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BEIJING - Chinese factory workers released an American executive who they had held captive for almost a week after a compensation dispute was resolved on Thursday, union officials said."The mass labor dispute incident for this unit has been resolved," said Chu Lixian, head of the rights and interests department of the Huairou District Labour Union. "Both sides have come to an agreement through jo...
BEIJING -- A U.S. company boss held hostage by his Chinese workers at a Beijing plant for nearly a week in a compensation dispute said Thursday an agreement on a payout has been reached to allow his release.Chip Starnes told The Associated Press a deal was reached overnight to pay the dozens of workers who had demanded generous severance packages similar to ones given to co-workers in a phase...
Two pilots ejected safely just before an F-16 fighter jet crashed Wednesday night near Luke Air Force Base in Glendale, Ariz., authorities said."There has been an incident at the base, and an investigation is beginning," Rusty Mitchell, a spokesman for the base, told The Arizona Republic of Phoenix.Glendale fire spokesman Gilbert Mancilla told KNXV-TV of Phoenix that the pilots were found in a fie...
Editor’s note: This story contains racially charged language which may offend some readers.A 19-year-old woman who was on the phone with Trayvon Martin moments before his death testified that she heard the start of a confrontation between the teen and another man who Martin believed was following him the night he was shot.“I kind of heard Trayvon say, ‘Get off, get off,’” Rachel Jeantel said in a...
A custom-made bike for a double amputee veteran was found Wednesday morning, after it had been stolen two days earlier along with four other vets’ bikes in Alaska, police said.The bike was built by an organization called Ride 2 Recovery for Matt DeWitt, an Army veteran who served six years in Afghanistan before losing his forearms. DeWitt said the first time he rode it was Monday, the first day o...
A custom-made bike for a double amputee veteran was found Wednesday morning, after it had been stolen two days earlier along with four other vets’ bikes in Alaska, police said.The bike was built by an organization called Ride 2 Recovery for Matt DeWitt, an Army veteran who served six years in Afghanistan before losing his forearms. DeWitt said the first time he rode it was Monday, the first day o...
On the surface it looks like the American armed forces have executed a stunning reversal on the issue of gay troops in just 21 months — the time spanning the end of 'Don’t Ask Don’t Tell' and the Defense of Marriage Act, struck down Wednesday by the Supreme Court. And while gay service members and their spouses say military culture has moved toward acceptance and away from whispers, investigations...
Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez drove his friend to a remote spot in an industrial park in the dead of night and — still fuming from a fight at a nightclub three nights earlier — "orchestrated his execution," prosecutors alleged in a Massachusetts court Wednesday.Hernandez pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder and five firearms charges, including possessing a large-capaci...
CHICAGO — Heavy rains slammed Illinois and other Midwest states on Wednesday, triggering flash flood warnings and causing flight cancellations, commuter train delays and road closings.Up to 5 inches of rain fell in some places, and the National Weather Service warned residents in the region to brace for more downpours and possibly severe thunderstorms Wednesday night.The weather service issued mul...
