MACUNGIE, Pa. (AP) — Thousands of Mack Truck workers were on strike Sunday at plants in three states, the first such walkout in decades. United Automobile Workers union members, many wearing red T-shirts and carrying signs, began picketing in the morning at the Mack Truck cab and vehicle assembly plant in Macungie, Pennsylvania, where the company says "every Mack truck built for the North ... Read More

A worker was fatally pinned between two pieces of excavation equipment in a west metro neighborhood, authorities said Tuesday. The incident occurred early Monday evening in the 6500 block of Carriage Way in Corcoran, according to police. Officers arrived in the residential block and found the man on the ground next to earth-moving equipment and being tended to by co-workers, police added. He ... Read More

Oct. 5--With the potential for development of a $100 million casino next to Terre Haute Regional Airport, its board of directors met Friday with an airport planning firm. It's part of the airport's effort, through a 46 Corridor committee, to plan development on Terre Haute's east side. "You have a corridor and it is developing, but it is right of the end of your runway. You need to preserve ... Read More

Oct. 1--To remedy a Clean Air Act violation stemming from its coal-fired Rush Island Energy Center, Ameren must equip the plant with "scrubber" technology to reduce pollution levels, according to a federal judge's ruling issued late Monday -- a move that could cost the company hundreds of millions of dollars. The decision could mark a momentous development in the long-simmering legal dispute ... Read More

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $1.5 million to an Ohio University professor to develop engineered composite decking boards from coal. Industry partners are providing an additional $500,000 in funding. Jason Trembly, Russ Professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment (ISEE), part of the Russ College of Engineering ... Read More

Sep. 25--This hole will need more than a patch job. A large sinkhole in Michigan's Upper Peninsula forced the closure of a section of U.S. 2 this week. The hole in Manistique, a city in Schoolcraft County, stretches across almost an entire lane of eastbound traffic and is deep enough to hold an orange construction barrel. The Michigan Department of Transportation shared a photo of the crater ... Read More

A nearly $190 million financing package will pave the way for construction to begin early next month on the tallest -- and most expensive -- condominium building in the state, but it’ll scuttle plans for a competing condo tower just a few blocks away. Bob Lux of Twin Cities-based Alatus said Tuesday that after three years of planning, including 18 months of legal challenges over the height of ... Read More

The Metropolitan Council’s plan to award a major construction contract for a $150 million bus garage just outside downtown Minneapolis has been put in limbo amid legal accusations that they botched the bidding process. The council, which oversees Twin Cities transit, has been preparing for nearly two decades to build a new garage beside its existing Heywood garage in the North Loop, to ... Read More

Sep. 24--A man died Monday morning after falling from a roof at a Sugarcreek Twp. construction site in a fall that no one reportedly witnessed. Rene Flores, 44, of Columbus, was identified by the Greene County Coroner's Office as the man who fell from the roof of an apartment building under construction near Center Point Drive in Sugarcreek Twp. The fall occurred sometime between 7 and 8:30 ... Read More

Willowbrook plant linked to higher area cancer rates can install equipment needed to reopen. SPRINGFIELD - The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency approved a construction permit Friday that will allow a medical supply sterilization plant linked to increased cancer rates to install new equipment that must be in place before it is allowed to reopen. The state EPA issued a news release ... Read More