Margaret Stafford

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FILE - In this Feb. 1, 2017, file photo, Brooklyn College students walk between classes on campus in New York. The New York state Legislature approved a budget on April 9, 2017, that includes funding for Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan to offer free tuition for middle class students at state universities.
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In this May 1, 2014, file photo survey crews in boats look over tanker cars as workers remove damaged tanker cars along the tracks where several CSX tanker cars carrying crude oil derailed and caught fire along the James River near downtown Lynchburg, Va. Inspectors have found almost 24,000 safety defects over a two-year period along United States railroad routes used to ship volatile crude oil. Data obtained by The Associated Press shows many of the defects were similar to problems blamed in past derailments that caused massive fires or oil spills in Oregon, Virginia and Montana.
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Thousands of Defects Found in Oil Transport
In this Tuesday, March 14, 2017, file photo, United States Trade Representative-nominee Robert Lighthizer testifies before the Senate Finance Committee during his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. As President Donald Trump’s choice to be U.S. trade representative, Lighthizer would be empowered to renegotiate and enforce trade deals, many of which the president has condemned as destroyers of American jobs.
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In this July 23, 2018 file photo, a duck boat that sank in Table Rock Lake in Branson, Mo., is raised after it went down the evening of July 19 after a thunderstorm generated near-hurricane strength winds, killing 17 people. A federal indictment released Thursday, Nov. 8, 2018, charges the boat's captain Kenneth Scott McKee with 17 counts of misconduct, negligence or inattention to duty by a ship's officer, resulting in death.
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MO Duck Boat Captain Indicted
17 deaths occurred after the duck boat, a refurbished amphibious vessel originally used by the military during World War II, sank during a storm in July .
November 9, 2018
In this July 23, 2018, file photo, the duck boat that sank in Table Rock Lake in Branson, Mo., is raised. A lawsuit seeking $100 million in damages was filed Sunday, July 29, against the owners and operators of the duck boat that sank July 19.
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Fatal Duck Boat Lawsuit Seeks $100M
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In this Oct. 21, 2016 file photo emergency workers clean various items inside a decontamination tent at Mosaic Life Care, in Atchison, Kan. Federal investigators say Human error and problems with design and labeling led to the release of a large chemical cloud over the city that sent more than 140 people to the hospital last year. The chemical release from MGP Ingredients in Atchison, occurred when a delivery truck driver inadvertently unloaded sulfuric acid into a tank that contained sodium hypochlorite.
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Human Error Led to Chemical Cloud
The chemical release from MGP Ingredients in Atchison, Kansas, occurred when a delivery truck driver inadvertently unloaded sulfuric acid into a tank that contained sodium hypochlorite.
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This photo from video by KCTV5 shows damage to the side of a building in the aftermath of a fatal explosion at the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant in Independence, Mo., Tuesday, April 11, 2017.
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Explosion at Ammunition Plant Kills 1
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