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☆ At Least Six Dead After Dust Storm Causes Crashes on Illinois Highway
  + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Talal Ansari | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A dust storm caused a pileup of dozens of vehicles on Interstate 55 in Illinois, police said. Photo: Nathan Cormier/StoryfulAt least six people died and dozens were injured in Illinois after a dust storm caused more than 60 vehicles to crash along a two-mile stretch of Interstate 55, police said. Authorities said at least 30 commercial vehicles and 40 to 60 passenger vehicles were involved in the pileup Monday, which occurred on the northbound and southbound lanes of I-55 south of Springfield, Ill. At least two commercial trucks caught fire.
☆ Dust Storm Causes Pileup on Illinois Highway, Killing Multiple People
  + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Talal Ansari | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A dust storm caused a pileup of dozens of vehicles on Interstate 55 in Illinois, police said. Photo: Nathan Cormier/StoryfulMultiple people died and more than 30 were injured after a dust storm caused more than 60 vehicles to crash on Interstate 55 in Illinois, police said. The crashes occurred around 11 a.m. local time, south of Springfield, Ill., according to Illinois State Police Maj. Ryan Starrick.
☆ Six Dead After Dust Storm Causes Crashes on Interstate 55 in Illinois
  + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Livia Albeck-Ripka | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
Six people were killed and more than 30 people were injured in crashes caused by “excessive winds” that blew dust from nearby farms onto Interstate 55 in a rural section of central Illinois, on Monday morning, leading to “zero visibility” conditions, the Illinois State Police said. The crashes, which took place just before 11 a.m. in Farmersville, Ill., south of Springfield, involved about 20 commercial vehicles and 40 to 60 cars, including two tractor-trailers that caught fire, the police said in a statement. The people injured were between 2 and 80 years old, and their injuries ranged from minor to life-threatening, the authorities said, noting that it had been difficult to extract people from their vehicles, some of which were engulfed in flames. “This is a difficult scene, something that is very hard to train for something that we really haven’t experienced locally,” Kevin Schott, the director of Montgomery County’s emergency management agency, said at a news conference on Monday.
☆ Illinois dust storm causes car crashes, at least 6 fatalities along I-55 in Montgomery, Sangamon counties
  + stars: | 2023-05-01 | by ( Joe Sutton | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +3 min
CNN —At least six people were killed after a dust storm caused dozens of vehicles to crash along a major highway in Central Illinois on Monday, officials said. The crashes along I-55 led to the interstate closing in Sangamon and Montgomery counties after police say dust from newly plowed fields took over the highway. Illinois State Police Maj. Ryan Starrick said there were at least six dead and more than 30 people were hospitalized with injuries ranging from minor to life-threatening. He said the interstate in southern Sangamon and northern Montgomery counties would remain closed as officials investigate and clear vehicles. The National Weather Service in Lincoln, Illinois, issued a “blowing dust warning” at 1:25 p.m. CT.“Severely limited visibilities are expected.
☆ Bed Bath & Beyond files for bankruptcy
  + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( Nathaniel Meyersohn | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +9 min
Chris Hammons unloads a bag of items she purchased at a Bed Bath & Beyond store in Dallas, Texas September 23, 2009. In its bankruptcy filing, Bed Bath & Beyond said it had $5.2 billion in debt and assets of just $4.4 billion. Discount chains such as HomeGoods and TJ Maxx have also undercut Bed Bath & Beyond’s prices. Without the differentiators of the lowest prices or widest selection, Bed Bath & Beyond’s sales stagnated from 2012 to 2019. And Bed Bath & Beyond is the latest retail chain to file for bankruptcy this year.
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☆ DeSantis may have overreached when he went to war with Disney, and Trump smells blood in the water
  + stars: | 2023-04-21 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Florida Gov. "DeSanctus is being absolutely destroyed by Disney," Trump wrote earlier this week. "DeSanctus is being absolutely destroyed by Disney," Trump crowed on his social media platform Truth earlier this week. The Florida governor wanted to burnish his national image by torching Disney. And by gobbling up intellectual property and broadcasting rights, Disney continues to be virtually inescapable.
