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Governor Charlie Baker will be joined by Economic Development Secretary Jay Ash to discuss the upcoming winter storm.
Sureshbhai Patel, 57, was walking in his son's Madison neighborhood on Feb. 6 when police forced him to the ground in an incident caught on video.
The city of Philadelphia is set to become the 17th city (along with three states) that requires paid sick leave after Mayor Michael Nutter (D) signed legislation passed yesterday by the City Council. Philadelphia is the second city, after Tacoma, Wash., to pass paid sick days this year so far. Nutter previously vetoed similar laws because he said the economy couldn't handle the change during a recession.
The teens have filed a federal complaint alleging "blind devotion" by school board members to the World Series hero-turned-coach.
The newsman was killed in a car crash in New York City, and died from blunt-force injuries to his head, torso and extremities, an autopsy says.
Gov. Tom Wolf says the state's current system of capital punishment is "error-prone, expensive and anything but infallible."
President Obama and Apple CEO Tim Cook speak at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University.
Calling the new Congress 'anti-Hispanic,' Linda Sanchez, and Joaquin Castro warn the GOP not to stop President Obama's immigration executive action.
In the face of aggressive attacks on the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), a wide range of national organizations is standing up and fighting for one of the more widely used and important public goods in the United States. The Grand Alliance to Save Our Public Postal Service unites 60 groups in opposition to weakening the USPS for the sake of private investment and profit. Actor and activist Danny Glover supports the alliance and explains why, in a new video sponsored by the organization.
There are at least 43 million U.S. workers who cannot earn a single paid sick day and have to decide between losing wages or even risking their jobs to take care of their own illness or a sick family member. On Thursday, Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced the Healthy Families Act that would give workers the opportunity to earn up to seven paid sick days they could use for personal illnesses or to take care of sick family members.
