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SPRINGFIELD, Mo.-- MoDOT confirms that the bridge demolition at Battlefield Rd. and Route 65 will be postponed due to hazardous road conditions. The demolition is now scheduled for the weekend of March 8th & 9th. PREVIOUS COVERAGE:

Battlefield Rd. at Route 65 will be closed and Route 65 at Battlefield Rd. will see major traffic impacts starting at 12:01 a.m. Sunday, March 1, and lasting until as late as 6 a.m. Monday, March 2, the Missouri Department of Transportation said.

Despite the forecast for winter weather, contractor crews plan to go ahead with the demolition of the south half of the Battlefield Rd. bridge over Route 65.

MoDOT stated that they will have crews in the area plowing and clearing the roadways.

Traffic Impacts During Bridge Demolition:

During the March 1-2 closing, Battlefield Road over Route 65 will be CLOSED. Drivers may use Battlefield Road on either side of Route 65 to reach businesses, but they will not be able to cross the bridge during the demolition. Route 65 will be reduced to one lane in each direction and traffic will be routed over the ramps at the Battlefield Road interchange. No right turns will be allowed onto or off of the ramps at the Battlefield Road/Route 65 interchange. The ramps will only be open to Route 65 through-traffic. A signed detour is posted directing drivers to use Battlefield Road to Ingram Mill Road to Sunshine Street to Route 65 on the west side of Route 65. Another detour will direct drivers from Battlefield Road to Blackman Road to Sunshine Street to Route 65 on the east side of Route 65.

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A cormorant roosts below the old Bay Bridge span where demolition work continues in Oakland, Calif. on Thursday, March 5, 2015. Caltrans says it has come up with a plan how to deal with the protected cormorants that have become so fond of the old eastern span that they have refused to leave.

A cormorant roosts below the old Bay Bridge span where demolition...

A crew uses a blow torch to remove a section of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge, which has been beset by cost overruns.

A crew uses a blow torch to remove a section of the old eastern...

Access is restricted to the area where demolition of the old Bay Bridge span continues.

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Dennis Whedbees crew was rushing to prepare an oil well for pumping on the Sweet Grass Woman lease site, a speck of dusty plains rich with crude in Mandaree, North Dakota.

It was getting late that September afternoon in 2012. Whedbee, a 50-year-old derrickhand, was helping another worker remove a pipe fitting on top of the well when it suddenly blew.

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Oil and sludge pressurized at more than 700 pounds per square inch tore into Whedbees body, ripping his left arm off just below the elbow. Coworkers jerry-rigged a tourniquet from a sweatshirt and a ratchet strap to stanch his bleeding and got his wife on the phone.

Babe, he said, tell everyone I love them.

It was exactly the sort of accident that workers compensation was designed for. Until recently, Americas workers could rely on a compact struck at the dawn of the Industrial Age: They would give up their right to sue. In exchange, if they were injured on the job, their employers would pay their medical bills and enough of their wages to help them get by while they recovered.

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SCHENECTADY- It's like putting together a puzzle but in reverse, demolition crews and investigators are taking down 100 and 104 Jay St. in Schenectady one chunk at a time.

"Very methodical it's going to be a delayed and long process," says Lt. Mark McCracken, of Schenectady Police Department.

ATF's National Response Team is helping with that process, they along with fire investigators were seen doing a cite survey, looking for what needed to be secured structurally before the big rigs went to work.

The two buildings went up in flames around 2 a.m. Friday morning. It took firefighters until daylight to bring it under control. Ten people were injured, three of them firefighters. Police say several people are missing, they didn't have an exact number.

They put out a plea for anyone who either lived there or may have been inside and have not been formally interviewed by investigators to contact police. The people missing may have been trapped.

"Again it's just to determine who was definitely inside and who we can cross off the list and make sure they're safe and sound, says McCracken.

Police say some of those still missing may be casualties of the massive blaze. That's partly why they're being very careful with the demolition.

They're going to do a controlled demolition, examining the building in an attempt to gain some sort of evidence, determining how the fire how the fire started. And determining also if anyone was trapped inside, says McCracken.

But also they say to make sure the buildings on either side of the fire scene suffer minimal to no damage in the process.

