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Surveillance video footage that investigators said shows Washington Navy Yard shooter Aaron Alexis in the moments before his deadly rampage captured the man entering the facility in his car and walking down hallways and staircases armed with a shotgun.
Nurses at Northside Medical Center in Youngstown, Ohio, conducted a one-day work stoppage Tuesday in their fight against management contract proposals that, among other provisions, would prohibit nurses from speaking out about patient safety and quality care, according to the Youngstown General Duty Nurses Association (YGDNA).Sign the petition to tell management nurses deserve a fair contract.
Children exploited in the commercial sex trade in the United States are too often overlooked—and tend to be treated as criminals rather than victims, according to a Department of Justice-commissioned study released on Wednesday.
A Chicago-area man who helped found a heroin-abuse support group faces felony charges after allegedly selling heroin to undercover police.Peter K.
The state of New York will begin treating most alleged prostitutes as victims rather than criminals, and seek to steer them toward medical treatment, job training and other social services to break the cycle of sex trafficking.
A Virginia middle school has suspended as many as three students for the remainder of the academic year after they were seen shooting a toy pellet gun near a school bus stop earlier this month.Virginia Beach's Larkspur Middle School principal was contacted by local police on Sept.
In the first of many concrete moves after the AFL-CIO passed a resolution at its national convention to create new and lasting community partnerships to open and broaden the labor movement, the federation announced today that it entered a new national partnership with United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS). The primary goals of the new alliance are to strengthen workers' rights and build power for students and workers. One of the major themes of the national convention was the need for the AFL-CIO to make the labor movement more open and to forge stronger alliances with non-labor groups, and this is the first step down that path.
BREWSTER, Mass. -- He calls it "the yellow brick road" because it's literally sprinkled with gold dust. This road runs along Cape Cod's shifting seafloor, and undersea explorer Barry Clifford believes it leads to undiscovered treasure from the wreck of the pirate ship Whydah.
If you are in Houston this Saturday and have an interest in vintage aircraft or just a desire to help people with serious illnesses get the treatment they need, a group of National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) members in the Houston area have devised a unique event you should check out.Vectors for Hope—founded by the NATCA members—has organized it first-ever charity fly-in for Saturday, Sept. 28, at David Wayne Hooks Airport. All proceeds will benefit organizations that provide free air transportation to treatment facilities for patients with life-threatening illnesses—Angel Flight South Central, the Houston Ground Angels and Around the World for Life.
This week, the Transport Workers (TWU) union is hosting its 24th Constitutional Convention in Las Vegas.Check out all the video highlights from the TWU Convention here, and watch the video in the post from TWU about its wins for workers in recent years.
