BALTIMORE — A Baltimore publisher is suing the companies behind the massive cargo ship that collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge last month, saying they were negligent for allowing an allegedly unseaworthy ship to sail ahead of the catastrophic crash that killed six people.

American Publishing LLC, based in Essex, filed the proposed class ...Read more

On a recent Friday, more than 20 labor activists stood outside Wells Fargo operations in uptown and the university area of Charlotte, North Carolina, passing out flyers to employees about their right to form a union — a move sure to displease the bank bosses.

One picture on the flyer showed a group of smiling workers in Apex, the first North ...Read more

A controversial housing law that abolished single-family zoning across California has been ruled unconstitutional by a Los Angeles County judge — but the narrow ruling is likely to be appealed by the state.

Passed in 2021, SB 9 allows single-family homeowners to split their lots in two and build two homes on each lot — allowing up to four ...Read more

Ooooh. That’s pretty, isn’t it? It’s the Maserati’s newest EV, the 2025 Maserati GranCabrio Folgore, a pure battery electric, two-door, four-seat convertible, a model in a class of one. It took nearly eight years to arrive from initial conception, but there’s a reason for that.

“We knew we had to create rolling sculpture,” said ...Read more

Detergent and deodorant, toothpaste, the entire shampoo aisle.

"It's all locked up," Corey Potter sighed, describing shelves encased behind security glass at a Target near her home in Los Angeles' Echo Park neighborhood. "I hate it."

Potter recalled once waiting 15 minutes for an employee to unlock a case at another Target location. These days...Read more

Lisa Mabley was laid off a year ago from her job as a software engineer at a Twin Cities software company. Over the course of five months, she sent her résumé to nearly 300 companies.

She received just two offers at the end.

"The one that I did not accept has (since) had layoffs," said Mabley, who lives in Minneapolis. "If I had taken the ...Read more

OAKLAND, California — The first commercial hydrogen fuel station for big-rig trucks in the U.S. is up and running at the Port of Oakland, a baby step toward what hydrogen proponents see as a clean new future for long-haul trucking.

The small station, now serving 30 hydrogen fuel-cell trucks, could mark the start of a nationwide network for ...Read more

OAKLAND COUNTY, Michigan — Luxury cars are becoming Brookstone gadget stores on wheels. Who needs to drive them? They’re just fun to play with.

Take the 2024 Genesis G90 sitting in my driveway.

With the key in my pocket, I walked up to the Genesis and it rolled out the red carpet. Make that lit carpet. A Genesis logo splashed on the ground...Read more

The luxury midsize coupe is becoming increasingly popular in the consumer market, and BMW is easily the leader of the pack with its X6. Featured in Grasso's Garage this week is the BMW X6 xDrive40i, adorned in Aventurin Red Metallic — a fiery red/orange metallic hue that is a stunning display of beauty, at least to my eyes.

Equipped with an ...Read more

ATLANTA -- The entrepreneurs who arrived for the awards ceremony in a vast Cobb County ballroom wore tuxedos and gowns, suits and vibrant colors. One woman sported an eye patch with a sparkly skull and cross bones, like a glam pirate.

Some rolled in on wheelchairs, relied on canes, or covered their feeding tubes with their evening wear.

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WASHINGTON — Michigan will be among four new "workforce hubs" designated to help prepare workers for new manufacturing jobs, the White House said Thursday. The Michigan hub will focus specifically on electric vehicles.

The effort — a collaboration between federal and state agencies — is meant to train or retrain workers through ...Read more

A bill that would require insurers to factor in wildfire protection efforts when determining whether to cover properties moved forward Wednesday, despite concerns from lawmakers and strong opposition from insurance companies.

Sen. Josh Becker, a Democrat who represents the Menlo Park area, said during a hearing that the proposal will help ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom said Thursday that California continued to rapidly add the battery storage that is crucial to the transition to cleaner energy, but admitted it was still not enough to avoid blackouts during heat waves.

Standing in the middle of a solar farm in Yolo County, Newsom announced the state now had battery storage systems with the ...Read more

The Federal Communications Commission has approved a rule which will reclassify broadband internet as a telecommunications service subject to federal oversight, reestablishing the so-called “ net neutrality” policy done away with under the Trump Administration.

In a 3–2 vote taken Thursday, the nation’s top communications regulators ...Read more

DHL has agreed to pay $8.7 million to resolve a long running lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging the delivery company discriminated against Black workers in the Chicago area.

The EEOC accused the company of assigning Black workers to routes in neighborhoods with higher crime rates, segregating Black and white...Read more

U.S. economic growth slid to an almost two-year low last quarter while inflation jumped to uncomfortable levels, interrupting a run of strong demand and muted price pressures that had fueled optimism for a soft landing.

Gross domestic product increased at a 1.6% annualized rate, below all economists’ forecasts, the government’s initial ...Read more