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A former Montana high school teacher who has served a 30-day prison sentence for the rape of a teenage student was due to be released from prison on Thursday – as the victim’s mother said the teacher is “still skating” justice.
Harry Lombardo, 64, was elected international president of the Transport Workers (TWU) at the union's convention in Las Vegas this week. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Lombardo replaced James C. Little, who headed the union since 2006.
Of all developed nations in the world, the United States has the most unequal distribution of income...and it's getting worse. Tomorrow, you can find out why and what we can do to change this when “Inequality for All,” a new documentary by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, opens in select theaters across the country.Click here to find a theater near you and opening dates and here to visit the film’s Facebook page.
FORT WORTH, Texas -- A glitzier, high-tech version of America's $100 bill is rolling off the presses and headed for wallets soon.
NEW YORK -- A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced a former translator for the U.S. Army in Iraq to 25 years in prison for trying to sell anti-aircraft missiles and other military weapons to the Taliban in Afghanistan.Alwar Pouryan, a U.S.
A gunman who was allegedly disgruntled "over a bad business deal" remained at large early Thursday, hours after he opened fire at a Long Island mall killing one person and wounding another.Investigators from three police forces and the FBI continued to search for suspect Sang Ho Kim.
KENNEBUNK, Maine -- Former President George H.W. Bush was an official witness at the same-sex wedding of two longtime friends, his spokesman said.
Detroit’s municipal pension fund made payments for decades to retirees, active workers and others above and beyond normal benefits, costing the struggling city billions of dollars and helping push it into bankruptcy, according to people who have reviewed the payments.
WASHINGTON -- Democratic and Republican U.S. senators introduced legislation on Wednesday to end the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' communication records and set other new controls on the government's electronic eavesdropping programs.
