Indonesian authorities will drop hundreds of giant concrete balls into a fissure Friday to try to stem a gushing mud eruption that has inundated villages and factories, an official said. The hot, ...

Masonry students at the Center for Applied Technology North in Severn already have brick laying, concrete mixing and wall building on their resumes. This week, they added reef ball construction.

Indonesia has adopted a potentially deadly new tactic in an attempt to stop people illegally riding the roofs of trains. Grapefruit-sized concrete balls have been suspended across the tracks, ...

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PORONG, Indonesia -- For nine months, a gaping hole in the ground has spit out a biblical torrent of hot, black mud, swallowing thousands of homes outside Indonesia's second-largest city and ...

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - About 600 concrete balls will be placed into the Lafayette River this summer to help restore the oyster population. The Chesapeake Bay Foundation said in statement that it used a ...

OYSTER The continuing effort to restore the Chesapeake Bay's native oyster brought students bearing 200 concrete balls to this Eastern Shore seaside village. They came from Charlottesville last week ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — There’s a battle waging on the Lynnhaven River involving 28,000 concrete reef balls. Many of the vocal neighbors along the Eastern Branch of the river don’t want them, but ...

Indonesia has gone to imaginative extremes to try to stop commuters from illegally riding the roofs of trains — hosing down the scofflaws with red paint, threatening them with dogs and appealing for ...

WILDWOOD — Brightly colored, extremely Instagrammable and not quite indestructible, concrete beach balls have proliferated in Wildwood and beyond since their installation at a plaza in front of the ...

ST. LOUIS – You see them all the time at stores and on the corner of intersections. They’re called traffic safety balls, and they can be a decorative way to control the flow of traffic. The Gate ...