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Moore County Schools (MCS) Thursday announced the establishment of the Frick Technology Achievement Award to support students pursuing STEM-related career pathways.

CEBU CITY - The Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) 7 (Central Visayas) recorded at least 13 job applicants who were hired on the spot (HOT) during its December 8 job fair, "Trabaho, Negosyo, Kabuhayan: A Blended Jobs and Business Fairs". All HOT applicants were hired by a leading apparel manufacturer of a world-renowned sportswear and outdoor wear brand based at the Mactan Export Processing Zone in Lapulapu City, DOLE-7 Director Marion Sevilla said in a news release on Saturday....

Evacuated just yesterday afternoon out of an abundance of caution. the county ordering repairs throughout that courthouse complex after a review initiated following the surfside condo collapse here took place. again, this is sort of the heightened concern here around the greater miami area following that june 24th collapse, lindsey. >> yeah, i will take it here, vaughan. that is a legendary courthouse, its been there since 1928. this is where al capone was placed on trial, but it is an older bui...

Point where it collapsed, and where that weakening came from, why it was caused, needs to be investigated. it could be there was a roof work being done. maybe there was a lot of leakage in the roof, and it allowed that water to get into some of the columns and some of the seal and weaken the structure to the point where it collapsed. that takes a lot of time. thats not something that happens overnight. so you got to have a building engineers go in and determine what happened here and learn from ...

The response of the RICS’s governing council has only inflamed the rebellion. Last month it finally bowed to pressure and said it would set up an independent review after all. But a publication date has not been announced; meanwhile Fontana and Tompkins’ strategic review looking at membership engagement only late last week posted an email address for feedback. In a statement, it said the review will “assess the progress of existing strategic activities, focusing on member experience, memb...

>> reporter: good evening martha. the county has nine casinos all are shutdown. those riverfront casinos arent damaged, they are located over the water, based on barges which rise and lower with the water level. the hotels attached to the casino are on land with the exception of one hotel which suffered minor water damage to the first floor. the other hotels are all on higher ground and not damaged by the water. these casino resources are surrounded by flood waters. so customers cant get out to ...

End, the mississippi delta, saying now the worst is yet to come for them and jonathan serrie is live in tunica, mississippi. how is the local economy taking this hit, it has to be a huge shot in the arm. >> reporter: it is, bill, the area is dependent on revenue from casinos and you can see behind me, they are surrounded by water and escaped any major damage because by law they have to be over water and they float them on barges and they rise and fall with floodwaters but because they are surrou...

>> reporter: good evening martha. the county has nine casinos all are shutdown. those riverfront casinos arent damaged, they are located over the water, based on barges which rise and lower with the water level. the hotels attached to the casino are on land with the exception of one hotel which suffered minor water damage to the first floor. the other hotels are all on higher ground and not damaged by the water. these casino resources are surrounded by flood waters. so customers cant get out to ...

Casinos here in tunica county. as you see this one is just surrounded by water. because the casinos have to be over water they build them on barges that helped out in the flood because the casinos simply rise with the floodwaters. so, very minor if any structural damage to the casinos. but because theyre cut off from the rest of the community they cant get customers out there. so other than skeleton crews of security, and building engineers and repair crews who have been traveling back and forth...

E-mail in the condo association saying that things had gotten substantially worse by april of this year. that raises a lot of questions about whether the structural slabs or columns, the area that appears to have collapsed first, according to experts whether or not that was as bad as what we saw in the photos. >> kwwhat have you heard from local officials or people connected to the building. >> the person who comes up the most is the former building official for surfside, florida, and at first, ...