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Machinists (IAM) at the Boeing Co. voted to accept an eight-year contract extension Friday that ensures production of Boeing’s 777X will remain in Washington State. The 51% to 49% vote also means Boeing will maintain production of its 737 MAX in Renton through 2024. Analysts estimate the two programs could account for as many as 20,000 direct and indirect jobs and billions of dollars in economic activity.
Here are some headlines from the working families news we're reading today (after the jump).
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Law enforcement agents in New Jersey have redoubled efforts to fight what they worry could be one of the biggest menaces to come with next month's Super Bowl: sex trafficking.Hundreds of thousands of visitors are expected to descend on New Jersey for the Feb. 2 football game.
Bone-chilling temperatures caused by a "polar vortex" sweeping the United States were due to reach the East Coast Monday morning, after record lows forced the cancellation of thousands of flights and even froze the engines of an Amtrak train for nine hours.
The body of Jari McMath, the 13-year-old California girl declared brain dead after suffering complications from routine tonsil surgery, has been released to her mother by coroners, the hospital that had been treating her said in a statement Sunday.
A man missing since Wednesday was found by his family after this photo appeared in the pages of USA TODAY.Nicholas A. Simmons, 20, disappeared from his family's house in a tiny upstate New York town New Year's Day.
Guy Padraic Hamilton-Smith graduated in the top third of his law school class at the University of Kentucky, but the state Supreme Court blocked him from taking the bar exam because he is a registered sex offender.
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Three new schools will open in Joplin, Missouri, this week, the latest step in the town's recovery from a devastating 2011 tornado that killed 161 people and destroyed 8,000 buildings.
An American Airlines flight from San Francisco to New York was forced to make an emergency landing in Kansas City on Sunday afternoon because a electronic device thought potentially to be a bomb was found on board, authorities said.
One person died and another was critically hurt after a large fire broke out in a midtown Manhattan high-rise Sunday morning, officials say.More than 200 firefighters worked to put out the three-alarm blaze, which began on the 20th floor of the 40-story building at 500 West 43rd St., on 10th Avenue.
