There is a nationwide shortage of welders; Graduates of training programs can make $20 an hour; Demand is expected to grow 15% by 2020; The acrid smell of liquified metal hangs heavy in the air as ...

Christopher Peeples, 26, is at the end of a mandatory 10-year prison sentence for armed robbery when he was barely 17. "If it's an opportunity for me to dive into welding and they say I have a job ...

BOSTON April 4, 2014— -- The blaze that killed two Boston firefighters last week was started by sparks from a welder's torch and the welders allegedly fled without alerting anyone, Boston ...