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The 2014 Union Plus Scholarship application is now online and you can click here to fill out your application. Each year Union Plus provides $150,000 in scholarships to members who belong to a union participating in any of the Union Plus programs.The deadline to apply for a 2014 scholarship is noon EST on Jan. 31.
Three young children, including a 7-month-old, perished in a house fire that injured their father and two other children late Wednesday in northwestern Indiana.Fire crews fought back the 10:15 p.m.
Tensions between the United States and India continued into the new year over the Devyani Khobragade case.
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
A 66-year-old assistant principal at a Westchester high school has been charged with siphoning nearly $800,000 over seven years from teacher's union funds he presided over as treasurer, prosecutors say.
Tens of thousands of customers in several counties in Ohio are facing a dramatic water shortage after the intake valves at a key plant that draws water from Lake Erie apparently froze amid the wild winter weather.
Two crew members died and another is missing after a U.S. Navy helicopter made an emergency water landing off the coast of Virginia on Wednesday, the Navy said.
The worst of the brutally cold "polar vortex" that plunged millions of Americans into a deep freeze was over Wednesday, forecasters said, and though temperatures were still below normal gradual warming was on the way.
The Obama administration Wednesday issued new guidelines on classroom discipline, seeking to end the apparent disparities in how students of different races are punished for violating school rules.
