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A North Chicago police officer driving the wrong way on Lake Shore Drive early Friday morning caused a three-vehicle crash that killed two men, a department lieutenant told NBC Chicago. Terrel Garrett was in an SUV that crashed into a Jeep and a Toyota Scion at about 4 a.m.
A twin-engine private plane crashed into a Florida parking lot in Fort Lauderdale Friday leaving a mass of burned cars among the wreckage. NBC’s Brian Williams reports. (Nightly News)
A missing Fox executive who is presumed to have been killed was in a relationship with the wife of a convicted drug dealer who is a person of interest in the case, Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials said.
The North Dakota Senate on Friday approved banning abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, sending what would be the most-stringent abortion restrictions in the U.S. to the state's Republican governor for his signature.
JPMorgan Chase lost more than $6 billion on a bad bet known as the “London whale” trades and then tried to conceal its losses from regulators, investors and the public according to a report released last night and hearings held today by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.When media reports surfaced in April of last year that a JP Morgan Chase trader had “amassed positions so large that he’s driving price moves in the $10 trillion market”, JP Morgan Chase executives quickly responded by holding a call with investors and analysts.
Since 2010, right-wing governors and legislators have attacked workers’ rights across the Midwest. These attacks have come in different forms: from stripping public workers’ collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin to an all-out ban on fair share contracts in Michigan and Indiana.In Missouri, extremist legislators and their corporate backers are taking a different tactic. They are pushing paycheck deception bills, which limit how union workers can make their voices heard in the political process.
A bill to outlaw capital punishment cleared the state Legislature on Friday, and Gov. Martin O’Malley, a Democrat, has said that he will sign it.
The head of an American Indian tribe in Michigan signed a law approving same-sex marriage, then immediately wed a gay couple who had been together for 30 years.
A divided jury was deliberating again Friday on the fate of a Wisconsin father accused of horrifically abusing his teenage daughter -- who told police she was locked in a basement and practically starved.
As previously reported, the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) has been saying that Patriot Coal was specifically designed to fail so that former parent company Peabody Energy Corp. could eliminate health care costs associated with former workers in their mines. Patriot was originally spun off of Peabody and was started with much of Peabody's obligations to its retired workers, but very little of Peabody's assets. UMWA argued that Patriot was using bankruptcy to get out of living up to those obligations. Now Patriot filed a motion with bankruptcy court to create a Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) to replace the existing retiree health care system. According to UMWA, the VEBA would cover only a fraction of the obligations owed to retired workers and their families.
