On Flight 1380 on April 17, 2018, from New York to Dallas, a fan blade on the left engine broke loose, tore apart the engine and sent debris careening toward the fuselage. Debris shattered a window, causing an explosive decompression. A passenger was nearly sucked out of the plane. She died later from her injuries.
In heart of Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, a first-of-its-kind family shelter takes shape for Mary’s Place
The Mary's Place shelter in Seattle will have room for 275 moms, dads and kids, an 18% increase in emergency shelter beds available to families with children in King County. Amazon says it is contributing more than $100 million to Mary's Place over the next decade. VIEW
What goes up must come down: Genie, maker of construction lifts, is already feeling a slowdown
Genie, which makes the bright blue construction lifts that are nearly ubiquitous in booming regions like ours, has long served as an informal leading indicator for the construction business, which in turn is a key driver for the global economy.
GM strike’s economic toll: idle trucks, packed warehouses
Much of the pain from the strike, now in its fourth week, is concentrated in the northern Midwest, which was already contending with a manufacturing slowdown. VIEW
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Average US price of gas unchanged over past 2 weeks
CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has remained at $2.73 a gallon over the past two weeks. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that within the average, prices in more than half of the cities surveyed fell by several cents while prices mostly rose in cities...