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Your favorite player's number isn't the only one you'll need to know if you want to impress at Final Four viewing parties this weekend. About 100,000 fans are expected to flood into Atlanta from Saturday to Monday to cheer on college basketball's biggest stars. The Louisville Cardinals will face the Wichita State Shockers, and the Michigan Wolverines will come up against the Syracuse Orange.The NC...
Your favorite player's number isn't the only one you'll need to know if you want to impress at Final Four viewing parties this weekend. About 100,000 fans are expected to flood into Atlanta from Saturday to Monday to cheer on college basketball's biggest stars. The Louisville Cardinals will face the Wichita State Shockers, and the Michigan Wolverines will come up against the Syracuse Orange.The NC...
Ana Avendaño, assistant to the president and director of immigration and community action at the AFL-CIO, will appear on the Melissa Harris-Perry show on MSNBC Saturday morning at 10 a.m. EST to discuss creating a commonsense immigration process for America's 11 million aspiring citizens. Follow the Melissa Harris-Perry show and Avendaño on Twitter.
A murder suspect shot a police detective who was interviewing him at police headquarters in Mississippi's capital city, then shot himself, state authorities said Friday.Police had previously not disclosed who fired the shot that killed the suspect, 23-year-old Jeremy Powell. Mississippi Bureau of Investigation spokesman Warren Strain said Friday that Powell shot Detective Eric Smith before ki...
A 13-year-old Georgia boy who hanged himself after reportedly being bullied at school was remembered by family and friends as a hero at his funeral this week.Devin Brown moved to Columbus, Ga., six months ago to live with his father, who says the bullying began shortly after Devin started at his new middle school, according to NBC affiliate WLTZ-TV in Georgia."He got jumped, or somebody beat him u...
A second Texas man has been placed in Kaufman County jail on $1 million bond after being charged with making a terroristic threat against local officials reeling from the murders of two prosecutors.Robert Allan Miller, 52, was booked on Thursday evening, according to Kaufman County jail records."A second person has been arrested and charged with making a terroristic threat following the Texas pros...
A New York snack food maker now says it is recalling 10 million pounds of frozen pizza, mozzarella bites, Philly cheese steaks and other products linked to a rare and potentially dangerous outbreak of E. coli poisoning. Three million pound of the products remain in the marketplace, a company spokesman said Friday.Rich Products Corp. of Buffalo, N.Y., is pulling all products manufactured at its Way...
This is a cross-post, by Aruna Jain, from Working America's blog Main Street.As legislation to raise the minimum wage to $9.95 makes its way through the Minnesota Legislature, Rep. Jason Metsa (D) is taking up Working America’s challenge to live on Minnesota’s current minimum wage for five days.
An abandoned pickup truck police say may have been used by an “anti-government” man to kidnap his two young sons from their grandmother’s house has been found in Florida.Police say that Joshua Hakken, 35, apparently broke into his mother-in-law’s Tampa home after 6 a.m. on Wednesday and fled with the boys aged 4 and 2 – but not before tying up their grandmother.Hakken put the boys, still in their ...
More than 4,000 Georgia education workers who have been wrongfully denied unemployment insurance benefits since a 2011 ruling by the state’s labor commissioner will collect more than $8 million in back payments.
