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ATLANTA — A founder of the nationally known Dragon Con science fiction and fantasy convention pleaded guilty in Georgia on Monday to molesting three boys and will serve time under house arrest in a case that began with his arrest 13 years ago.
Hours after his wedding, a Kansas City, Mo., firefighter was fatally shot in the chest by a police officer following an incident early Sunday, police said.At 2:30 a.m.
CONCORD, N.H. — A traveling medical technician was sentenced Monday to 39 years in prison for intentionally infecting dozens of patients in four states with hepatitis C through tainted syringes.
In an Op-Ed that ran in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka describes new approaches to organizing workers that are showing promise in the South:
Three weeks shy of winter, another wintry storm is filling forecasts from Washington to Wisconsin and threatening to dump as much as 15 inches of snow.“We currently have almost 2.5 million people under a winter-storm warning,” said Kelsey Angle, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
NEW YORK -- Investigators are analyzing the black-box data recorder recovered from a commuter train that derailed as it hurtled around a sharp curve in the Bronx, killing four people and injuring dozens of others.
DeMaurice Smith, executive director of the NFL Players Association (NFLPA), says the National Football League likely hasn’t seen the end of lawsuits by players who have suffered injuries.Smith, appearing Sunday on “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” said that despite the league’s recent $765 million settlement with former players’ lawsuits accusing the league of not telling players about links between repeated traumatic head impacts and long-term brain injuries, including Alzheimer’s disease, “reality will dictate that it’s never really the end of lawsuits.”
A serial killer died on Sunday after serving less than three years of a life sentence for strangling seven women, according to South Dakota prison officials.
When Dana Wilson was a teenager, she was offered a job at a local supermarket where union members were on strike. She asked her mother, Denver-based United Airlines Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA) member Stefani Wilson, what the employer meant when he said she would have to cross the picket line.
A high school in Toledo, Ohio, was on lockdown Monday morning while police negotiated with a student armed with a gun, officials said.The school superintendent's office said the student is alone in a classroom and administrators know his identity.
