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TEWKSBURY — After a significant tenure on the Board of Health, chair Ray Barry is stepping down.

My dream was to have my own company. will: you got a family with three sons in the business, at least two grandchildren. its a family affair. >> these guys that work on the rig, the guys that help us with perfection, they become part of that family too. without them we cannot do what we do. will: during the drilling phase this thing is operating 24 hours a day? >> 24 hours a day, seven days a week. will: this is an operational rig. that means the drilling crew took a quick timeout and quick brea...

The rescue of children. the orlando home where casey anthony lived with her paints and the woods near where the body of her daughter were found is facing foreclosure. the parents have not made a mortgage payment since january of 2011. they owe more than $128,000. a fire is still raging in northern texas after a drilling crew punctured a gas pipeline. a blind man and his service dog for forced off a u.s. air ways flight after the dog left its seat and wandered the aisle during a delay. acco...

Some of these women are trading in minimum wage jobs for salaries in the six figures. abcs sharyn alfonsi has more. >> reporter: underneath the blue overalls and the steel-toed books in with the carlos and sauls, she is a pioneer of a new gold rush. >> get our keys for our truck. >> reporter: when linda trujillo heard about the big money being made in americas oil boom, she quit her fast food job and moved her family from new mexico. >> i was like, i need to make something better for my kids, so...

good morning. it is thursday, september 15th. this is your "a.m. wake-up call." im carol costello. get ready for the president response to president obamas jobs bill. he and the rest of congress have had a few days to leaf through the jobs plan, the obama jobs plan. so now well just have to wait and see whether boehner picks a fight over the plan or offers an olive branch. president obama is already taking indirect swipes at congressional republican. listen to what he told the congress...

The first piece of good news unfolded. >> i can tell you as i was out here in the days after it started, and this would have been brown oil. even though it looks bad, it looks better than in the first few days. and thats sitting on top of the well. yesterday we got 15,000 barrels of oil up there. if that had not been there, it would be oil in the sea. >> reporter: its clear it has had a profound affect on the drilling crew. they serve as the technicians hands and eyes in the crushing depths of t...