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Illinois Sen. Barack Obama formally accepted the Democratic nomination for president Wednesday night in Denver, pledging tax cuts for the middle class and an end, within 10 years, to America’s dependence on oil from the Middle East.

Ford Motor Co. plans to start offering a new type of fuel-efficient engine in its F-150 trucks sometime in 2010, an official in the company’s engine design area said Thursday. (F)

Teamsters Local 200 has refused to resume bargaining negotiations with Waste management Inc. as a strike of garbage collection workers enters its fourth day, according to a statement from Waste management.

This week’s flooding in the Charlotte area has left all 96 ground-floor units of the Cavalier Apartments unsafe, county officials say, and residents of units will not be allowed to move back into them.

The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation promoted Tom Steinbach, an officer in its environment program, to director.

Nashville-based Smith Seckman Reid is offering its expertise to Vanderbilt University students in an environmental engineering and design course.

More than $2.4 million of Missouri taxpayers’ money was spent “for questionable purposes” over the past eight years, including purchases made at bakeries, beauty salons, bra stores, coffee shops and picture-framing galleries, according to a review by the National Taxpayers Union.