☆ Man who threatened to bomb Merriam-Webster offices over gender identity definitions sentenced to year in prison
  + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Aaron Mcdade | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
A California man got a year in prison over threats to Merriam-Webster and other businesses. Jeremy Hanson made threats related to gender, including some related to the definition of "female". Hanson used an anonymous account to post threatening responses to new definitions added to words like "female" on Merriam-Webster's website. "It is absolutely sickening that Merriam-Webster now tells blatant lies and promotes anti-science propaganda," Hanson wrote. "You [sic] headquarters should be shot up and bombed," Hanson wrote in a message on the site's Contact Us page.
☆ The glut of parking spaces in the US is driving up housing costs and hurting the environment
  + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Devoting this much land to parking makes housing more expensive and hurts the environment. Removing some of our parking could boost our quality of life, according to a former Google exec. All this parking is a burden on our environment, government budgets, affordable housing, and, ultimately, quality of life, Poskey said. He pointed to onerous parking requirements as a reason for the country's lack of affordable housing. Areas of Plano, Texas; Springfield, Massachusetts; and New Orleans with a mix of commercial buildings and stores accounted for 3% of those cities' land but 40% of their jobs, the Brookings Institution found.
☆ A Missouri lawmaker defended child marriage, saying kids he knows who got married at age 12 are 'still married'
  + stars: | 2023-04-13 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +2 min
Missouri State Sen. Mike Moon defended child marriage on Tuesday, citing a couple he knows. Moon said the couple married at age 12 and that they were still together. "You said actually that should be the law because it's the parents' right and the kid's right to decide what's best for them. "Do you know any kids who have been married at age 12?" In 2018 the Missouri legislature passed a bill raising the state's minimum marriage age from 15 to 16, with teens under 18 requiring parental consent.
☆ 130 Regal, Eastgate, and other movie theaters could close in the US — see the list of those already shuttering
  + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Travis Clark | Sindhu Sundar | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
Cineworld has sought to exit its leases for 130 theaters in the US. A bankruptcy court in Texas has already approved its plan to walk away from 47 of those locations. Cineworld filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September. So far, the Texas bankruptcy court overseeing the proceedings has approved the company's plan to exit 47 leases, according to court filings. The North American box office hit $7.4 billion in 2022, according to Comscore, down from over $11 billion in 2019 and 2018.
☆ Delta and United are dropping service to more cities as the trend of leaving regional airports behind continues
  + stars: | 2023-04-05 | by ( Bianca Giacobone | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
The two airlines have collectively dropped 55 regional airports since the COVID-19 pandemic. "Delta continues to evaluate the regional market, monitoring regional carrier pilot availability and customer demand. After Delta pulls out, La Crosse Regional Airport will still be connected to Chicago by American Airlines. The four airports are the latest in a long list of regional airports that were abandoned by major airlines as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. Including the airports cited above, Delta has dropped 17 regional destinations and United 38 regional destinations since the beginning of the pandemic.
☆ FBI Headquarters Decision Pits Maryland Against Virginia
  + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Eric Bazail-Eimil | Sadie Gurman | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
The J. Edgar Hoover Building, headquarters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in Washington, D.C. , whose replacement location is to be chosen soon. WASHINGTON—After more than a decade of delay and escalating political volleys across the Potomac River in recent months, the agency that manages the federal government’s real estate is close to picking the location of a new Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters campus in the capital’s suburbs. The decision to replace the deteriorating J. Edgar Hoover Building in downtown Washington has set off a heated competition between elected officials representing Virginia and Maryland, the two states vying to secure the future site to house at least 7,500 bureau employees and the bureau’s leadership, along with the economic development that will come with it. Maryland’s two potential sites are in Greenbelt and Landover, while Virginia’s is in Springfield.
☆ America's Parking Addiction Hurts the Economy, Drives up Housing Costs
  + stars: | 2023-04-04 | by ( Jeral Poskey | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +10 min
A society committed to housing and feeding its people will ensure plenty of land is dedicated to homes and farms. According to the builder WGI, the average parking stall in the US costs $27,900 to build, more than the cost of many new compact cars. The money and resources dedicated to parking could be used for other purposes, but breaking our country's reliance on parking has been difficult. Parking accounted for about 27% of per-unit costs, regardless of whether the resident owned a car or not. Better transportation, better land use, better citiesEfforts are underway to finally rid America of its unhealthy devotion to parking.