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Home sales of $1 million and higher account for only a small share of the overall market. Sales of new homes over $750,000 made up just 3.7 percent of all new-home sales in 2013, according to census data. But for Toll Brothers and several other builders, the million-dollar price point has become a new sweet spot for attracting buyers.

Last year, Toll Brothers sold 585 homes across the nation priced at $1 million or more, according to Metrostudy, a research company that focuses on residential real estate development and new-home construction. That was nearly three times the number it sold just two years previously, the company reported.

Toll Brothers has long included the high end in its spectrum of new homes, but even builders known primarily for affordable offerings, like D.R. Horton, are selling a lot more million-dollar homes. According to Metrostudy, D.R. Horton in 2012 sold just five homes for $1 million or more; last year it sold 145. PulteGroup/Del Webb/Centex, Taylor Morrison and Lennar followed similar patterns in recent years.

For wealthy buyers, the recession is long gone, said Mike Castleman Jr., senior vice president of Metrostudy. "If the builders want to stay in business and keep the flywheel running, they go after that market."

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Even apart from the million-dollar level, many builders are moving upscale as fast as they can. The price of newly constructed homes has risen significantly faster than the price of existing homes, according to an analysis from Zillow, the online real estate firm. In September 2005, the average price gap between existing and new homes was about $32,000; by December 2014 it had widened to $122,000.

At the Newtown Square development, called Liseter, even the harsh winter weather was doing little to slow the bulldozers breaking through the frosty ground this month for homes that will feature cathedral ceilings, hand-scraped hardwood floors, winding staircases, his-and-her walk-in closets and garages with what look like antique barn doors. The development sits on a former Monticello-inspired estate where Jean Liseter Austin du Pont once bred Welsh ponies and hunting beagles.

Buyers can tweak the floor plan, pick from a variety of shower designs and fireplace tiles, and adjust the number of data ports in the walls. Since construction began in January 2013, Toll Brothers has sold 136 homes at Liseter and hopes to sell about 300 more.

Not all the Liseter homes begin at $1 million, but buyers want extras sunrooms, built-in wine storage, even the ultimate man cave with a glass-encased room for brewing beer that push the price as much as $300,000 higher.

"We're trying to cater to the higher end just because that's what the market is demanding," Brian Thierrin, a Toll Brothers senior vice president who is overseeing the Liseter project, explained as he meandered through model homes after showing off a club house that looked like a fancy restaurant and spacious gym in a separate building. Final work on an infinity pool awaited warmer temperatures.

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A two-story addition completed in four months tops is what was promised to Jeffrey Goldstein in 2009. Before long, though, he suspected that promise would be broken.

A couple of months into construction, subcontractors claimed they werent paid. And the contractor, John Succi, routinely arrived at the Richboro home without building materials and supplies, then asked Goldsteins wife to buy them. Succi also kept asking for more than the $80,000 price in the contract they Goldsteins signed.

Still, Goldstein said he wasnt worried at the time. He knew that months earlier, the Legislature had adopted the Pennsylvania Home Improvement Consumer Protection Act, which was designed to regulate the home improvement and repair industry. After he found strong evidence that Succi had violated virtually every aspect of the new law, Goldstein figured prosecuting him would be easy.

I felt completely protected, he said. I felt like it would be righted if I went to the authorities and told them what was going on.

He was wrong.

As it turns out, enforcement of the 6-year-old law is lackluster and relies on contractors to provide accurate information, according to consumer advocates and others.

Even the trade group for the states home improvement industry calls the laws enforcement lax, despite changes the Pennsylvania Attorney Generals Office, which administers the law, implemented last year to address complaints. Those changes include a new regulatory compliance unit, random checks of applications and devoting more resources to investigating complaints.

There are really no teeth (in the law)," said Peter Gallagher, president of the Pennsylvania Builders Association, which represents 5,400 companies. There is a number at the Attorney Generals Office that you can call and complain, and if you complain, theyll put it on their list, but that doesnt mean it (investigation) will get done in a timely fashion.

In 2010, when Goldstein said he first complained to the Attorney Generals Office and the Bucks County Office of Consumer Protection, he was told other complaints would be necessary before theyd investigate Succis business.

Last year four years after Goldstein first brought his fraud suspicions to authorities Succi went on trial for home improvement fraud. A jury found the Lower Makefield resident guilty of bilking 14 customers out of $2.5 million over at least eight years, in the largest home improvement contractor fraud case in recent memory.

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