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Firefighters work to put out a blaze after an explosion at Brent Industries, Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2026, in Toledo, Ohio.
Explosions, Fire Tear Through Industrial Recycling Building in Ohio
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U.S. Sen. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind railed against Carrier Corp. for moving manufacturing jobs to Mexico last year, even while he profited from a family business that relies on Mexican labor to produce dye for ink pads, according to records reviewed by The Associated Press.
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InfinitPipe inventor and QuakeWrap, Inc. President Dr. Mo Ehsani stands next to the prototype of the machine that makes continuous, on-site pipe manufacturing possible, including from truck or boat.
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Rice University engineers have built a lab prototype of a flat microscope they are developing as part of DARPA's Neural Engineering System Design project. The microscope will sit on the surface of the brain, where it will detect optical signals from neurons in the cortex. The goal is to provide an alternate path for sight and sound to be delivered directly to the brain.
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In this Friday, July 30, 2004 file photo, the U.S.S. Virginia returns to the Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton Conn., after its first sea trials. A Navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American nuclear-powered submarines to someone he thought was a representative of a foreign government but who turned out to be an undercover FBI agent, the Justice Department said Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021.
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Navy Nuclear Engineer Charged with Trying to Pass Secrets
He was selling information to an undercover FBI agent.
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A tugboat with a barge attached sits near a boat ramp at Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, in Millington, Tenn. A crack in the Interstate 40 bridge linking Tennessee and Arkansas has shut down Mississippi River traffic near Memphis, forcing tugs that are hauling barges to wait until they receive clearance that it's safe to pass under the closed bridge.
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Mississippi River Traffic Reopens Under Damaged Bridge
More than 45 tug boats hauling about 700 barges had been idled, waiting for clearance.
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In this undated image released by the Tennessee Department of Transportation shows a crack is in a steel beam on the Interstate 40 bridge, near Memphis, Tenn. The Tennessee Department of Transportation says the crack is in a 900-foot steel beam that provides stability for the Interstate 40 bridge that connects Arkansas and Tennessee over the Mississippi River. The bridge was closed Tuesday, May 11, 2021 after inspectors found the crack.
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Repairs to Interstate Bridge Could Take Months
Engineers are still struggling to determine if the bridge can hold its own weight and the weight of construction crews.
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In this March 21, 2019 file photo, Whitney Flynn, a physical scientist at the National Water Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., works on computer screens showing flood predictions and other information. An arsenal of new technology is being put to the test fighting floods this year as rivers inundate towns and farm fields across the central United States. Drones, supercomputers and sonar that scans deep under water are helping to maintain flood control projects, and predicting just where rivers will roar out of their banks.
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Drones, Supercomputers Deployed Against Floods
These tools are putting detailed information to use in real time.
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This 2018 photo provided by the Menlo Fire UAS shows a DJI drone with a thermal-imaging camera designed by FLIR Systems in Menlo Park, Calif. Law enforcement officers used heat-seeking drones like this to search for victims of the tornadoes that ravaged a rural corner of Alabama on Sunday, March 3, 2019.
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Heat-Seeking Drones Used After Tornado
The drones looked for survivors underneath the rubble.
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The former Gibson Guitar factory sits empty in downtown Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019. FedEx Logistics announced Tuesday, it is establishing a new headquarters in the building.
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FedEx Logistics Establishes New HQ
350 new jobs will be created.
February 14, 2019
In this Thursday, Jan. 9, 2014, file photo, workers assemble ovens at the new Electrolux home cooking appliance factory in Memphis, Tenn. Electrolux says it is stopping production at its Memphis, Tennessee, factory while investing $250 million in a separate facility in the state. The Stockholm-based maker of Frigidaire products said Thursday that it is consolidating all U.S. cooking manufacturing into its facility in Springfield.
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Electrolux to Shut Down Memphis Plant
Meanwhile, the company will invest $250 million in another facility in the state,
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Doug Ketchum and his wife Mary pose with their daughter Stacie at their Memphis liquor store, Kimbrough Wine & Spirits.
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Fight for Liquor License
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In this June 25, 2018, file photo, Tyrone Grayer, left, and David Allen Hall inspect a soybean plant at their farm in Parchman, Miss. A judge is ordering settlement talks in a lawsuit filed by black farmers from Mississippi and Tennessee including Hall and Grayer, who claim Stine Seed Co. sold them faulty soybean seeds because of their race.
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Judge Orders Talks in Soybean Suit
A group of black plaintiffs allege a seed company sold them faulty, low-yield seeds because of their race.
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In this June 25, 2018, photo, Tyrone Grayer, left, and David Allen Hall inspect a soybean plant at their farm in Parchman, Miss. Hall and Grayer are among a group of black farmers in Tennessee and Mississippi who are suing Stine Seed Co., claiming the seeds were switched and they were given faulty, low-yield seeds.
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Farmers Claim They Were Sold Faulty Seeds
The accused company said it did not engage in "a racially-motivated conspiracy to secretly switch the soybeans."
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New Tyson Facility Will Create 1,500 Jobs
The $300 million project that is expected to begins operations in late 2019.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority's coal-burning Allen Fossil Plant on Friday, July 14, 2017 in Memphis, Tenn. Groundwater in wells at the plant have tested for excessive levels of arsenic and lead.
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Toxins Discovered in Water Under Power Plant
Alarms went off after it was revealed that high levels of arsenic and lead had been found in groundwater beneath the coal-fired Allen Fossil Plant.
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