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Skilled and alert operators prevent an unknown number of injuries and fatalities on New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) subway tracks each year. Yet in 2012, dozens of people died and scores of others suffered non-fatal injuries on MTA’s tracks. The workers who operate those trains decided to do something about it. They launched a campaign to influence MTA officials to improve track safety.
This week, we celebrate Social Security's 78th anniversary. There is a lot to celebrate. For nearly eight decades, Social Security has provided seniors with a secure retirement income and prevented retirees from falling into poverty. Social Security lifts more than 21 million Americans out of poverty, including over 14 million seniors. It is doing just what it was designed to do.
The 16-year-old California girl kidnapped and then rescued in the Idaho backcountry apparently broke her silence on social media and offered new details about her ordeal — saying that her captor “deserved what he got” when he was shot to death.
A large plane crashed Wednesday morning near the airport in Birmingham, Ala., causing multiple explosions, NBC affiliate WVTM is reporting.According to initial reports, the plane was a UPS cargo plane.WVTM reports the plane is burning and there have now been at least three explosions.
Pfc. Bradley Manning could take the stand in the sentencing phase of his court-martial on Wednesday, as the former intelligence analyst convicted of giving secret information to Wikileaks faces up to 90 years in prison.
SAN DIEGO -- The 16-year-old California girl kidnapped by a close family friend suspected of killing her mother and 8-year-old brother says he threatened to kill her if she tried to escape and got what he deserved when he died in a shootout with authorities in the Idaho wilderness.
Hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate their homes after a raging wildfire that has already charred almost 100,000 acres began to nip at the edges of two Idaho mountain resort towns.
A police SWAT team stormed a rural Louisiana bank early Wednesday, killing a gunman after he fatally shot one hostage and critically injured another, in a dramatic 12-hour standoff.
A lone gunman held up a Louisiana bank and shot two hostages before police killed him, Tuesday afternoon.The suspect - identified as 20-year-old Fuaed Abdo Ahmed – took two women and man captive at about 12:30 p.m. local time Louisiana State Police superintendent Col.