☆ NHL roundup: Owen Tippett's hat trick lifts Flyers over Sabres
  + stars: | 2023-03-18 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Mandatory Credit: Nick Turchiaro-USA TODAY SportsMarch 18 - Owen Tippett scored three goals to lift the host Philadelphia Flyers to a dominant 5-2 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Friday. Joel Farabee and James van Riemsdyk each added one goal for the Flyers, who snapped a four-game losing streak. Victor Olofsson scored two goals for the Sabres, who lost their second straight. Maple Leafs 5, Hurricanes 2Zach Aston-Reese scored two goals as Toronto defeated visiting Carolina. Ryan Strome and Troy Terry each logged a goal and an assist, and Max Comtois and Trevor Zegras added a goal apiece.
☆ Meet the typical Dollar General customer: An older rural worker with a high school education and an income of less than $40,000
  + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Dominick Reuter | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Dollar General has 19,147 stores across the US and Mexico and employs more than 163,000 people. Dollar General's average customer is older, has a high-school diploma, and earns less than $40,000 per year. The first Dollar General store opened in 1955 in Springfield, Kentucky. Dollar General, now based in Tennessee, has 19,147 stores across the US and Mexico, mostly concentrated in the Sunbelt and Midwest. Numerator found that Dollar General's typical shopper is an older worker with a high-school education who lives in a two-person household in a rural area and earns less than $40,000 per year.
☆ Fact Check-‘The Simpsons’ did not predict collapse of Silicon Valley Bank
  + stars: | 2023-03-15 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +1 min
A clip from a 1995 episode of “The Simpsons” animated series that shows the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) running out of money has been altered to claim that the show predicted the start-up focused bank’s collapse decades ahead of its time. In the video, panic ensues as character Burt Simpson announces to customers waiting at a bank “What do you mean the bank is out of money? The bank in the original episode is the First Bank of Springfield, named after the fictitious town, where the show is set. Reuters has previously fact-checked several other claims that falsely suggested “The Simpsons” predicted important world events (here), (here) and (here). A 1990s episode of The Simpsons about a bank failure was edited to substitute the name Silicon Valley Bank instead of First Bank of Springfield.
☆ Biden reversed a Trump-era decision to change the colors of Air Force One. Here's what it looked like throughout the years
  + stars: | 2023-03-11 | by ( Hannah Getahun | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +4 min
President Joe Biden will keep with tradition and feature a blue and white Air Force One fleet. The news comes years after former President Donald Trump proposed that the colors change. Trump's changes would have resulted in additional heat on significant plane parts, the Air Force said. Air Force One, the plane of the president of the United States, is seen during takeoff, June 1968. Every Air Force One plane since has kept with tradition and featured a blue and white design.
☆ These 7 U.S. cities have the smallest wage gaps
  + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Jennifer Liu | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +1 min
Women out-earn men in just three U.S. cities, according to a new analysis of Census data from Smartasset, the personal finance site. The city, which has roughly 152,000 residents, also saw women's wages rise nearly 33% from 2017 to 2021, and the the wage gap narrowed by 26% during that time. Women's wages are near parity (within 1% to 2% of men's wages) in Oceanside, Calif.; Dallas; Oxnard, Calif.; and Denton, Texas. U.S. cities with the smallest gender wage gapsHollywood, Fla.: 104.76% Oakland, Calif.: 102.73% Springfield, Mass. The wage gap widened in the 10 largest U.S. cities, according to SmartAsset, with the biggest drop coming from San Antonio, Texas, where women went from earning 91 cents for every dollar earned by a man to 82 cents over the last four years.
☆ Norfolk Southern CEO to tell senators how he plans to 'make it right' after Ohio derailment
  + stars: | 2023-03-09 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +5 min
Drone footage shows the freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, U.S., February 6, 2023 in this screengrab obtained from a handout video released by the NTSB. Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw will tell a U.S. Senate panel Thursday how he plans to "make it right" after one of the company's trains derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last month. Other committees in Congress are also investigating the East Palestine derailment. On Saturday, another Norfolk Southern train derailed in Ohio, after which residents near Springfield were ordered to shelter in place. Hours after that derailment, internal emails obtained by CNBC indicated that Norfolk Southern was making broad safety adjustments to prevent future incidents.
