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  • FILE – Norfolk Southern locomotives are moved through the Conway Terminal in Conway, Pa., June 17, 2023. The activist investors trying to take control of Norfolk Southern’s board are picking up key support, but the railroad’s CEO promised Monday, April 29, 2024, to continue fighting until the May 9 vote because he believes his strategy is the best in the long run for investors, customers and workers. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)Finance

    Activist investors aiming to take over Norfolk Southern gain momentum before key shareholder vote on embattled railroad’s future

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Marc BenioffLeadership

    Marc Benioff replaces Warren Buffett in private lunch auction for California charity that raised $53 million

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • East Palestine, OhioEnvironment

    Norfolk Southern settles fiery Ohio derailment class action lawsuit for $600 million

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Debris from a Norfolk Southern freight train lies scattered and burning along the tracks on Feb. 4, 2023, the day after it derailed in East Palestine, Ohio. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)Environment

    EPA never declared a public health emergency after fiery 2023 Norfolk Southern derailment that spilled and burned toxic chemicals in Ohio

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Smoke fills the sky after an empty CSX coal train hit a rockslide along tracks causing a fiery derailment, March 8, 2023, in a remote area just south of Sandstone, W.Va. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has reiterated his concerns about railroad safety and scolded the industry for not doing more to improve since last year’s fiery Ohio derailment. (Jenny Harnish/The Register-Herald via AP, file)Politics

    Buttigieg is scolding railroads for not doing enough to improve safety after fiery 2023 Ohio derailment: ‘The rate should be going down—and fast’

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Cleanup of a creek is underway in the aftermath of a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. Norfolk Southern alone will be responsible for paying for the cleanup after last year’s fiery train derailment in eastern Ohio, a federal judge ruled, Wednesday, March 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)Finance

    Norfolk Southern has to pay for cleanup of fiery Ohio train derailment all by itself, federal judge rules

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Warren BuffettFinance

    Warren Buffett on markets’ ‘casino-like’ behavior, avoiding snake-oil salesmen and when Charlie Munger told him he made a big mistake

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Warren Buffett, Charlie MungerFinance

    Warren Buffett pays tribute to Berkshire Hathaway ‘architect’ Charlie Munger in annual letter

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • Trains at a Norfolk Southern rail yard in ChicagoPolitics

    Norfolk Southern is first big U.S. freight railway to let workers use anonymous federal safety hotline in wake of last year’s fiery Ohio derailment

    By Josh Funk and The Associated Press
  • 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