California
An epidemic of construction equipment-related crime is sweeping the county, causing construction delays, increased insurance costs and higher-priced homes and buildings.
June 7, 1990
Sion Campbell Hawthorne, killed in a gun battle with police and the prime suspect in a $100,000 theft of heavy construction equipment, had been driving a stolen motor home and was wanted for an unrelated theft in Texas, law enforcement officers in Texas and California said Thursday.
Nov. 18, 1988
You might think that some things are just too big to steal.
Sept. 1, 1998
World & Nation
TERESA LEE HADN’T been working very long on her first construction job--building a steel missile tower at Vandenberg Air Force Base--when “Red,” her supervisor, asked her to do a special job for him.
Dec. 4, 1988
City officials here say that with five projects totaling $47.3 million due to begin construction in the next three months, this is the year that major plans for redevelopment finally get off the drawing boards.
Jan. 12, 1986
Having failed to kill the Los Angeles-to-Pasadena Blue Line project during budget deliberations of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, opponents of the project have gone to federal court to paralyze the ongoing construction of a system that twice was approved by the voters.
Oct. 14, 1994
Construction delays led to heavy congestion at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday.
March 17, 2024
After more than three years of seemingly endless debate over where and what kind of mass transit line to build in the San Fernando Valley, the time for decision is almost at hand.
Dec. 26, 1989
A heavy construction vehicle punctured a high-pressure natural gas main in Palmdale on Wednesday morning, releasing a roaring flow of gas that forced the evacuation of more than 40 houses and slightly injured a worker.
Aug. 30, 1990
Business
Clark Equipment Co., a diversified, Michigan-based heavy equipment maker, and AB Volvo, the big Swedish conglomerate, have agreed to merge their construction-equipment subsidiaries into a new joint-venture company, the two firms said Wednesday.
Jan. 24, 1985