The data-storage unit that failed last week, wreaking havoc in the computer networks of a number of Virginia agencies, is technology used by virtually every major company and government in the country.
There’s no shortage of reform ideas in this year’s gubernatorial campaigns. But there aren’t many specifics about how the huge budget gaps that exist in most states can be resolved.
MARSHALL, Mich. -- Enbridge Pipelines LLC has applied for a permit from the state of Michigan to perform work on pipelines it operates that cross the Straits of Mackinac.
NJ Transit hopes to make WiFi available to train riders by next year, according to a report on Philly.com.
More than a third of supply managers in nine Midwest and Great Plains states surveyed for a regional business index expect the U.S. economy to fall into another recession next year, even as key measures of the index remained positive.
A Wichita judge was right on target with both his ruling and his comments concerning an effort to exempt that city from the statewide smoking ban that went into effect July 1.
These are anxious times in the hotel industry. The pests — which hide in mattresses and bite people while they sleep — are constantly in the news, and no place feels safe anymore. Bedbugs have been reported everywhere from basement apartments to college campuses to the Empire State Building. Suddenly everyone is tearing off sheets and turning over mattresses.
The Richmond region's unemployment rate rose in July, likely reflecting that more people have been actively seeking work. The region's jobless rate stood at 8 percent in July, according to figures posted by the Virginia Employment Commission yesterday. That was up from 7.9 percent in June and 7.8 percent in July 2009.
Tens of thousands told to evacuate islands off North Carolina as US east coast braces for hurricane-force winds and rain
Tens of thousands of people were told to evacuate islands off North Carolina last night and hundreds of thousands more warned to expect hurricane-force winds and heavy rain across the US north-eastern coast as hurricane Earl came within about 85 miles of the shore, bringing heavy rain and strong winds.
More states along the east coast declared emergencies as shelters were prepared and residents as far north as New England were told to expect fallen power lines and trees over the Labour Day holiday weekend.
Despite signs that the hurricane's force was weakening and its centre would miss much of the US mainland, families from North Carolina through Virginia to Delaware were warned to act on their own disaster plans, including evacuating exposed islands and boats. Warnings were also issued for part of Nova Scotia in Canada.
Those living on other parts of the heavily populated coast, including favourite holiday areas around Cape Cod and Nantucket Island, were told to prepare similar plans, while those in New York's Long Island, Connecticut and Maine were told Earl may only be a tropical storm by the time it reached them.
The warnings from the National Hurricane Centre in Miami came as forecasters hoped the main force of the hurricane which caused havoc in the north-east Caribbean earlier this week would remain off shore as it hit cooler waters, and would curve away from mid-Atlantic states such as New Jersey.
"The storm won't be as strong, but they spread out as they go north and the rain will be spreading from New England," the centre's director, Bill Read, said.
State governors in Massachusetts and Rhode Island yesterday followed declarations of emergency by their counterparts in North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland. On Wednesday Barack Obama authorised federal co-ordination of disaster measures.
North Carolina shut down ferry services between islands and the mainland. Boats were being pulled from the water around Boston, and lobstermen in Maine set their traps out in deeper water to protect them.
Last night, the winds had slowed to 105mph (hurricane category 2 strength) from 140mph early yesterday (hurricane category 4 strength, one short of the most powerful category 5). But forecasters warned that it remained powerful, with hurricane-force winds of 74mph or more extending 70 miles from its centre and tropical storm-force winds of at least 35mph reaching more than 200 miles out.
It was not clear how many residents and tourists had heeded the warning to evacuate islands off North Carolina. But Federal emergency management agency administrator Craig Fugate said people should not wait for the next forecast before acting.
"This is a day of action. Conditions are going to deteriorate rapidly," he said.
Hundreds of residents on the Outer Banks, a 200-mile string of islands off North Carolina, seemed ready to stay at home behind their boarded-up windows, even though officials warned of a storm surge and that it could be three days before they received any help. It took crews two months to fill the breach and rebuild the only road to the mainland when hurricane Isabel carved a 2000-foot wide channel through the islands in 2003.
Officials warned that once the winds picked up, police, firefighters and paramedics would probably not answer emergency calls.
"Once this storm comes in and becomes serious, once it's at its worst point, we are not going to put any emergency worker in harm's way," the North Carolina governor, Beverly Perdue, said.
An index of Georgia factory activity released Wednesday showed signs of a pause in some activities while the general momentum remains positive.
This week, as the nation marked the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, some people in Cedar Rapids wondered whether their plight from the 2008 flood has been overlooked.
Former Nevada Gov. Richard Bryan, who developed the first Governor's Conference on Tourism more than two decades ago, will be honored at December's revamped two-day event.
GREENWOOD, Ind. -- A distribution company plans to lease much of an empty warehouse in suburban Indianapolis and potentially hire 140 workers.
Faced with continuing concerns from neighbors about congestion and safety, the city zoning board last night again put off a decision on whether to allow expanded on-street parking near the University of New Hampshire School of Law to accompany a planned addition.
A state senator is organizing a boycott of businesses that advertise during Jan Mickelson's WHO-AM talk-radio program.
Ohio's largest teachers union is having labor problems of its own.
How much profit is too much? American Electric Power is entering a high-stakes argument over what constitutes "significantly excessive" profit.
Wednesday was the deadline for agencies to submit their proposed spending program for the next two fiscal years to the state Budget Office.
Oil and gas representatives had harsh words Wednesday about the first proposed changes to the state's oil and gas leasing contract in nearly three decades.
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