Tuesday, March 28, 2017
King’s restaurants close 5 Pa. locations
PITTSBURGH
King’s Family Restaurants has closed five of its western Pennsylvania restaurants.
The Pittsburgh-area chain was founded in 1967, but was sold two years ago to Kelly Capital, a San Diego, Calif., private equity firm.
Nobody at Kelly or King’s immediately responded to messages left Monday. The chain announced Sunday night that its restaurants in Altoona, Bridgeville, Harmar Township, Imperial and Wexford were closing.
That leaves the chain with 24 locations in western Pennsylvania, including New Castle, and one in eastern Ohio.
Developer: Oil is in pipeline in N. Dakota
The Dakota Access pipeline developer said Monday that it has placed oil in the pipeline under a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota and that it’s preparing to put the pipeline into service.
Dallas-based Energy Transfer Partners made the announcement in a brief court filing with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The announcement marks a significant development in the long battle over the project that will move North Dakota oil 2000 miles through South Dakota and Iowa to a shipping point in Illinois. The pipeline is three months behind schedule due to large protests and the objections of two American Indian tribes who say it threatens their water supply and cultural sites.
ETP’s filing did not say when the company expected the pipeline to be completely operating.
At least 3 killed in Oakland building fire
OAKLAND, CALIF.
A fire official says a third body has been recovered from the site of a fire at an Oakland residential building that housed drug addicts, people struggling with homelessness and others.
Oakland Fire Battalion Chief Erik Logan also said Monday that one resident of the building is missing.
Logan says two adults and two children who were taken to a hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries would be released later in the day.
The fire broke out in the rundown neighborhood nearly three months after a warehouse called the Ghost Ship caught fire and killed 36 people attending an unlicensed concert about five miles away.
Records show the building that caught fire has been the target of building department investigations and citations since 2010, when the city allowed the owner to convert the structure into transitional housing.
City records show a building inspector on March 6 had verified a violation involving deferred maintenance.
Mich., Flint to replace 18K tainted waterlines
detroit
Michigan and the city of Flint agreed Monday to replace thousands of home waterlines under a sweeping deal to settle a lawsuit by residents over lead-contaminated water in the struggling community.
Flint will replace at least 18,000 lead or galvanized-steel waterlines by 2020, and the state will pick up the bill with state and federal money, according to the settlement filed in federal court.
It will be presented today to U.S. District Judge David Lawson for likely approval.
Associated Press