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Delano Wingfield makes $9 an hour working in the Union Station food court in Washington, D.C. And it's really hard to get by. “Right now, it’s actually like really tight…” Wingfield told Salon's Josh Eidelson. “Most of my money is on bills and rent.”Wingfield and other cleaning and concessions workers plan to walk off their jobs in federal buildings Wednesday, Eidelson reports, and march on the White House, demanding fair wages and better working conditions.
RIVERSIDE, Calif. -- A naturalized U.S. citizen was yesterday accused taking part in the massacre 160 Guatemalan men, women and children and then lying about it on his application for American citizenship. Prosecutors in the Riverside, Calif.
ABERDEEN, Wash. -- The childhood home of legendary Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, complete with the mattress he slept on, was this week put on the market by his mom in the month that marks the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's final studio album In Utero. To help sell the tired, 1.
“Wild” Willie Seeley of Manahawkin, New Jersey, has one piece of advice for the winner of last week’s $400 million Powerball pot in South Carolina: Run. “Just disappear,” he said, speaking from hard-won experience. “Get lost while you still can.
A U.S. Marine master sergeant faces a preliminary hearing Wednesday in Oahu on charges of unpremeditated murder in the killing of a Las Vegas escort who was visiting Hawaii to celebrate her 29th birthday, authorities said.Master Sgt. Nathaniel Cosby, 38, of Jefferson, Ala.
BOSTON — A state representative with strong ties to Boston's labor movement and a former teacher turned city councilor focused on improving the school system emerged as the top two contenders in Boston's preliminary mayoral election on Tuesday.
Here's a snapshot of some of the top stories we're following Tuesday evening:American survivor recounts Kenyan siege horrorA chance table change during lunch may have led to an American woman surviving the horrific siege at a Kenyan mall over the weekend. Read more at NBC News.
LAS VEGAS — Police said Tuesday they were searching nationwide and at the Mexican border for a southern Nevada teenager accused of killing his mother and younger brother and living for at least a short time with their bloody bodies in the bathroom of their apartment.
In an eerie echo of events earlier this month in Oklahoma, skeletal remains were discovered Tuesday in the car of two teenage girls who disappeared 42 years ago, a day after it was found wheels-up in a South Dakota creek, authorities said.
