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Arrest warrants are issued and a University of Akron fraternity is suspended following the beating of a student with a paddle, leaving him hospitalized. WKYC's Shannon Kantner reports.

While it has risen to become one of the most successful corporations in the new economy, Amazon.com has mastered the art of creating a bad work environment like no other company (except maybe Walmart). At Salon, Simon Head documents the extreme measures the online retailer uses at its fulfillment centers (the company's fancy name for its warehouses). Here are the 20 most extreme abuses Head finds.

He cleaned up, all right.A Georgia man was tidying his room and came across a month-old lottery ticket that was gathering dust — and turned out to be worth a million bucks.Gregory Jarrett, 26, of the Atlanta suburb of Decatur, had matched five numbers in the Powerball drawing of Jan. 15.

In a new book, Restoring Shared Prosperity: A Policy Agenda from Leading Keynesian Economists, edited by Thomas I. Palley and Gustav A. Horn, some of the leading economists in the United States take a close look at the recent financial crisis in the United States and abroad and describe how to speed up and expand the recovery to benefit the entire country. Featuring an introduction from AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and essays by a host of the brightest minds that think about the economy, including a chapter by AFL-CIO policy director Damon Silvers, the book is a comprehensive look at the facts and myths about America's economy and how to fix it.