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A U.S. Navy non-com who was swept away along with four of his young children is the latest victim of the Washington mudslide to be identified.Billy Spillers, 30, a chief petty officer in the Navy, had moved to the Oso neighborhood two years ago from Seattle with his wife, Jonielle, and their kids.
Applebee’s is conducting an investigation after a New Mexico woman claimed that she found a metal bolt in her burger. KOB's Danielle Todesco reports.
Here are some headlines from the working families’ news we're reading today (after the jump).
The plane went down nose first while the passenger was filming the pilot for a low-budget production.
It’s tornado season again in Oklahoma. The ominous clouds and warm air one day last week reminded Danni Legg of the afternoon last May when a twister laid waste to the city of Moore and killed her 9-year-old son.“Your heart drops,” she said.
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to take up an appeal from a photographer who refused to shoot a same-sex commitment ceremony.The court's action leaves a lower court ruling in place, finding that the photographer violated a state anti-discrimination law.
Think Progress reports that Pacer Cartage, a California logistics company, is being ordered to pay more than $2.2 million in back pay to short-haul truck drivers it illegally misclassified as independent contractors. The California Labor Commissioner's Division of Labor Standards Enforcement says that the company knew or should have known that the drivers were employees and not contractors and Pacer is required to pay restitution, attorney's fees and interest.
A hot air balloon carrying seven passengers crashed into power lines in Indiana this weekend, and the dramatic incident was caught on camera. No one was seriously hurt.
A Massachusetts wedding venue went up in flames this weekend just minutes after the couple said “I do.” Everyone inside got out safely.
If you listen to extreme right-wing business types, you'd think that America's workers shouldn't be given paid vacation days, or any form of paid leave for that matter, because those workers will only abuse the days off and it'll hurt their employers' ability to even survive as a business. This opposition to paid leave has led to the United States being the only one of the world's 21 richest countries without mandated paid vacation days for all workers. According to a new survey from Glassdoor, however, America's workers are not only not abusing paid vacation days, or even using all of the ones they have, most people in America work during their paid vacations.
