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Unlike the showboating Battleship North Carolina, now a tourist attraction with a famous profile, the Navy's newest USS North Carolina will be a sleek nuclear submarine that aims to stay out of sight.When the sub joins the fleet in about two years, it will carry some of the military's newest gadgets. The ship will be able to attack with missiles, torpedoes and mines or skulk silently to snoop or drop off special operations teams.The sub, under construction at a Virginia shipyard, will be the fourth Navy vessel to carry the North Carolina name. It also will be the fourth in a new class of submarines designed for warfare after the Cold War, when the primary adversary was the Soviet Union.The Navy says the sub will cost $2.4 billion. But taxpayers will spend $95.8 billion to build all 30 Virginia-class submarines, a cost of $3.2 billion per ship, according to the most recent acquisition report published by the Department of Defense.
WHITE PLAINS - High winds knocked a construction worker into a stairwell and caused police to close off traffic around the high-rise hotel construction project in the center of downtown this afternoon. Deputy Public Safety Commissioner Daniel Jackson said workers were trying to clear all loose building materials from the site of the Ritz-Carlton hotel project, which began blowing off the building as high winds picked up this afternoon when the man was injured. "The building inspector ordered everyone off the structure and we're going to keep the streets closed until the wind dies down," Jackson said. "It will probably be for the whole night and this is going to cause a lot of congestion downtown." Main Street eastbound at Martin Luther King Boulevard and Mamaroneck Avenue northbound at Martine Avenue have been closed to vehicular and pedestrian traffic until further notice, jackson said.
Kansas City-based Alternative Energy Sources Inc. said today it plans to construct a third ethanol plant, though it continues to seek construction financing for all of the facilities. Alternative Energy said it has taken an option on 100 acres at a business park in Greenville, Ill., which is 45 miles east of St. Louis. The site is served by the Illinois Western Railroad on tracks adjacent to the acreage. It also has easy access to the interstate highway system. Alternative Energy's announcement said construction on this third plant would begin within the next year, with the plant in operation in late 2008. Like two others the company announced, the Greenville plant would produce about 110 million gallons of ethanol a year. This is the third site on which Alternative Energy has acquired an option with plans to build an ethanol plant.
Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006 | San Diego homebuyers have a lot of decisions to make. They have to sift through thousands of homes currently on the market to find the perfect fit at an attainable price. And then they face a slew of aggressive marketing techniques from homebuilders.Homebuilders responded to the sizzling home market of a few years ago by increasing production to meet sky-scraping demand for homes. Now that sales have slowed, the number of homes sitting unsold on the market has grown. Nearly 30,000 new and resale homes were on the market as of the beginning of October, according to a new report from MarketPointe Realty Advisors. And that doesn't count the number of housing units under construction -- more than 10,000. The number of homes for sale is up more than 50 percent from the third quarter 2005, and up 135 percent from the same period 2004.
In the green industry, there is a lesson to be learned every day, according to Frank Mariani, CEO of Mariani Landscape based in Lake Bluff, Ill. And to make the most of these lessons, landscape contractors need to apply them in ways that work for their businesses. Mariani shared his business philosophy at the Oct. 19 meeting of the Ohio Landscape Association held at Southwest Landscape Management and Land Creations Landscaping in Columbia Station, Ohio. "But dont follow everything I say like the gospel, Mariani says. You have to do what works for you. .
(CBS) BLYTHE, Calif. Part of Highway 95 was closed Tuesday after a fatal accident involving a mobile home and a big rig, according to the California Highway Patrol. The three-vehicle accident occurred on the southbound Highway 95 outside Blythe at 8:40 a.m. Tuesday morning. The Riverside County Coroner's Office was called after reports of a deceased person that was "completely trapped" in one of the three vehicles involved, according to the CHP. The crash initially closed both the north and southbound lanes of Highway 95, according to the CHP. A SigAlert was issued after 9 a.m., indicating a "long term closure" of "one to two hours." Southbound traffic was rerouted through the Agnes Wilson Bridge to reconnect with the highway in Arizona, according to the CHP. Blythe CHP dispatchers could not immediately provide additional details.
BALTIMORE - Gov. Robert Ehrlich is pledging to include the same amount of money for school construction in his upcoming budget that was in the budget for the current fiscal year - an amount that Democrats and advocacy groups quickly criticized as inadequate. Ehrlich will commit $338 million for school construction in the budget for fiscal year 2008, he said Thursday at the site of a new high school in Ijamsville. For the fiscal 2007 budget, Ehrlich initially pledged $281 million, but subsequent negotiations with the General Assembly brought the total to $338 million. Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley, a Democrat running against Ehrlich, has pledged to include $400 million in school construction funding in his initial budget. In his recent debates with Ehrlich, O'Malley argued that too many Maryland children are attending classes in temporary trailers.
A deadly mobile home fire over the weekend has turned into a murder investigation. One man died, a woman is in critical condition, and police believe someone set the fire intentionally. Flames broke out early Sunday morning at the Tropicana Village mobile home park. The survivor is barely hanging on right now, according to police. The woman, thought to be in her early twenties, has burns and took in quite a bit of smoke. The man in the mobile home with her died in the fire and police believe someone had it in for the two of them. The couple was sleeping in the front bedroom as the mobile home filled with smoke. Fire investigators say they don't have an exact cause yet, but Metro Homicide detectives have already zeroed in on the man they think set the place on fire.
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