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  • Terry Jon MartinLifestyle

    ‘Old habits die hard’: Aging mobster comes clean on ‘final score’ to steal Judy Garland’s $1 million-valued ruby slippers

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Norfolk SouthernEnvironment

    ‘This program was always a temporary one’: Norfolk Southern spent over $21 million to relocate Ohioans displaced by fiery crash but that’s ending

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Warren BuffettLeadership

    Buffett’s Berkshire bribery battle with billionaire Haslam family set for trial after January

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Jimmy HaslamFinance

    Truck-stop billionaire’s lawyer calls bribery claims from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway a ‘wild invention’

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Egg FarmHealth

    An Ohio egg farm is slaughtering over 1.3 million chickens because it’s nervous bird flu spread throughout the flock

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • A Union Pacific train sits in Lexington, Nebraska, U.SLeadership

    Union Pacific’s hazmat shipping processes under the microscope as toxic acid explosion in Nebraska remains unresolved

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • broiler chickens eat food close-up on a poultry farm. Food industrial production of chickens.Health

    Nearly 1 million chickens will be slaughtered on a Minnesota farm. The reason: bird flu

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Rescue personnel work at the scene of a Metrolink commuter train collision in the Chatsworth area of Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 12, 2008. The National Transportation Safety Board issued a report Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023, urging the Federal Railroad Administration and the industry to keep developing new technology that can be used to improve Positive Train Control systems. But their recommendations include at least one practical idea that railroads could likely implement relatively quickly. (AP Photo/Hector Mata, File)Politics

    Norfolk Southern’s fiery Ohio derailment made railroad safety an issue. Now the NTSB says the automatic braking system needs to be improved

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Charlie Munger attends the annual Berkshire shareholders meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, May 3, 2019. (Photo by Johannes EISELE / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images)Lifestyle

    Warren Buffett lieutenant Charlie Munger gives $40 million in stock to Southern California museum

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The CSX logo is affixed on a surface, July 15, 2013, Nashville, Tenn. Much of the reaction to the death of a rail worker who mistakenly stepped in front of two CSX locomotives on Sept. 17, 2023, in Ohio has focused on whether that 19-year veteran should have seen the train coming and not on the actions of the worker who could hardly see the front of the locomotives he or she was operating using a remote control. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)Tech

    CSX too focused on profits to invest in safety technology, says rail union president after worker’s death

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A Union Pacific train travels through Union, Neb., July 31, 2018. The federal government has joined a number of former workers in suing Union Pacific over the way it used its own vision test to disqualify workers the railroad believed were color blind and might have trouble reading signals telling them to stop a train. The new lawsuit was announced Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik, File)Finance

    Union Pacific sued by U.S. government and former employees over flawed vision test used to disqualify color blind railroad workers

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Customers walk to a CVS Pharmacy, Friday, Nov 4, 2022, in Boston. CVS made a move Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023, to make frustrated pharmacists in the Kansas City-area to call off a walkout. It promised to boost hiring to ease overwhelming workloads that sometimes make it hard to take a bathroom break. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, FIle)Success

    CVS is promising to boost hiring after overworked pharmacists don’t show up, but longterm solution to worker shortage is elusive

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • East Palestine derailmentEnvironment

    Biden to federal government: Hold Norfolk Southern accountable for the East Palestine derailment

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • OHIO, UNITED STATES – FEBRUARY 17: (—-EDITORIAL USE ONLY â MANDATORY CREDIT – “UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (EPA) / HANDOUT” – NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS – DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS—-) Smoke and flames rise after after the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, United States on February 17, 2023. The train derailment happened on Feb. 3 in which 38 cars derailed, including 11 containing hazardous materials, forcing hundreds of residents to evacuate for several days. (Photo by US Environmental Protection Agency / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)Environment

    Norfolk Southern to pay Ohio town residents for any lost home value after a train crash and resulting health worries decimated the local economy

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • CSX trainFinance

    Railroad union says ‘enough is enough’ after remote-controlled train crushes worker to death over the weekend

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press