"ROUTES" initiative has no new funds, but aims to promote rural eligibility for current DOT grant, loan programs.

 Court is expected to consolidate a Sept. 25 lawsuit from 18 attorneys general with earlier one filed by environmental groups.

With term under way, Justices could alter law on groundwater-carried pollutants, pipeline project routes, LGBTQ workplace rights and undocumented worker status.p>

Industry's jobless rate dips to 3.2% in September from August's 3.6% and year-earlier 4.1%, BLS says.

Aradondo Haskins, a former Detroit demolition projects official, has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for accepting $26,500 in bribes from contractors and rigging bids to tear down homes in a federally funded demolition program.