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What Smithfield's move could mean for environment, economy
Besides 120 acres of prime downtown real estate, Sioux Falls city leaders got something that has sometimes been elusive over the history of the Smithfield pork plant: an assurance that it’s not leaving.
That’s also good news for hundreds of farmers in three states that supply the 20,000 hogs slaughtered each day at w ... (full story)
Government penalizes businesses over 6 deaths at Colorado dairy
Federal workplace safety regulators penalized three businesses Feb. 24 over their failure to protect six Colorado dairy workers who were killed by exposure to highly toxic hydrogen sulfide gas after a manure pipe disconnected in an enclosed space.
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced proposed fines to ... (full story)
Appeals court overturns finding that BNSF Railway contributed to 2 asbestos deaths in a Montana town
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal appeals court has overturned a judge’s finding that BNSF Railway contributed to the deaths of two people in a Montana mining town where thousands have been sickened by asbestos exposure.
Following a civil trial, a jury in 2024 awarded $4 million each to the estates of the two people w ... (full story)
Penguins in party hats? Birthday cards cheer families of babies treated for botulism
The California program that provides the world’s only medical treatment for potentially deadly infant botulism also offers traumatized families hope of a different sort – silly cards on their babies’ first birthdays.
Every year, staff at the state’s Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Program decorat ... (full story)
Louvre Museum director resigns in wake of brazen October crown jewel heist in Paris
PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum's director resigned Feb, 24, ending months of questions in France’s cultural world over why no top official had stepped down after the October crown jewels theft.
Laurence des Cars' departure closed a bruising chapter for the world’s biggest museum. It came as the Louvre faces a w ... (full story)