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Alice Phillips of Tacoma, Wash., is a union leader who’s willing to create a little buzz.At least, that’s the sound the clippers will make when Phillips, the IBEW business manager, fulfills her pledge to get a Mohawk haircut if the members of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 483 would double last year’s donation of union-made peanut butter as part of the Letter Carriers’ National Food Drive. They brought the jars. So she’s on the hook.
More than a year after video footage of U.S. Marine snipers purportedly urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan surfaced on YouTube, setting off a storm of controversy in the Middle East, the officer in charge of that platoon will be court-martialed for his alleged misconduct, military officials announced.Capt. James V. Clement will be tried for dereliction of duty, conduct unb...
WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board is considering Tuesday whether to recommend to states that they lower the blood-alcohol content that constitutes drunk driving.Currently, all 50 states have set a BAC level of .08, reflecting the percentage of alcohol, by volume, in the blood. If a driver is found to have a BAC level of .08 or above, he or she is subject to arrest and prosecuti...
