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Labor Day is an opportunity to take stock of the ways workers are honored and respected, writes the Most Rev. Stephen E. Blaire, bishop of Stockton, Calif., in the annual United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' Labor Day statement.Here are excerpts from the bishops’ message. Read the full message here. Earlier this year, Pope Francis pointed out:Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person....It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation.
The parents of a 1-year-old girl shot to death in her babysitter's arms in New Orleans are hoping the community's outrage can be harnessed to end gun violence against children, a family spokeswoman said Saturday.
Smoke from a huge wildfire blanketed Yosemite Valley for the first time on Saturday -- a blow to tourists on one of the busiest weekends in one of the nation's most popular national parks.
A fire tore through a home, spewing flames from the windows and killing four children, neighbors said. The four victims had been pulled from the burning upstate New York home by firefighters and medics but died later.
A woman running from the sound of gunshots died early Saturday after the driver of an SUV hit her in the Bronx, N.Y., police said.Officials said Abigail Lino, 24, of Manhattan, was killed while trying to cross the street near the corner of Bruckner Boulevard and Austin Place in Mott Haven.
MARIANNA, Fla. - Teams of searchers recovered human bones from the sands of Florida Panhandle woodlands on Saturday in a "boot hill" graveyard where juveniles who disappeared from a notorious reform school more than a half-century ago are believed to have been secretly buried.
A Newport Beach, Calif., man was convicted and sentenced to six years in state prison for stealing $2.7 million worth of wine from his clients’ storage lockers and under-reporting over $3.5 million in payroll to his workers' compensation insurance carrier, prosecutors said on Friday.
The Naval Academy midshipman who has been testifying in a military hearing about an alleged sexual assault by three fellow students requested on Saturday to be excused from the witness stand until Monday, citing exhaustion.
SAN FRANCISCO - Add fairy tale weddings to the list of casualties from the mammoth wildfire blazing in and around Yosemite National Park.
