NEW-HOME SALES IN DEC. SLIPPED

» U.S. sales WASHINGTO N of newly built homes fell 0.4% in December, cooling slightly after low mortgage rates fueled gains for much of 2019.

The Commerce Department said Monday that new single-family houses sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 694,000 last month. But for all of 2019, sales climbed 10.3% to 681,000, the highest total since 2007 when 776,000 new homes were sold as the housing bubble was beginning to deflate ahead of the Great Recession.

Frontier Airlines to resume service in Delaware. .»

D OV E R, DEL Frontier Airlines is returning service to Delaware, almost five years after it ended its operation in the state, according to state officials.

Gov. John Carney’s schedule for this week shows that he will attend an event Tuesday at the Wilmington New Castle Airport to announce restoration of commercial airline service by Frontier beginning this spring.

Delaware has been the only state without commercial airline service since Frontier left in June 2015.

Atlantic Richfield scraps second Berkeley Pit water plant.

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Richfield has scrapped a proposal to build a second water treatment plant to lower the level of acidic, metalladen water that has collected in a former copper mining pit in Butte. Atlantic Richfield, which is owned by BP, suggested the additional water treatment last summer after a tailings dam failed in Brazil in January 2019, killing 270 people.

California tests find illegal vapes tainted with additives.

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A NGELE S officials announced Monday that marijuana vape cartridges seized in illegal shops in Los Angeles contained potentially dangerous additives, including a thickening agent blamed for a national outbreak of deadly lung illnesses tied to vaping.

The findings highlight the risk for consumers at underground shops and delivery services that are common in Los Angeles and elsewhere around California, officials said.

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