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GE Transportation cuts more than 1,500 jobs

ERIE, Pa. — GE Transportation is cutting more than 1,500 jobs in northwestern Pennsylvania.

The company announced Tuesday that it would make permanent 1,200 temporary layoffs that were announced in February at its factory near Erie, which makes electric locomotives. In addition, 230 hourly jobs and 50 salaried jobs are being cut there. Another 200 people are losing their jobs at an engine plant in Grove City.

The company will have fewer than 4,000 workers in northwestern Pennsylvania after the layoffs, which take effect in 60 days.

Cleveland Clinic seeks to open center in Las Vegas

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Clinic wants to open a medical center in Las Vegas, where it already manages a brain center.

The Clinic owns 12 acres that is part of a major downtown Las Vegas redevelopment project called Symphony Park. Under a tentative agreement to be voted on by the Las Vegas city council today, the Clinic will come up with plans and financing for its facility by November 2010.

Clinic spokeswoman Erinne Dyer says it’s too soon to say which services will be provided at the new building, next-door to the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health. The clinic began running that facility earlier this year.

Associated Press