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The Air Force official in charge of its sexual-assault prevention program was arrested for groping, authorities said Monday.Lt. Col. Jeff Krusinski, 41, was removed from his position as head of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office pending an investigation, the Air Force said.The incident happened just after midnight Sunday when a drunken Krusinski allegedly approached the woman in a p...
He’s the undertaker for the unwanted.Peter Stefan, the Massachusetts funeral director stuck with the body of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, has been tending to the forgotten, the forsaken and the flat-broke for years.“He’s bent over backwards to serve the least in the community for decades,” said Josh Slocum, executive director of the Funeral Consumers Alliance."He's probably one of the few pe...
Last week Walmart said it would speed up its plan to hire returning military veterans that it announced in January. AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says Walmart’s latest move “is more about public relations than honoring our heroes.”We owe it to our returning veterans to make sure they are treated as the heroes they are, rather than as symbols used to “greenwash” Walmart’s eroding brand. After facing enemies abroad, is an $8.81 an hour part-time job the best we can offer returning veterans?
AFL-CIO's chief economist William Spriggs appeared on the Thom Hartmann show with Karen Nussbaum of Working America and author Stewart Acuff to talk about the big picture of labor in America.
A small team of Special Forces operatives was ready to fly from Tripoli to Benghazi last year after Libyan insurgents attacked the U.S. mission there, but was told it was not authorized to board the flight by regional military commanders, according to a career State Department official scheduled to testify before Congress on Wednesday.Gregory Hicks, then deputy chief of the U.S. diplomatic mission...
New York State Sen. John Sampson, a Democrat representing parts of Brooklyn, New York City, was indicted Monday on federal charges of embezzlement, obstruction of justice and lying to the FBI, officials said.Sampson was a court-appointed referee to watch over escrow accounts for sales of foreclosed properties in Brooklyn. It's alleged he embezzled $440,000 between 1998 and 2008.He's also accus...
