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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A worker who died during the weekend of an injury received at a temporary Formula One Las Vegas Grand Prix grandstand construction site at the Bellagio resort fountains was identified Monday by authorities. The death of Tizoc Antonio, 37, of Las Vegas, was accidental, the Clark County coroner’s office said. Nevada Occupational Safety and Health Administration spokeswoman Teri ...
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Sep. 26—MANATEE COUNTY — The planned ground-level passenger terminal at Sarasota Bradenton International Airport is no longer just a concept. The 75,300-square-foot ground boarding facility, which will eventually have five gates, a four-lane security checkpoint, nursing rooms, a pet relief area and restrooms, now has a roof and a concrete floor, as well as underground utilities. Also planned ...
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A former MBTA employee pleaded guilty to 13 charges after the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office said he used fake invoices to steal money and accepted bribes. Timothy Dockery, 57, of Plymouth, pleaded guilty to 13 charges including bribery, procurement fraud, accepting illegal gratuities, larceny and conspiracy. Dockery was sentenced to one year in a House of Correction, with two years ...
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Sep. 26—A federal investigation found an Oklahoma company could have prevented a May trench collapse in McAlester that fatally injured an employee. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced the agency was issuing a citation to Rocking L Dozer and Land Management LLC, a company based in Caney, for a willful violation of not using protective systems in a trench deeper than five ...
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A recycling facility will be built in Kentucky to shred electric vehicle batteries in a $65 million venture between American and South Korean companies that will supply material for a separate battery-related operation in the same town, the companies announced Tuesday. The 100,000-square-foot (9,000-square meter) EV battery recycling facility to be built in Hopkinsville will create about 60 ...
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Sep. 26—Steve Luebbe has been Fayette County engineer for 25 years. In that time, he has never seen the kind of infrastructure work the county is now embarked on to accommodate the Honda/LG Energy Solution Electric Vehicle (EV) battery plant being built in Jefferson Twp. "Without a doubt, hands down," Luebbe said in an interview Tuesday. "Fayette County really hasn't changed much in the 25 ...
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VIENNA (AP) — The Biden administration hopes to create a commercial nuclear fusion facility within 10 years as part of the nation's transition to clean energy, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Monday. Calling nuclear fusion a pioneering technology, Granholm said President Joe Biden wants to harness fusion as a carbon-free energy source that can power homes and businesses. "It’s not ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Last year's spike in inflation, to the highest level in four decades, was painful enough for American households. Yet the cure — much higher interest rates, to cool spending and hiring — was expected to bring even more pain. Grim forecasts from economists had predicted that as the Federal Reserve jacked up its benchmark rate ever higher, consumers and businesses would curb ...
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DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. said Monday that it's pausing construction of a $3.5 billion electric vehicle battery plant in Michigan until it is confident it can run the factory competitively. The move comes as the company is in the midst of national contract talks with the United Auto Workers union, which wants to represent workers at battery factories and win them top wages. In February, ...
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CAIRO (AP) — Libya’s chief prosecutor said Monday he ordered the detention of eight current and former officials pending his investigation into the collapse of two dams earlier this month, a disaster that sent a wall of water several meters high through the center of a coastal city and left thousands of people dead. The two dams outside the city of Derna broke up on Sep. 11 after they were ...
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