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Jersey City police say someone broke into a storage locker of Dr. Nisar Quraishi and stole some 40,000 documents, including social security numbers.

Isis Lawson of Bakersfield, Calif., remembers a time, before the rise of the militant army in the Middle East, when her "divine" name was a "posative conversation starters."

About 200 people gathered near the city’s police department overnight Wednesday, pelting five cops with rocks or bottles. No injuries were reported.

Surveillance video shows man flinging Molotov cocktail into a Michigan family's home as they slept inside. WDIV's Will Jones reports.

The money is funding research at the University of Florida led by Dr. David Weinstein, who says a cure for the disease is on the horizon.

Some 1,000 mechanics, technicians and maintenance personnel employed by URS at the Red River Army Depot near Texarkana, Texas, voted this week to join the Machinists (IAM). The workers voted by 61% for IAM representation in a daylong election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board.

AFGE filed suit Monday to stop the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA's) new poultry inspection rule that replaces 25% of the current USDA-trained food safety inspectors with poultry company employees and speeds up the processing lines by 400%. AFGE President J. David Cox said:

Police and protesters clashed Ferguson, Missouri, on Wednesday night after tensions escalated during a scheduled demonstration.

Here are some headlines from the working family’s news we're reading today (after the jump).

The Texas Task Force on Infectious Disease Preparedness and Response holds its first hearing, focusing on preparedness for initial identification and isolation of patients with Ebola.