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Explosion rocks Wisconsin refinery, at least 11 hurt
The Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 1:09pm
A tank containing crude oil or asphalt exploded at a large refinery in Wisconsin on Thursday, injuring several people and prompting fire officials to urge people living near the still-burning plant to evacuate their homes.
After tax cuts many saw as a failure, Kansas may cut again
John Hanna, Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 12:10pm
Kansas has some financial breathing room less than a year after legislators reversed past income tax cuts to deal with persistent budget woes that followed what many voters saw as a failed fiscal experiment. Now some Republicans want to go back to slashing taxes.
US lawmakers assail EPA chief over ethical missteps
Michael Biesecker and Ellen Knickmeyer, Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 12:09pm
Lawmakers assailed Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt on Thursday for the ethics and spending scandals that have prompted bipartisan calls for his ouster. On the defensive, the EPA chief said "half-truths" and "twisted" allegations were an effort to undermine the Trump administration's anti-regulatory agenda.
The Latest: 11 hurt in explosion at Wisconsin refinery
The Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 12:04pm
The Latest on a Wisconsin refinery explosion that injured several people (all times local):
Atlanta wants probe into $500K in bonuses given by ex-mayor
The Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 11:38am
Atlanta leaders want to investigate after former Mayor Kasim Reed's administration gave more than $518,000 in bonuses to city employees during Reed's last days in office.
The Latest: Macron hails pledge to fight terror financing
The Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 11:33am
The Latest on the Paris conference on combating terror financing (all times local):
Oregon's struggles tracking pot reflect industrywide problem
Andrew Selsky, Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 11:29am
To the beat of electronic dance music, men and women inside a slate-gray building harvested marijuana plants festooned with radio-frequency identification tags. In another room, an employee entered the tag numbers into a government database.
Union Pacific railroad's 1Q profit climbs 22 percent
Josh Funk, Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 11:29am
Union Pacific Corp.'s first-quarter earnings chugged ahead 22 percent as the railroad hauled 2 percent more freight and increased its prices.
Water exec: Uncertain mix of chemicals from consumer taps
Emery P. Dalesio, Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 11:24am
A public water utility that studied what it was serving its 200,000 North Carolina customers is finding a soup of unregulated industrial chemicals with uncertain health effects, including some that university researchers didn't know existed.
Northwest medical waste treatment plant fined for pollution
The Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 11:20am
A company that treats medical waste from Washington, Oregon and Idaho has been fined for a series of improper releases of polluted wastewater.
Anger over banks' gun policies snags $600M road plan
Melinda Deslatte, Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 11:12am
Louisiana's plans to finance about $600 million in interstate projects got tangled up Thursday in a dispute over moves by two banking giants to restrict gun sales by their business customers.
Facebook and other big tech stocks rally as US indexes climb
Marley Jay, Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 11:09am
U.S. stocks are rising Thursday as Facebook leads a big rally for technology companies. The social media platform jumped after its recent data privacy scandal didn't appear to affect business in the first quarter. Other big technology companies also moved higher, as did retailers. Chipotle Mexican Grill, Ford and Visa also rose after they gave strong first-quarter reports.
The Latest: MGM, Wynn tamp down Boston casino intrigue
The Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 11:09am
The Latest on MGM's plans to open a casino in Massachusetts (all times local):
2 black men 'humiliated' when gym staffers called police
The Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 11:09am
Two black men said they were humiliated when staffers at their New Jersey gym twice called police on them and wrongly accused them of not paying, despite one of them being a member for eight years.
UK lawmakers press to stay in EU customs union after Brexit
The Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 11:09am
British lawmakers are pressing the government to change course and keep the U.K. in a customs union with the European Union after Brexit.
Of Mutual Interest: Are stocks on the comeback trail?
Marley Jay, Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 11:01am
Investors have been uneasy since stocks dived 10 percent in just nine days in early February. The market has seen big losses and big gains since, mostly driven by a trade dispute between the U.S. and China, and has yet to return to the record highs of late January.
UPS reports 15 percent rise in 1Q profit
The Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 10:40am
More deliveries and higher revenue per package boosted first-quarter profit at UPS, but the company was hampered by rising costs as it upgrades its network to keep up with online shopping.
More than 70 countries commit to combat terror financing
Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 10:27am
More than 70 countries committed Thursday to bolster efforts in the fight against terrorism financing associated with the Islamic State group and al-Qaida.
GM 1Q earnings fall 60 percent, triggering stock slide
Tom Krisher, Associated Press | Posted Apr 26th - 10:27am
General Motors' first-quarter net income fell 60 percent from a year ago, and its shares fell even though the numbers beat Wall Street estimates.
