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Mavis L. Wanczyk won the enormous lottery winnings on Thursday after she purchased a ticket at the Pride Station & Store convenience store in Chicopee on Wednesday.

NOAA's National Hurricane Center said early afternoon that Harvey had become a hurricane with 80 mph sustained winds.

A rescue mission became a search for remains as the Navy released the names of the missing USS John S. McCain sailors.

The Skies Just Got Friendlier for Working People: Worker Wins

Our latest roundup of worker wins begins with flight attendants and air traffic controllers standing together to make the skies safer for working people and travelers and includes numerous examples of workers organizing, bargaining and mobilizing for a better life. 

Flight Attendents Reach Tentative Agreement with Mesa Airlines: Flight attendants at Mesa Airlines, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA-CWA), stood together in efforts to have the work they do as aviation's first responders recognized. They successfully announced that they have negotiated a tentative agreement with management on a four-year agreement that would provide more than 1,100 flight attendants with economic and quality of life gains.

Teachers Who Train Air Traffic Controllers Join IAM: In an effort to make the skies safer and improve the lives of working people, more than 280 instructors at SAIC in Oklahoma City have joined the Machinists (IAM). Facing a strong anti-union campaign from SAIC, the instructors successfully organized and now have more leverage to make sure the...