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Phil Smith, director of communications for the Mine Workers (UMWA), sent us this music video this week by singer/songwriter Tom Breiding about the campaign to preserve jobs and health care benefits for miners and retirees of Patriot Coal.
Several hundred boys, girls, tweens, teens and toddlers whose parents are out of work found the holiday spirit of giving is alive and well in Portland, Ore. Last week the Northwest Oregon Labor Council and Labor’s Community Service Agency (LCSA) held their annual “Presents from Partners” holiday party for children of out-of-work union members.
A barrage of snow, ice — and even the threat of powerful tornadoes — could spell a "holiday travel nightmare" for people journeying to see family and friends before Christmas.
Askari Abdullah Muhammad was set to die Dec. 3 — his death warrant signed in October after the convicted killer spent more than 30 years on Florida’s death row.But Muhammad wasn’t executed.
New Yorkers who've latched on to electronic cigarettes to get their nicotine fix at the local bar had their hopes snuffed out Thursday as the New York City Council overwhelmingly voted to add the smokeless smokes to the city's ban on smoking in public places.
One woman is dead and 21 others were hospitalized after a tour bus heading to Valley View Casino overturned on the southbound I-15 at State Route 76 near Fallbrook Thursday afternoon.
The gunman who opened fire inside a Reno clinic claimed in a suicide note that a botched surgery had been performed at the same office where he killed a doctor and himself, police said Thursday.
The gunman who opened fire inside a Reno clinic claimed in a suicide note that a botched surgery had been performed at the same office where he killed a doctor and himself, police said Thursday.
A Mississippi man, who was supposed to be wearing a monitoring bracelet, allegedly kidnapped two young brothers, sexually assaulted them and slashed the throat of one — who still managed to escape and get help — authorities said Thursday.The man, James Harold Smith, 41, of Leetown, Miss.
The fired former commander of the Air Force’s arsenal of ballistic missiles drank too much, had “associations” with foreign women and made rude comments to his hosts during a visit to Russia for military exercises, an inspector general’s report revealed on Thursday.
