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A 46-year-old Austin, Texas, man died while swimming in the Escape from Alcatraz Triathlon, event organizers said.
Vice President Joe Biden speaks in Alabama at the annual commemoration of the Selma to Montgomery bridge march of 1965. (NBC News)
A Brooklyn man has been charged with faking his own kidnapping — and he may have concocted the whole story to avoid his girlfriend's wrath.
There was an eerie silence, broken only by the crunching of wood. For two and a half hours, a crane picked apart the home that had already been destroyed by a deadly sinkhole.
An Alabama police chief brought Rep. John Lewis to tears Saturday, apologizing to the noted civil rights leader for failing to protect the Freedom Riders during a trip to Montgomery in 1961.
A young couple en route to a hospital to have their first child was killed in a car crash in New York City early Sunday but the baby was born at the scene and survived.
An Unaccommodating Situation is a cross-post from Working America’s Dear David workplace advice column.Question:If you are under doctor direction not to return to a full schedule or work only half- or part-time, can HR say that you either come back full-time or not at all? I had surgery that my doctor said required me to work no more than part-time. The school let me work a part-time schedule though they didn’t let me teach the classes that would have been best for my students. They also lambasted me for it and think I should have come back right away. Now the district policy is full-time or nothing. No partial-time doctor’s notes will be accepted. Can they do this?
Crews planned to begin demolishing a Florida home that is perched over a huge sinkhole, after deeming it too dangerous to keep searching for the man swallowed up from his bedroom.
Crews began demolishing a Florida home Sunday that is perched over a huge sinkhole, after deeming it too dangerous to keep searching for the man swallowed up from his bedroom.
