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A driver was held on suspicion of murder Monday two days after a car plowed through Los Angeles' popular Venice Beach boardwalk, killing a young Italian woman in the U.S.
California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) ordered a board of inquiry Sunday night to investigate the contract negotiations between the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) authority and the unions representing the system’s 2,400 workers. The order averted a strike—for at least seven days—that was likely to begin this morning if negotiators were unable to reach a new contract.The unions, Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1555 and SEIU Local 1021, told reporters that they hoped the boards’ investigation would reveal BART management’s failure to bargain in good faith and its lack of commitment to reaching a fair settlement.
This past Tuesday, I had the opportunity to participate in a half-day workshop on immigration reform, sponsored by the AFL-CIO and the Economic Policy Institute. Held at the AFL-CIO's headquarters in Washington, D.C., the focus of the session was on why a road map to citizenship for America's undocumented residents is an essential component of reform, a topic that is increasingly relevant as certain House Republicans argue for creating a legalization process that would exclude citizenship as the ultimate endpoint.
The trial of Whitey Bulger — two months that featured gruesome and often colorful testimony but never a defense from the reputed gangster himself — wraps up Monday with closing arguments in Boston.
A pregnant woman sitting on a park bench in Queens, New York City, was struck and killed by a falling tree Sunday evening, and another woman hit by the tree was seriously injured, according to authorities.The tree fell on the women at around 6:30 p.m. in Kissena Park, Fire Department officials said.
A driver was held on suspicion of murder after a car plowed through Los Angeles' popular Venice Beach boardwalk, killing a young Italian woman in the U.S. for her honeymoon and injuring 11 other people, authorities said Sunday.
A driver was held on suspicion of murder after a car plowed through Los Angeles' popular Venice Beach boardwalk, killing a young Italian woman in the U.S. for her honeymoon and injuring 11 other people, authorities said Sunday.
LAWTELL, La. — A train carrying hazardous materials derailed in Louisiana, and two railcars were leaking chemicals, forcing the evacuation of about 100 homes, officials said. One man went to the hospital complaining of eye irritation.
