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An agreement has been reached and 2,500 Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) workers are back on the job this morning. The tentative agreement was announced by leaders of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1555 and SEIU Local 1021 late Monday night.
The nation’s economy added 148,000 new jobs in September, compared to 169,000 jobs created in August. The 7.2% jobless rate is slightly down from August’s 7.3%, according to figures released this morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.While today’s report reflects 42 straight months of job growth, the pace is weak, sluggish and just enough to absorb new entrants into the market and makes little dent in the jobs deficit.
A mathematics teacher was hailed as a "hero" after being fatally shot while apparently trying to shield students from a 12-year-old boy who opened fire at a Nevada middle school on Monday.
President Barack Obama says no one is more upset than he is with the glitches that have hampered open-enrollment in the Affordable Care Act — but some Americans who have tried time after time to sign up might disagree.
A judge on Monday rejected a motion by prosecutors to remove her from the Aaron Hernandez murder trial.
Unions representing transit workers in the San Francisco Bay Area resumed negotiations with management Monday in an effort to end the four-day-long strike that has left commuters in gridlock, transit officials said."If we can reach an agreement by 6 p.m.
Authorities have yet to figure out what motivated a 12-year-old boy to open fire at a Nevada middle school early Monday, killing a mathematics teacher and wounding two boys before taking his own life.
ORLANDO, Fla. — Casey Anthony, the Florida mother acquitted in the 2008 killing of her 2-year-old daughter, has reached a settlement with a search and rescue organization that spent $100,000 looking for her missing daughter, the group's lawyer said on Monday.
A judge appointed a special prosecutor on Monday to investigate the alleged rape of a 14-year-old Missouri girl at a party that was recorded on a cell phone.
A student apparently opened fire at a Nevada middle school Monday, killing a teacher and wounding two boys, authorities said. The shooter was left dead.A hospital said that the two boys arrived in critical condition. One was later upgraded to fair.
