The Austin and San Antonio area Associated Supply Company (ASCO) presented The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central & South Texas with a check for $15,000. ASCO collected donations from customers and employees at the Austin, San Antonio and Belton ASCO locations over past several months.

Walker Miller Equipment Company Inc., Orlando, Fla., recently celebrated 50 years in the industry. Started in 1961 with a partnership between Walker Miller and Ken Herold, Miller eventually bought Herold out and the company has continued within the family.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The big dig for San Francisco’s multibillion dollar transportation terminal has unearthed some artifacts from during and after the city’s heady Gold Rush days, including opium pipes from a Chinese laundry and a chipped chamber pot found in a backyard outhouse.

When you have 150 days to build a new truck stop operation there is very little time for mistakes or second guessing. Pilot-Flying J faces that challenge as they race to construct a large, brand-new truck stop at Exit 77 off I-95 in South Carolina.

Continuing to expand its footprint in various markets across the country, Volvo Rents has acquired Blue Eagle Equipment, a three-store equipment rental company based in South Carolina, with stores in Columbia, Greenville and Spartanburg.

Finning International Inc. and Caterpillar Inc. announced the companies have reached an agreement for Finning to acquire from Caterpillar the distribution and support business formerly operated by Bucyrus in portions of South America and western Canada and in the United Kingdom After closing, Finning expects to begin providing sales, service and support for former Bucyrus mining products in all of Finning’’s dealership territories.

TORONTO (AP) Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper said Jan. 18 he told Barack Obama he was profoundly disappointed after the U.S. president called to tell him the administration rejected a plan to build an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) State officials are facing opposition to plans to widen Interstate 10 through Baton Rouge from businesses and residents near Perkins Road, an area prized for its locally owned restaurants, bars and shops.

GREENSBORO, NC — Tom Coble, founder and president of Greensboro, NC-based Coble Trench Safety (CTS), died in a plane crash January 20, 2012, shortly after takeoff from a regional airport in Rainbow City, AL.

The Lane Construction Corporation is more than half-way through its portion of work on the Orlando-Orange County Expressway Authority’s (OOCEA) SR 408 widening and improvements program. OOCEA’s $675 million initiative is designed to significantly reduce traffic congestion and improve mobility in the area.