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Volunteer hopes her work leads to chain reaction
247-7441Beth Hoss believes there is a point in everyone's life when they can use a helping hand or a compassionate ear. She is determined to be one of the people who offer that to others. "My pastor has a saying that I would like to share: 'What you are...Tags: Family, Grumman, Paul Evans, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Bedford (Bedford, Virginia)
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New subs to be named Minnesota, North Dakota
The U.S. Navy says its next two fast-attack submarines will be named Minnesota and North Dakota. The Navy said Tuesday that the new submarines will be the 10th and 11th Virginia-class submarines delivered by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding and its...Tags: Grumman, Armed Forces, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Defense
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Big steel makes coal play; US companies absent
AP Business WriterIt's been more than a century since J.P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and other U.S. steel barons built mining empires that dominated life across wide swaths of Central Appalachia's coalfields, securing essential fuel for their mills. Bits of that history...Tags: Bankruptcy, Iron and Steel, Bethlehem Steel, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., BHP Billiton Plc
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NN shipyard building subs named for Midwest states
247-4744The next two U.S. Navy fast-attack submarines will bear the names of two states in the Upper Midwest, the service announced Tuesday. Minnesota and North Dakota will be the 10th and 11th Virginia-class submarines that Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding and its...Tags: Grumman, Armed Forces, Bedford (Bedford, Virginia), Theodore Roosevelt, Groton
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Shipyard workers complete new home
Workers at Northrop Grumman's Newport News shipyard this week handed over the keys to the sixth Habitat for Humanity home the company has built on the Peninsula, a 1,200 square-foot, three bedroom on 25th Street. Northrop provided volunteers, financial...Tags: Grumman, Society, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Ceremonies
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Today's Regional Mystery
Q: What's going on with the big crane at the Northrop Grumman shipyard in Newport News? A: You must have missed our story on the crane back in May. The shipyard's signature crane is in the midst of a $40 million overhaul "to make it stronger for...Tags: Grumman, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Shipyard names O'Brien to directorship
Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding on Friday announced it has promoted Jim O'Brien to director of test engineering in Newport News. He is responsible for planning and directing test engineering for nuclear-powered submarine and aircraft carrier construction,...Tags: Engineering, Technology, Grumman, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Chicks dig this place, but so do their parents, alas
Tribune correspondentLIHUE, Hawaii — Their high-pitched voices sound off in the distance as the cruise ship makes its way to port in the early morning. "Cock-a-doodle-doo!" The sound of crowing roosters and cackling hens seems to come from all around—the...Tags: Livestock Farming, Disasters, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Natural Disasters
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Sailing on a sea of profits
Fuel prices are soaring and credit markets tightening, but the super-rich are still lining up to pay tens of millions of dollars for mega yachts.
The well-heeled buyers of the floating mansions are increasingly coming from emerging economies - in the...Tags: Government, National Government, Sales, Employees, Petroleum Industry
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Sullivan Hopes Sub Experience Can Help Beat Courtney
Courant Staff WriterIt was a hot, windless day at Asnuntuck Community College and Frank Gulluni, director of the school's Manufacturing Technology Center, was earnestly explaining to a visiting candidate how important it still was to train workers for manufacturing jobs in...Tags: Prices, Government, National Government, Norwich, Metal and Mineral
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