband decided to surprise his wife by laying the floor of her new wine cellar with almost 3,000 pennies. Tom Schaefer, 53, from Chicago spent five days secretly gluing down thousands of pennies across the 3-foot-by-3-foot floor while his wife was at work. “It wasn’t so much tricky as it was painstakingly maddening,”…