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• Storey County eyed for private prison by Tennessee giant
VIRGINIA CITY, Nev. (AP) -- A Tennessee company is considering building a privately run prison at an industrial park in Storey County. Nashville-based Corrections Corporation of America , the largest private prison business in the country, has ...
• Great Lakes fear: Invasion of the monkey goby
Perhaps the most notorious are the fish-killing sea lamprey and the zebra mussel, which has clogged intake pipes of power plants, industrial facilities and public water systems, forcing them to spend hundreds of millions on cleanup and repairs. ...
• Wal-Mart warning helps send stocks lower
NEW YORK - A profit warning from Wal-Mart Thursday touched off fresh worries about consumers’ willingness to spend and sent stocks lower for a second session. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 100 points. The nation’s largest retailer said ...
• N.Y. adopts clean air rules stricter than EPA's
ALBANY, N.Y. - New York environmental regulators adopted stricter air pollution rules on Tuesday to prevent power plants and factories from belching out more smog and soot. Under rules adopted by the New York State Environmental Board, new industrial ...
• Bank of America sells China bank stake
Shares in China's biggest state-owned lender, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., also fell sharply. Bank of America, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, bought 9 percent of the Chinese bank in 2005 for $3 billion and the two launched a ...