FREMONT, California (AP) -- In a busy factory, machinists move sheets of aluminum roll in the back door to be molded, stamped, twisted and notched into high-tech electric cars that sell for more than $60,000 each.

Down the road in another plant, crews slice solar cells, place them under glass sheets and create panels that ship by the boxful to Europe. Elsewhere in this town, industrial workshops and laboratories buzz with workers building everything from robots to microprocessors.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Sunbathers headed to the beach this summer will find new sunscreen labels on store shelves that are designed to make the products more effective and easier to use. But despite those long-awaited changes, many sunscreens continue to carry SPF ratings that some experts consider misleading and potentially dangerous, according to a consumer watchdog group.

BEIJING (AP) -- A massive blast ripped through an explosives factory Monday in eastern China, killing at least 12 people and leaving others buried in the debris, state media reported.

Rescuers were take care to avoid setting off additional explosions as they went through the site of the mid-morning explosion in Shandong province's Caofan township, the China News Service said. The company website said the factory, run by the Baoli group, manufactures 10,000 tons of industrial explosives annually.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- The wait for answers is far from over for parents who for years have lived with the worry of not knowing what's behind the mysterious cancers that have sickened dozens of children in a rural area of northern Ohio.

Despite a federal civil lawsuit that points toward a possible cause, the issue is far from settled.

Not much is known about the chemical compound detected by environmental testing in the attics of homes that sit inside the cancer cluster where nearly 40 young people have been diagnosed with various types of cancer since the mid-1990s.

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- Auto workers in Toledo celebrated a milestone this past week.

The 1 millionth Jeep Wrangler rolled off the assembly line at Chrysler's assembly plant that opened in 2006.

Chrysler marked the occasion Friday with a ceremony at the production line.

Plant Manager Zach Leroux tells the Blade newspaper in Toledo that sales of the Wrangler continue to be strong.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- 3-D technology isn't just for movie theatres and comic books anymore. In fact, it may very well reshape the landscape for American manufacturing.

It's all thanks to advances in 3-D printing, also called additive manufacturing, which has seen tremendous growth in the last few years.

"It's a quiet revolution," said Marty Spears, spokesman for the Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) -- The beef-processing company that makes the product that critics call "pink slime" continues to struggle more than a year after the initial stories on the lean bits of beef that Beef Products Inc. makes.

The Sioux City Journal reports (http://bit.ly/15YXsIh ) the Dakota Dunes, S.D.-based company lost 80 percent of its business after the uproar over what BPI calls lean finely textured beef.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Actavis is buying Warner Chilcott in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.5 billion which would create the third-biggest specialty pharmaceutical company in the U.S.

The new company is expected to be called Actavis PLC and will be incorporated in Ireland, where Warner Chilcott is currently incorporated.

Warner Chilcott shareholders would own a 23 percent stake in the new company.

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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- North Carolina's community colleges are working to train factory workers comfortable in a new manufacturing world of computers and robots.

State community college leaders are meeting Friday with manufacturers to assemble training courses in line with a skills certification plan that's recognized by factories across the country. The program mixes advanced manufacturing education and work-site training to turn out workers who can keep North Carolina makers competitive.