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Earthstone Energy Inc. agreed to buy closely held oil and gas producer Bighorn Permian Resources for $860 million.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio offered Intel Corp. incentives worth roughly $2 billion to secure a new $20 billion chipmaking factory that the company says will help alleviate a global shortage and create a new technology hub in the Midwest.

PITTSBURGH — Arriving just hours after a serious bridge collapse, President Joe Biden stared into the cratered muddy earth where the aging span fell early Jan. 28, striking evidence supporting the $1 trillion infrastructure law he already had planned to tout on his trip here.

About 60 million households in the U.S. have ordered at-home COVID-19 tests from the federal government and “tens of millions” of tests have been shipped out by the U.S. Postal Service, according to White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre.

PITTSBURGH — A 50-year-old bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh early Jan. 28, requiring rescuers to rappel nearly 150 feet and form a human chain to reach occupants of a bus that had plummeted with the span into a park ravine.

Mack Trucks Inc. is manufacturing a four-axle, heavy-duty dump truck for the U.S. Army that is offered with either a standard cab with a special, poison gas-resistant coating or a heavily armored cab.

The U.S. Department of Transportation on Jan. 27 released a multibillion-dollar plan that calls for actions to address what it called “a national crisis in roadway fatalities and serious injuries.”

Legal experts are warning that trucking companies and their technology providers could be unintentionally dragged into state and federal class-action civil lawsuits over compliance with the notification requirements of an Illinois biometric privacy law.

The top Republican on the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee called on the White House to brief his colleagues on the Biden administration’s strategy for implementing a $1 trillion infrastructure law.

A slump in global diesel stockpiles has left the market vulnerable to price spikes.