Ohio Attorney General sues United States Gypsum Co. for nearly $17 million to recover costs incurred to stabilize a state roadway threatened by sinkholes that had developed above the company’s former underground gypsum mines.
Failing to follow state and federal drug testing protocols has resulted in an $8.5 million settlement in the wrongful death of construction worker fatally struck by a dump truck in St. Paul, Minn.
The $660M extension of toll lanes on the suburban Washington, D.C., highway passes a major milestone with girder installation over a single weekend in late January.
Industry firms, families mourn losses as contractor and government crews lift wreckage from American Airlines and helicopter in Potomac River, and clear debris field by Feb. 6, with initial NTSB accident report expected by March 1.