☆ US safety board opens probe into Norfolk Southern after derailments
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( David Shepardson | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Norfolk Southern has been under fire after several derailments of its trains, particularly one on Feb. 3 in East Palestine, Ohio that caused cars carrying toxic vinyl chloride and other hazardous chemicals to spill and catch fire. Norfolk Southern CEO Alan Shaw is scheduled to testify on Thursday before a Senate committee on the East Palestine derailment. Since December 2021, NTSB has launched investigation teams to five significant accidents involving Norfolk Southern including a March 4 derailment of a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed near Springfield, Ohio. As part of the special investigation, the NTSB will also review a October 2022 Norfolk Southern derailment in Sandusky, Ohio. "The continued safe operations of Norfolk Southern is vital to the United States.
☆ NTSB opens special investigation into Norfolk Southern safety practices
  + stars: | 2023-03-07 | by ( Noah Sheidlower | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
The National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday said it opened a special investigation into Norfolk Southern after recent derailments. Norfolk Southern didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the NTSB probe. "When we walk out of there, I want to make sure that Norfolk Southern is doing what they need to do to make this right. On Saturday, another Norfolk Southern train derailed near Springfield, Ohio. The NTSB has launched investigations into five accidents involving Norfolk Southern, including the death of a Norfolk Southern conductor Tuesday morning in Cleveland after a dump truck collided with a train at a steel facility.
☆ Norfolk Southern makes broad safety adjustments after third train derailment
  + stars: | 2023-03-06 | by ( Lori Ann Larocco | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +3 min
An internal Norfolk Southern email sent Sunday and obtained by CNBC with a time stamp approximately 11 hours after the latest derailment indicated that Norfolk Southern was planning to reduce train length in an effort to prevent future incidents. Sources tell CNBC the email was given to Norfolk Southern yard managers, who are union workers in charge of stacking the trains. Norfolk Southern told CNBC other railroad carriers currently have this safety practice in place. "At Norfolk Southern, the safety of our crews and the communities we serve comes first," Connor Spielmaker, spokesman for Norfolk Southern, wrote via email. Norfolk Southern told CNBC it is actively reviewing all safety protocols to make sure trains are operating appropriately across the network.
☆ Norfolk Southern’s Second Ohio Derailment Is Investigated
  + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Ginger Adams Otis | Costas Paris | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Officials on Sunday were investigating what caused a Norfolk Southern Corp. train to leave a track near Springfield, Ohio, in the company’s second derailment in the state in recent weeks. Unlike the Feb. 3 derailment near East Palestine, Ohio, which spilled toxic chemicals, no hazardous materials were aboard the train that went off track on Saturday, officials said.
☆ Another Norfolk Southern train derails in Ohio, railroad says no toxins aboard
  + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Brad Brooks | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
Norfolk Southern said the train that derailed near Springfield was not carrying any hazardous materials and that no one was hurt. The accident follows the Feb. 3 derailment of a Norfolk Southern train in East Palestine, Ohio, 180 miles (290 km)northeast of Springfield. Norfolk Southern said in an emailed statement that Saturday's derailment of about 20 cars of a 212-car train happened as it was traveling southbound near Springfield. "No hazardous materials are involved and there have been no reported injuries," Norfolk Southern said. "We don't believe hazardous materials were involved," he said.
☆ Another Norfolk Southern train has derailed in Ohio, causing mass power outages
  + stars: | 2023-03-05 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
A Norfolk Southern train derailed on Saturday in Springfield, Ohio. This is the second Norfolk Southern to come off the tracks in just over a month, following the derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3. Clark County officials said that the second train was not carrying any hazardous materials, and no one was hurt, according to a Facebook statement. County officials said 20 of the 212 cars derailed, with four tankers carrying Diesel Exhaust Fluid Polyacrylamide Water Solution. —Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) March 5, 2023The crash has caused more than 1,500 residents to lose power as a result of downed power lines, with Clark County officials saying they are unsure of when this will be restored.
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