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The Church Road Bridge carrying traffic over Interstate 88 in Aurora is scheduled to close the week of Aug. 18 for reconstruction.

Electronic message signs and construction signs will be put in place to alert drivers in advance of the closure and detour.

The Illinois Tollway is removing the existing Church Road Bridge and replacing it with a new bridge featuring a reinforced concrete deck on precast concrete beams. The new bridge will be widened and the height increased to meet current design standards. Bridge reconstruction is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Beginning the week of Aug. 18, Church Road will be closed to through traffic between Corporate Boulevard and Molitor Road and the bridge will be closed to all traffic. A signed detour will be put in place directing traffic to use Indian Trail Road, Farnsworth Avenue and Butterfield Road.

On I-88, shoulder closures will be in place for bridge reconstruction and intermittent traffic stops during off-peak hours will be scheduled for the removal and placement of bridge beams.

Work also includes improving portions of Church Road on either side of the bridge. Up to 7,300 vehicles use this stretch of roadway daily.

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MANILA - A Catholic church leader said the church cant reveal yet the details of Pope Francis visit in Yolanda-devastated areas.

Palo Archbishop John Du said they cant reveal yet his itinerary and the places he will visit due to security reasons.

Ang instruction sa amin, huwag muna i-public ang mga lugar kasi for security reasons din, he said.

Radio Veritas reported province of Leyte is now undergoing massive reconstruction, specifically in areas where the pope will visit and stay.

Du said they are also focusing on the construction of the Pope Francis Center, which will house children and old people in need of shelter.

He said the leader of the Roman Catholic church is expected to bless the center.

100 percent preparation na kami talaga. They are all preparing. Ang target, matapos by December, Du told Radio Veritas.

He noted workers from the Department of Public Works and Highways are also involved in efforts to finish construction of the project.

The church leaders earlier announced Pope Francis will visit the Philippines on January 15 to 19 next year.

Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle said his holiness Pope Francis will make his apostolic visit to Sri Lanka on January 12 to 15 and to the Philippines on January 15 to 19, 2015.

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The massive fire that destroyed a Far East Side apartment building under construction and sent up a cloud of smoke that could be seen across Madison on Friday caused between $3.5 million and $5 million in damages, authorities said Monday.

City, state and federal investigators are now trying to find out how the blaze started, and on Monday asked the public to send in photos of the fire in its early stages, hoping they could provide some clues.

About two dozen agents and specialists from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives National Response Team have been brought in to investigate the fire.

The four-story building, under construction on the 500 block of Apollo Way, was the site of a planned 105-unit apartment building in the Grandview Commons subdivision. No one was hurt in the blaze.

An official with FMI Development, the company building the apartments, said in a statement that the company would work with authorities in the investigation.

We look forward to rebuilding in the near future, said Dan Schmidt, a managing member of the company.

The blaze began around 7:30 p.m. Friday, radiating intense heat throughout the neighborhood as firefighters quickly took a defensive approach to containing it.

Smoke was visible Friday evening from Downtown across Lake Monona, and ash and debris scattered over several miles.

On Monday, rippled vinyl siding on houses that faced the former construction site were a testament to the heat the fire generated. Much of the building had been leveled, leaving little but an elevator shaft and a partially charred section standing.

Madison fire and police officials, along with the State Fire Marshalls Office, requested the ATFs help with the investigation, authorities said.

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NEWPORT NEWS Three historic buildings on lower Jefferson Avenue are getting a second life as apartment buildings, as the city continues its effort to revitalize the area.

The former Mesic Hardware store on Jefferson Avenue, a school built in 1899 and the 100-year-old Roam building, along with two new buildings, will soon be home to 64 new downtown apartments.

The Roam building, at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and 28th Street, now called the Lofts on Jefferson, opened about two months ago with 14 one-bedroom units. All but two are now occupied one that is wheelchair-accessible. Workers from MGT Construction, of Richmond, gutted and reconstructed all three floors of the building and repalced the roof, while preserving the brick exterior.

