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An Oregon high school student accused of hatching a Columbine-style bomb plot was charged Tuesday as an adult with attempted murder and possession of a destructive device.Grant Acord, 17, was ordered held on a $2 million bail. He was not physically present, but appeared in court via closed-circuit television from a secure location, according to Reuters.Acord did not enter a plea deal and was order...
Sean Collier, a college police officer allegedly slain by the two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon, was posthumously appointed to his local police department on Tuesday – realizing his dream of joining the force, officials said.Collier, 27, was shot multiple times on April 18 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology following an altercation with the suspected attackers as an i...
An Oregon high school student who will be arraigned Tuesday on charges he hatched a Columbine-style bomb plot suffers from a rare form of obsessive-compulsive disorder caused by childhood infections, his mother said.Grant Acord, 17, will be charged as an adult with attempted aggravated murder and possession of destructive devices that authorities said included pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, a Dran...
The embattled dean of Harvard College, Evelynn Hammonds, announced on Tuesday that she will step down this summer, following months of controversy over her decision to authorize secret searches of faculty email. Hammonds, who will remain a professor at the prestigious university, had given conflicting accounts about her decision to scan the subject lines of email accounts belonging to 16 deans, in...
A New York Times editorial this weekend criticizes Republican obstructionism designed to stop the National Labor Relations Board from protecting workers' rights by blocking President Obama's appointments to the board.On a more global scale, similar opposition to unions is contributing to a business climate that allows tragedies like the recent deaths of 1,100 factory workers in Bangladesh to happen. In The Washington Post, Lance Compa argues that a stronger labor movement in the countries that build the products sold by multinational corporations like Walmart, Apple and many others would go a long way to improving worker safety and working conditions.
