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As officials scramble to fix the technical bugs plaguing HealthCare.gov, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Wednesday that it will hold daily briefings to update reporters on the progress of what President Barack Obama has called the “tech surge.
On Columbus Day, dozens of the 160 Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation workers (SMART) training centers opened up their state-of-the-art facilities to the public and introduced politicians, community leaders, architects and prospective students to the apprenticeship programs that teach and shape tomorrow’s sheet metal workers.This post originally appeared on the AFL-CIO's @Work site.
A student at the Nevada middle school where a 7th grader allegedly went on a shooting spree on Monday said that she remembered the suspected shooter as friendly, and said he might have gotten the idea from an anti-bullying video.
A mannequin in the passenger seat of a parked van led San Diego police to two Texas fugitives.San Diego police spotted the large white van with Texas plates parked near a Costco in Kearny Mesa east of San Diego.
Colleen Ritzer had the challenging job of getting sleepy, slouching high school students to work geometry proofs — the tedious building of evidence to show that two angles are congruent, or two lines parallel.
A 19-year-old college student from Queens says he was handcuffed and locked in a jail cell after buying a $350 designer belt at Barneys on New York's Madison Avenue because he is "a young black man.
In what amounts to either a stunning misunderstanding about how the judicial system works in the United States or a calculated ploy to try to undermine a legitimate court ruling, labor relations officials in Gov. Scott Walker's (R) administration in Wisconsin attempted to limit a ruling that rebuffed Walker's attack on the collective bargaining rights of school district and municipal workers to only two cities. Officials at the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission (WERC) argued that Dane County Circuit Judge Juan Colas' 2012 ruling applied only to public workers in Milwaukee and teachers in Madison, since those were the original litigants.
CLEVELAND - An Ohio grand jury probing whether additional crimes were committed in the Steubenville teen rape case has indicted on theft charges the daughter of a school employee accused of obstructing the rape investigation, authorities said Wednesday.
Matthew Cordle, the Ohio man who confessed in a YouTube video that he killed a man while driving drunk was sentenced to six and a half years in prison Wednesday.
Jersey City business owner Steven Kalcanides, who runs Helen's Pizza, invited Mayor Steven Fulop to officially sign the city's new paid sick days ordinance at his restaurant. Kalcanides has already been offering his employees paid sick days and not only has he been able to continue making a profit, his turnover has been very low, with many of his workers staying with him for more than five years.