Down the street, the Mesic Hardware building is being transformed into five apartments that connect to a newly constructed building. Another detached apartment building was also built on the same side of Jefferson, across from 26th street. The 42 units should be available for occupancy in October, said Karen Wilds, executive director of the Newport News Redevelopment and Housing Authority.

About two blocks away at 815 28th Street, the finishing touches are being put on the old George Washington School. The two-story brick school, built in 1899, once housed students in grades 4-6. Now, the building's classrooms are converted into eight one-bedroom apartments, which should be ready for occupancy by the end of the month, Wilds said.

The school sits on a quiet residential street near about a dozen new homes the RHA has built as part of its program for first-time home buyers.

The school, along with Mesic Hardware and the two new buildings, will be part of a development called Jefferson Brookville Apartments; residents can access the shared amenities in the Mesic building's first-floor community room, including an indoor playground.

Both Mesic Hardware and school buildings retain their unique characters through the original ceilings, stairways and front doors, said Amanda Adams, an associate with North Carolina-based CJMW Architecture and the site's project manager.

The firm's goal with Jefferson Brookville was to restore the Jefferson corridor as a living model of an active, truly urban neighborhood as it once was, Adams said a mission the city has been trying to accomplish for years.

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(Lennie Mahler | The Salt Lake Tribune) Firefighters battle a four-alarm fire near downtown Salt Lake City, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014.

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The alleged confession of the man accused of starting a fire that caused $6 million in damage to a Salt Lake City apartment building that was under construction should be tossed out of court, his attorney argued Monday.

The attorney for Dustin Jay Bowman told a U.S. District Court judge on Monday that during an interview with investigators, Bowman was not adequately informed of his rights and was coerced into confessing that he started the Feb. 9 fire that burned the 64,000-square-foot project at 550 E. 500 South in Salt Lake City.

Jaime Zenger, the court-appointed attorney for Bowman, said the admitted drug addict was intimidated by the investigators during two interviews and felt he was not being allowed to leave the Salt Lake City Public Safety Building. An agent also lied to Bowman about having a number of informants who named him as the suspect, she said.

"This entire interview was coerced," Zenger said in a hearing before Judge Ted Stewart.

Bowman confessed to local and federal investigators that he had smoked spice and then started the four-alarm fire that sent flames and smoke billowing into the night sky, according to court filings. He was arrested and charged with arson after the alleged confession.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Vincent admitted that Bowman was not adequately informed of his rights, known as a Miranda warning, by a local fire investigator who was questioning the electrician. But Vincent told Stewart there were other factors to consider, including that Bowman had contacted investigators himself and offered to talk to them.

"Over and over he said, Im here for you guys and I want to help, " said Vincent, who said Bowman was provided a written Miranda warning.

Stewart said he would take the arguments under advisement and issue a decision soon.

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As the PC market continues to decline, Arm is proving that non x86 chips are cool and have a long and prosperous future.

Intel has said it is watching closely its "biggest competitor", the semi-conductor firm Arm, which holds almost 95% of the burgeoning smartphone segment.

Dylan Larson, director for Intels Xeon product marketing, made the comments during a workshop in Intel's Hillsboro campus in Oregon.

There have been speculations that Apple could replace Intel chips with those made around Arm architecture in its Mac devices from 2016 onwards.

The company already uses Arm architecture in its processors for iPhones and iPads. Intel has been used in Apples Mac devices since 2006.

The rumours were sparked by a blog from former Apple executive Jean-Louis Gassee in which he said: When Apple announced its 64-bit A7 processor, I dismissed the speculation that this could lead to a switch away from Intel chips for the Macintosh line for a homegrown 'desktop-class' chip. I might have been wrong."

It is estimated that Arm-based chips are found in every six of ten mobile devices in the world.

Arm technology is often cheaper and more power efficient. While Arm dominates the smartphone and mobile device market share, it holds only 5% of the server, personal computing and high-performance computing market that Intel dominates.

Intel could face tougher challenges from Arm as the PC market continues to diminish, analysts said.

Intel became complacent when AMD stopped innovating and acting as competition, said Nebojsa Novakovic, a Singapore-based consultant at Computational Resource Centre.

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