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Ford plans to add 6,200 jobs in Ohio, Michigan and Missouri
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DETROIT (AP) — Ford will add 6,200 manufacturing facility jobs in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio because it prepares to construct extra electrical automobiles and roll out two redesigned combustion-engine fashions.
The corporate says it’ll make investments $3.7 billion within the three states between now and 2026. It additionally will convert about 3,000 momentary staff to full-time standing with pay raises and advantages.
A manufacturing facility in Avon Lake, Ohio, close to Cleveland, might be expanded so it could construct an unidentified new electrical industrial car, with 1,800 new jobs. Ninety extra jobs might be added in Lima and Sharonville, Ohio.
A plant in Claycomo, Missouri, close to Kansas Metropolis, that makes huge electrical and combustion-engine Transit vans will get a 3rd shift of 1,100 staff to deal with elevated demand.
In Michigan, Ford Motor Co. plans so as to add 2,000 jobs at three meeting crops, and one other 1,200 at different amenities.
A manufacturing facility within the Detroit suburb of Wayne that now builds the Ranger small pickup will see funding and jobs to make a brand new Ranger. A plant in Flat Rock south of Detroit will construct a brand new model of the Mustang muscle automobile that it now builds. And Ford’s Rouge Electrical Car Middle in Dearborn additionally will see funding and jobs so it could construct extra F-150 Lightning electrical pickups to satisfy unexpectedly excessive demand. The corporate additionally will add 600 jobs at a brand new elements packaging facility to be inbuilt Monroe, Michigan, and one other 600 at a number of part crops within the state.
It’s a part of Ford’s plan to have the ability to make 2 million electrical automobiles per yr globally by 2026.
Kumar Galhotra, president of Ford Blue, the corporate’s division that makes inner combustion automobiles, mentioned the EV investments are wanted partly as a result of Ford underestimated demand for EVs.
As quickly as Ford opened reservations for the electrical F-150, it started planning to broaden the Dearborn plant that makes them, he mentioned. “The reservations have been a lot increased than the (manufacturing) capability that we had put in,” Galhotra mentioned. “That is the primary time in my profession that we have been increasing the plant earlier than the plant was constructed.”
Ford stopped taking reservations for the F-150 Lightning at 200,000, and it’s now changing reservations to orders. About two-thirds of these contacted up to now are changing, however the firm mentioned it didn’t have a precise quantity. As well as, the Mach-E and E-Transit vans are bought out for the yr, Galhotra mentioned.
Ford wouldn’t give particulars of the industrial EV to be constructed on the Ohio Meeting Plant by mid-decade. The manufacturing facility has been on the sting of closure for a lot of its life however has managed to outlive even when constructing older automobiles.
“I feel this super funding, each in greenback phrases and jobs, and the kind of product we’re placing there, reveals that the Ohio Meeting plant and that group have a really shiny future,” Galhotra mentioned.
Ohio is providing about $200 million in incentives for the Ford funding, whereas Michigan is contributing about $150 million. Though there might be a small capital funding so as to add the third shift in Missouri, there aren’t any incentives for this mission.
Ford mentioned it already has begun switching the momentary staff to full-time, and it’s beginning to rent the brand new staff for the crops.
The announcement got here a yr forward of when contract talks begin with the United Auto Employees union. New product and job bulletins usually are a part of the negotiations.
Ford additionally pledged to spend $1 billion over the subsequent 5 years to enhance the work expertise at its factories. The corporate is working with the UAW to find out the wants, which might embrace higher lighting in parking heaps for security and more healthy meals within the factories.
Ford’s determination to construct three battery crops and one new meeting plant in Kentucky and Tennessee final yr raised questions concerning the firm’s manufacturing dedication to its dwelling state and area.
Michigan politicians labored laborious to lure Common Motors EV meeting and battery crops in January after dropping the Ford crops to the southern states.
UAW officers praised Thursday’s Ford bulletins in an organization assertion. “Ford stepped as much as the plate by including these jobs,” President Ray Curry mentioned.
It’s seemingly that Ford will construct a fourth North American battery manufacturing facility within the Nice Lakes area in a three way partnership with SK Innovation of Korea, however Galhotra mentioned he’s not able to make an announcement but.
On the tempo Ford is transferring with EV manufacturing, extra manufacturing might be wanted, Galhotra mentioned, pointing to the Michigan website the place the electrical F-150 is being constructed and the industrial EV to be inbuilt Ohio. “We’ll have extra bulletins to return,” he mentioned.
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Missouri State football vs. Montana today: Live updates, highlights from Week 1 game
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Missouri State football: Ryan Beard previews Montana
Missouri State head football coach Ryan Beard held his weekly press conference ahead of Saturday’s opener at Montana.
Missouri State football season has arrived and an offseason of looking to the 2025 season and its impending move to Conference USA will be set aside for the Bears’ final season in the Missouri Valley Football Conference and FCS.
Opening day will present quite a challenge.
Missouri State will open its 2024 season at FCS national runner-up Montana on Saturday in Missoula, Montana, at 8 p.m. This is the first time the two teams have met on the gridiron.
Ryan Beard is entering his second season as Missouri State’s head coach. His team will look to build off a 4-7 season while staying focused on this season despite being ineligible for the FCS Playoffs.
Montana finished last season as the FCS national runner-up. The Grizzlies hope to finish the job this season as they enter the season as the No. 3-ranked team in the country.
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Missouri father uses a funeral to wean daughter off pacifier
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The Bishop family of Festus, Missouri, can smile now, but a few months ago the mood was much more somber as Courtney, Jake and their 3-year-old daughter Hazel said goodbye to a very important member of the family: Hazel’s beloved pacifier.
“It’s not good for her teeth and her jaws and all of that, so we had been trying to wean her off of it for some time,” Jake, 35, said.
Hazel’s beloved pacifier, affectionately known as “Paci,” had been with her for years. Jake knew saying goodbye could come with tears and tantrums, so he searched for creative approaches to ease the transition. He considered options such as cutting off the end of the pacifier, soaking it in vinegar or planting it in a pot.
Instead, Jake chose to give Paci a funeral.
Of course, before the internet, parents used to just take the thing away and deal with the tantrum. But today, for better or worse, young parents like Jake would rather not go to war over a binky. They’re “pacy-fists,” if you will.
“You need them to go through some tough times to really grow as a person but you don’t need to make extra tough times for them,” Jake said. “They’ll have plenty of those coming up.”
Parents delight in making milestones, but those milestones are often bittersweet because each turning point is a point of no return.
“She’s transitioning to the next stage of her life,” Jake said of Hazel, their first child. “We just got to hold onto those moments and those memories, because it goes fast.”
Hazel hasn’t asked for Paci again since. Although, shortly after the ceremony, Jake dug it up and buried it again in a keepsake box, making dad the one who just can’t let go.
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Kansas man charged after child porn allegedly sent while in Missouri
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – A Kansas man has been charged after he allegedly sent child pornography while in a Missouri county.
Court documents filed in the Platte County, Missouri, Circuit Court have revealed that on Wednesday, Aug. 28, Courtnie R. Purvis, 45, of Overland Park, Kansas, has been charged with a single count of promoting child pornography in the first degree.
A complaint filed by the prosecuting attorney reported that in June 2023, Purvis knowingly sent out child pornography while in Platte County. The content allegedly depicted two victims, with whom Purvis has been barred from any contact.
As a part of his $25,000 cash-only bond agreement, if bailed out, Purvis is not allowed contact with any minor whatsoever. As of Friday, he is not behind Platte County bars.
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