KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The future of the Royals and Chiefs in Kansas City was being shaped Tuesday as residents of Jackson County, Missouri, voted on whether to extend a sales tax to help to pay for a new downtown ballpark and major renovations to Arrowhead Stadium. In what is expected to be a close ballot measure, voters were being asked to essentially replace the existing three-eighths of a ...
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Grounded in central Illinois throughout its century-long history, heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar has seemingly been smitten by corporate wanderlust of late, moving its headquarters from Peoria to Deerfield to Irving, Texas, over the past seven years. But Caterpillar remains deeply rooted in the Peoria area with 12,000 employees, a major manufacturing operation and something few ...
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CLEVELAND (AP) — The Cavaliers are stepping up their off-court game. The NBA franchise unveiled renderings on Tuesday for a new world-class practice and high-tech training facility for the Cavs and public use in downtown that will further develop unused land on the Cuyahoga River and perhaps help lure free agents to Cleveland. Pending approval from the city's planning commission, the team is ...
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Mar. 26—GRAND FORKS — Work on the expansion of Grand Forks' Wastewater Treatment Plant has gone on throughout the winter as the city works to expand the facility for the next 25 years of use. Throughout the winter, foundation piles and work on facility upgrades have been ongoing. A total of 327 foundation pilings will be installed for the new expansion. The piles are being driven 135 feet into ...
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ORLANDO, Fla. — Chicago Bears President and CEO Kevin Warren is billing the potential construction of a closed-roof stadium along Chicago’s lakefront as the chance for the city to have “a crown jewel that will create jobs, opportunities and mega events.” After months of negotiations about building a stadium on the team’s $197 million Arlington Heights property and the exploration of more than ...
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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — An aluminum company has singled out northeastern Kentucky as its preferred site for a new aluminum smelter that would bring about 1,000 permanent jobs to an Appalachian region hard hit by the loss of coal and steel production, Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday. Plans by Century Aluminum Co. to build a smelter that produces dramatically lower emissions will be supported by ...
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A former employee at a Kentucky steel mill who took part in a kickback scheme involving a $14.9 million contract has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison. Jaymin Vinson also must forfeit $452,125 under the sentence and is jointly liable for $753,625 in restitution with the man who bribed him. Vinson was an engineer at the Nucor Steel Gallatin plant in Northern Kentucky in 2017 ...
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DES MOINES — Representatives for Iowa labor unions and the state's construction industry urged lawmakers to hit the brakes on a proposal to lower the tax rates businesses pay to fund benefits for unemployed workers. House Republican lawmakers on Thursday advanced House Study Bill 735 in order to gather more information about its potential impact. Rep. Dave Deyoe, R-Nevada, who chaired the ...
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A Woodbury company says it paid $735,000 to a prominent Twin Cities construction firm only to find out later that the money was never received because of an alleged cybercrime. The payment was supposed to cover construction expenses for a new office and warehouse in South St. Paul. Instead, the project's developer, Beck Properties Minnesota, has been hit with more than $530,000 in liens by ...
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SPRINGFIELD — Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration said on Friday it plans to rebuild two Illinois prisons, including the nearly century-old Stateville Correctional Center just southwest of Chicago, as part of a nearly $1 billion project scheduled to be completed over the next three to five years. The administration said it anticipates Stateville, about 40 miles southwest of Chicago in Crest ...
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