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Five women who were killed Saturday evening after the stretch limousine they were riding to a bridal party burst into flames on a bridge over the San Francisco Bay tried to escape the inferno through the vehicle’s narrow partition, according to the driver.Orville Brown, 46, sounded shaken as he described the horrific episode to NBCBayArea.com. According to the station, Brown said he heard commotio...
A friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged with lying to investigators after the Boston Marathon bombings can be released from jail as long as the judge imposes strict conditions to make sure he shows up for future hearings, federal prosecutors said Monday.In a joint court filing, prosecutors and defense lawyers proposed that the friend, Robel Phillipos, be confined to his home and ordered to wear an e...
This video of a Transport Workers (TWU) young workers march in New York City is just the latest example of young workers coming together and standing up for their rights and talking about issues that affect them and other working families. Young workers face different issues than older workers but still share many of the same concerns.
Last summer, a respected policy expert from the Brookings Institution spoke at a large meeting. He introduced himself, saying that he works with a lot of brilliant economists who can't understand why the recovery is so slow.Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman has an explanation,"...corporations use their growing monopoly power to raise prices without passing the gains on to their employees."
A former student charged with lying to investigators after the Boston Marathon bombings says he was “frightened and confused” under questioning and will argue Monday that he should be released from jail.Lawyers for the former student, Robel Phillipos, said in court papers filed over the weekend that he is not a flight risk and that he had nothing to do with the marathon attack itself.Phillipos is ...
