Feed items

At least nine people were injured and others may be trapped after an explosion and collapse at a livestock feed plant in Omaha, Neb., NBC News affiliate WOWT reported.Thirty-eight employees were inside Industrial Nutrition at 10 a.m. when the accident occurred.

Two babies were found buckled in their car seats and dumped on a Florida sidewalk after a thief stole their mother’s vehicle while they were still inside, police said Monday.The 1-year-old and 3-year-old were in the vehicle when it was stolen outside a hotel in Orlando just after 8 p.m. Sunday.

Meteorologists on Monday added as much as 10 inches of snow to their frigid forecasts as another winter blast descends on the Midwest and Northeast.

The lieutenant governor of New Jersey on Monday flatly denied a mayor’s allegation that Gov. Chris Christie’s administration withheld hurricane relief money because the mayor would not support a real estate project important to the governor.Lt. Gov.

Today, as we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy and working families all over the country are coming together in marches for civil and workplace rights, we ask you to join them in a simple pledge.Wherever you are, you can commit to stand with us in the fight for equality and justice for all workers' civil rights in 2014.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy lives on Monday with special events across the nation, from parades to church tributes to youth-led service projects on the federal holiday to remember the civil rights crusader.

An 88-year-old man shot his wife in the chest as she lay in her Nevada hospital bed Sunday, police said.William Dresser was put on suicide watch after being arrested on suspicion of attempting to murder his wife in the Carson City ward, according to a report by The Associated Press.

Marcia Newfield and Rosalind Petchesky are both professors at the City University of New York. They both have advanced degrees. They both have been teaching for decades and are in their seventies.

A new blast of cold air that hit the Northeast and the Midwest on Sunday won't be as biting as the cold that kicked off January, but it was bad enough to cause the derailment of a coal train in Wisconsin.

The New Jersey mayor who accused Gov. Chris Christie's administration of holding hurricane relief funds hostage met Sunday with federal investigators looking into Christie's alleged political retaliation and strong-arm tactics, the mayor said.