CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Rescue teams in South Africa forged ahead Monday with efforts to find more survivors as the death toll rose to 32 a week after the collapse of an apartment building that was under construction Hopes were boosted over the weekend when one of the construction workers was found alive after six days without food and water in the rubble of the building in the city of ...
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Lenin Romero was framing windows on a home in Wilmington when he fell from a ladder and was impaled by a steel rod. If a $2.30 safety cap had been placed over the rod, it likely would have saved his life. Joshua "Kerrey" Brindle was laying sewer pipes in Albemarle when a trench collapsed and buried him alive. A commonly used piece of equipment called a "trench box" probably would have ...
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is set to announce Tuesday that the state will make $3.3 billion in funding available by July to begin building inpatient and outpatient mental health treatment centers as part of a massive effort to transform California's mental health system and address the homelessness crisis. The money is the first tranche of a $6.4-billion bond authorized by voters when they narrowly ...
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A Nashville company wants to put a solar energy farm on 800 acres in eastern Fayette County. Silicon Ranch, which runs and operates solar farms in 15 states, has an option to purchase 797 acres in the Haley Road area adjacent to a 384-acre solar project recently proposed by Eastern Kentucky Power Cooperative. That means a little less than 1,200 acres of farm land in Fayette County could be ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Federal grants can be a huge boost for small businesses. And some federal agencies do better at giving grants to small businesses than others. The Small Business Administration released its annual scorecard measuring how well federal agencies meet their small business contracting goals each year. Overall, the federal government has a goal to award 23% of contracts to small ...
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May 14—More traffic headaches lie ahead for San Antonio drivers as the Texas Department of Transportation begins a new phase of Interstate 35 construction that's expected to take four years. TxDOT began work Tuesday on the southern portion of the I-35 Northeast Expansion (NEX) Project , a $3 billion plan to expand 20 miles of the interstate throughout Bexar, Comal and Guadalupe counties. The ...
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Two times the day before a massive cargo ship struck and destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge, the vessel lost power completely, federal safety investigators have found. A series of electrical breaker failures aboard the 984-foot Dali also caused it to lose power and propulsion twice within about half a mile of the bridge before it struck around 1:30 a.m. on March 26, causing most of ...
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The Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada wears many hats when it comes to infrastructure. The RTC acts as the roadway funding agency for Southern Nevada, the public transit provider with the citywide bus and on-demand transportation offerings, and traffic manager. While most people think of infrastructure as just bridges, roads and highways and things of that nature, the RTC ...
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Residents of the wealthy coastal city whose crumbling bluffs are endangering the only rail line from San Diego to the rest of the nation are balking at measures being taken to shore up the vital transportation corridor. It's not the first time Del Mar has argued that efforts to preserve the coastline should not compromise beach access and sand retention. But those demands clash with regional ...
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Transit advocates are slamming New York State for putting an estimated $5 billion into wider highways in the five boroughs. A report by advocates Riders Alliance with Vocal-NY said plans to widen portions of six city highways highways stand in opposition to the state’s climate goals — most notably the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act as well as the state’s effort to reduce ...
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