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The son of a United Steelworkers (USW) member is leading a Murray (Ky.) State University student protest against their school's choice of U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell as this year's graduation speaker. The lad is Devin Griggs, who won the outstanding labor youth award from the Kentucky State AFL-CIO at the state convention in 2011.
As authorities closed in on the Boston Marathon bombing suspects -- one of whom was killed during a violent shootout in Boston's Watertown suburb early Friday night -- Twitter and other social media outlets lit up with outtakes from police scanner reports, including a moment when eavesdropping tweeters heard the name of a missing Brown University student come over the airwaves in conjunction with ...
Boston and its surburbs, universities and transit system were on total lockdown Friday as police hunted for marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev -- on the loose after his accomplice brother was killed in a stunning chain of events that left one cop dead and another injured, officials said.Authorities were confronting a double-edged nightmare: a ruthless killer at large in a densely populated...
The hunt for two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings evolved rapidly through Thursday night and the early hours of Friday morning, with authorities ordering a total lockdown in Boston after engaging in an overnight battle with the suspects, who were armed with guns and explosives. The two men, who authorities said are brothers with international connections, allegedly robbed a 7-Eleven b...
