WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide $6.1 billion in government support for Micron Technology to produce advanced memory computer chips in New York and Idaho. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., personally courted Micron to build what would ultimately be a set of four chip factories near Syracuse in the town of Clay. He noted in a Wednesday ...
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As construction season's orange cones and barrels spring up along Kentucky highways, state officials remind everyone to drive distraction free and slow down. Those safe driving practices will reduce the dangers highway crews face in work zones and could save lives. In 2023, Kentucky recorded 1,251 crashes in highway work zones where 247 people were injured and 17 lost their lives – nearly ...
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Missouri may provide tax breaks for a massive expansion of a south Kansas City federal plant where workers build key parts for U.S. nuclear weapons. The Missouri House is poised to pass a bill from Rep. Chris Brown, a Kansas City Republican, that would offer a sales tax exemption on all materials needed to expand the National Nuclear Security Administration’s plant in south Kansas City. The ...
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The Little Pee Dee River’s winding path carries it through peaceful, wildlife-filled swamps as it flows between busy Interstate 95 and bustling Myrtle Beach on South Carolina’s northern coast. It’s in an area that for years has stayed relatively free of heavy development like that found along the Grand Strand. But a proposed freeway that would link I-95 to Myrtle Beach threatens to disrupt the ...
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APi Group will spend $570 million to expand into the elevator and escalator business. The New Brighton-based company is acquiring Elevated Facility Services Group, a Tampa, Fla.-based business with about 600 employees across 18 states. Elevated is APi's largest acquisition since it paid $3.1 billion to buy Chubb's fire and security business. Elevated does about $220 million in annual sales ...
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As the one-year anniversary of the fatal SouthPark construction site fire nears, so does a potential toughening of North Carolina’s safety codes, which officials hope will prevent similar tragedies. On May 18 last year, flames erupted from the diesel engine of a trailer carrying spray-foam insulation on the bottom floor of a 239-unit luxury apartment building under construction. Within ...
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Construction has begun on a regional retail complex that will anchor a mixed-use community in Bowie and include Giant Food as a key tenant, developers said Tuesday. Developers of the $1.3 billion South Lake community, one of the largest such developments underway in the Baltimore-Washington corridor, said the new South Lake Marketplace will include 600,000-square-feet of shops, restaurants, ...
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Apr. 15—There is something sprouting out of the ground at the construction site of the $1.7 billion new Buffalo Bills stadium in Orchard Park. It is structural steel and the start of flooring on the decks of the stadium's second level. Two months after the project's first steel was placed beneath the ground in the lower level of the huge bowl that is the foundation for the stadium, the ...
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Attorneys for the families of two Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse victims and a survivor say workers received “no warning” before the container ship Dali struck the bridge. L. Chris Stewart and Justin Miller of Atlanta-based Stewart Miller Simmons Trial Attorneys and Daniel Rose and Kevin Mahoney of Kreindler & Kreindler in New York are representing the families of victims’ Alejandro ...
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PITTSBURGH (AP) — More than two dozen river barges broke loose from their moorings and floated down the Ohio River in Pittsburgh, striking one bridge that had already been preemptively closed and damaging a marina, officials said. The boats eventually were pinned to the riverbank or went over a dam downstream, officials said. Pittsburgh police, fire and emergency medical services responded ...
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