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Tom Viola, longtime executive director of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA), will receive the 2013 Patrick Quinn Award for Distinguished Service to Actors, presented by the Actors' Equity (AEA) Foundation.BC/EFA is one of the nation's leading industry-based not-for-profit AIDS fundraising and grant-making organizations, raising more than $225 million since its founding for much-needed services for people living with HIV/AIDS and their families and other critical health issues nationwide.
A Maine man who spent 27 years in the woods as a hermit pleaded not guilty to new burglary charges Tuesday as his lawyer and prosecutors tried to make a deal to avoid trial.
Former Army psychiatrist and convicted killer Maj. Nidal Hasan could be sentenced to either life in prison or death by lethal injection as early as this week for gunning down 12 soldiers and one civilian at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.But the U.S.
A California wildfire that has scorched an area bigger than the size of Chicago near Yosemite National Park was 20 percent contained Tuesday, officials said. But the raging blaze was expected to move farther into the park and threaten a reservoir that provides most of San Francisco's water.
Emergency medical workers, massage therapists, bus mechanics and home health care workers are among the latest workers to choose a voice on the job with AFL-CIO unions. In California and Arizona, some 240 emergency medical services professionals voted recently to join United EMS Workers-AFSCME.
The lawyer for one of the 16-year-olds charged with fatally beating World War II veteran Delbert Belton said there's scant evidence against his client.
There is a big strike in Colombia, and you probably don’t know about it. Farmers and others are protesting over a variety of grievances, including the devastating effect of free trade agreements, privatization and inequality-driven poverty. Corporate-owned American media is not covering it. These trade agreements make the really rich really richer while outsourcing jobs to places where people can’t object to the low pay and working conditions. This undercuts wages here. The end result is a race to the bottom.
Some of the top stories NBC News is following Tuesday:Drumbeat grows for strike on SyriaThe White House is getting ready to release the evidence — characterized by Secretary of State John Kerry as “undeniable” — that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons.
MELBOURNE, Australia - President Barack Obama has spoken of the “extra measure of evil” involved in the killing of baseball player Christopher Lane, who was shot while out jogging in Oklahoma.
A California wildfire that has scorched an area roughly the size of Chicago near Yosemite National Park was 20 percent contained Monday night, officials said — a jump from 7 percent the previous night.
