Under Armour (a leading athletic clothing brand) is officially moving forward with a new $100 million distribution center in Nashville that will create at least 1,500 new jobs within the next five years. Under Armour was considering three possible sites for their new south east footprint, Nashville, Atlanta, or an undisclosed South Carolina location. They finalized their decision for Nashville after...
South African chemical company Sasol Ltd.just received its final approval for an $8.1 billion ethane cracker and derivatives facility by Louisiana's Lake Charles. The state agreed to give Sasol $257 million in incentives including payroll rebates, workforce training and grants. They're also trying to get into the state's industrial tax exemption program, which grants projects 10 years of no property taxes. It is being called one...
A high security special isolation unit is currently being set up Ebola patients in the Virginia Beach area. Sentara Princess Anne hospital in Virginia Beach will be receiving patients with Ebola from facilities throughout Virginia and North Carolina. A special ambulance is also being equipped to provide transportation for Ebola patients and up to 20 employees are being trained and equipped. Health officials throughout Virginia and North...
A video of a fight at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport shows a man taunting another man in one of the airport's terminals, apparently over his pink shirt. Another passenger asks the instigator what he's upset about, to which he responds, "Queers is what I'm upset about," just before attacking the man in the pink shirt. At that point, he's immediately subdued...
Just when most people though the Californian gold rush was over, one of the largest gold nuggets in modern times was just discovered in Northern California's Gold Country. The solid gold nugget weighed in at 6.07 lbs and just sold over the weekend for about $400,000 (the exact amount and buyers name were kept confidential). Less then 24 hours after it was...
Long Beach's Annual Free Haunted Maze: Venture through the over 2,500-square-foot haunted maze made of recycled materials. starting at 7 p.m. Oct. 30-31. Located at the intersection of Stearns and Palo Verde in Long Beach. www.vimeo.com/107958056 Seventh Annual Long Beach Zombie Walk: The three-night event features walk through Shoreline Village, classic zombie movies, contests, music, food, and more. 5-11 p.m....
It has been about a year since the National Medal of Honor Museum Foundation signed a lease for Patriots Point with plan to build a new $100 million military museum. To many people's surprise, the foundation is now well ahead of its goal of $5 million 2014, and now has plans to break ground on the Charleston museum as soon as next...
The now nationally recognized city of Concord is officially the seventh fastest-growing city in the country, according to Wallethub.com. They examined the cities that have expanded most rapidly between 2008 and 2013, analyzing a total of 516 U.S. cities of varying sizes across 10 key metrics, ranging from population growth rate to unemployment rate decrease. The city of Concord grew from an overall population of...
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The celebrity gosip organization TMZ has just claimed that TLC has canceled the "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" series due to the fact that June "Mama June" Shannon has just started dating a registered sex offender. Shannon claims that she is not dating Mark Anthony McDaniel, a man who served 10 years in prison after being convicted of aggravated child molestation, but she did confirm that...