His new book, like his previous ones, is a big dig.
Two former managers of a Big Dig contractor pleaded guilty to being part of a conspiracy to deliver substandard concrete to the highway project.
Safety repairs in part of a Big Dig tunnel where a woman was killed last month are complete, and the tunnel will open pending federal approval, Gov. Mitt Romney said.
A grand jury has been convened to investigate whether a Big Dig tunnel where a woman was killed in July was improperly designed or constructed, a spokesman for Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly said.
BOSTON, Aug. 8 — The supplier of the epoxy that federal officials have blamed for the collapse of a Big Dig tunnel was indicted Wednesday in the death of a woman crushed by falling ceiling panels.
Mr. Cogliano, who was the state secretary of transportation, replaces Matthew J. Amorello, who resigned under pressure from Mr. Romney after a woman was killed by collapsing tiles while going through a Big Dig tunnel.
BOSTON (AP) — The family of a woman killed when a Big Dig highway tunnel collapsed on her car in 2006 has reached a $6 million settlement with the epoxy supplier blamed for the accident, family representatives and company officials said this week.
BOSTON, July 13 — Massachusetts officials said Thursday that more potential problems had been found in a Big Dig tunnel: 242 areas where loose bolts have created gaps between the tunnel roof and a metal frame that supports concrete ceiling panels.
Congress, the financier of countless public works projects elsewhere, is getting a big dig to call its own: construction is about to begin on a vast underground visitor complex, and preparations are already transforming the Capitol grounds.
A1 Indictment in Big Dig Death The supplier of the epoxy that federal officials have blamed for the collapse of a Big Dig tunnel, was indicted in the death of a motorist crushed by falling ceiling panels in the collapse last July.
