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Just as amazing as slain Nevada teacher Mike Landsberry's actions — confronting an armed student out for blood — is how many times other school employees have done the same thing.
Three people were killed Tuesday when a medical hospital crashed in Tennessee on its way to pick up a patient for treatment at a children's hospital, authorities said.
Americans who believe marijuana should remain illegal are now in the minority, according to new poll numbers released Tuesday.For the first time ever in a Gallup poll, a clear majority of the country – 58 percent – say that pot should be legalized.
Two more inmates were in the process of obtaining forged release documents at the same Florida prison two convicted murderers walked out of using bogus papers, officials said Tuesday.
More than 21,000 Puget Sound-area grocery workers narrowly averted a strike Monday night when their bargaining team reached a tentative agreement with the national grocery chains Safeway, QFC, Albertsons and Fred Meyer. Members of United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) locals 21 and 367 and Teamsters (IBT) Local 38 will be voting in the coming days on ratification of the contract that has been unanimously recommended by the bargaining team.
Two Delta Airlines flights made unplanned landings Monday night in unrelated incidents.A Delta flight from Atlanta made an emergency landing at Tri-Cities Airport in Washington state after a false alarm with one of the plane’s cargo bay sensors on Monday night.
Investigators searched for a motive in the fatal shooting of a teacher and the wounding of two middle-school students by an unidentified 12-year-old who opened fire on Monday in Nevada.
The Center for American Progress released a new report, Middle-Out for Millennials, on how America’s economy is failing young workers. The report, by Sarah Ayres, provides a sobering assessment of the obstacles facing the most recent generations to join the workforce.
Jennifer Lewis has seen what can happen when workers don’t have a voice on the job. Her mother was fired for standing up to her boss. Now, as an AFSCME Council 8 organizer and recent graduate of the Organizing Institute, she’s helping Ohio workers win the voice her mother didn’t have. She says:My Mom stood up and so am I.
She's a leader in one of the movements trying to get a raise in the minimum wage, and she caused quite the disruption at this meeting where the president of McDonald's was speaking. And yes, she went to jail for asking a simple question.
