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An elementary school principal charged with failing to report child abuse in the wake of the Steubenville rape case is off the hook if she completes 40 hours of community service and rape awareness work, officials announced Wednesday.
A man charged in the beating death of a priest in the Northern California city of Eureka tried to blow up a rectory by turning on the gas from a stove and leaving behind a lit cigar, police said in court documents obtained Wednesday.
A U.S. Navy helicopter went down off the coast of Virginia on Wednesday morning, prompting a search-and-rescue operation for the five people aboard. There was no immediate word on their fate.
In restaurants and other industries where workers earn the tipped minimum wage ($2.13 an hour), employers expect the customer to pay their employees.
Venezuelan police were questioning five people in connection with the murder of soap star Monica Spear and her ex-husband in a roadside ambush, officials said.
Raise the minimum wage? Psshh, let's lower it.
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
Travelers stranded by the arctic blast hovering over the United States have had to deal with more than just finding a place to plug in their cell phones while they wait for their flights, trains or buses: For many, the delays have resulted in lost time at work, missed classes, and unexpected fees.
The brutally cold "polar vortex" that plunged millions of Americans into a deep freeze was easing Wednesday -- but temperatures remained between 10 and 20 degrees below seasonal averages.The weather system was receding north, having set new record low temperatures in 50 cities on Tuesday.
A Maryland man was being held on $400,000 bond Tuesday after local, state and federal authorities discovered working bombs, more than 100 pounds of bomb-making chemicals and numerous manuals for creating bombs and booby traps in his home, fire investigators.The man, Todd Dwight Wheeler Jr.
