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The line forms here, or more likely out on the sidewalk and down the block. Wannabe millionaires were flocking to convenience stores, gas stations and other lottery outlets to get in on Saturday's Powerball drawing, the sixth-richest ever, at $320 million."While this is business as usual, we do expect our retail locations to see an increase in foot traffic over the weekend, as sales have already b...
An Ohio prosecutor says Punxsutawney Phil should be predicting the weather from six feet under.With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Michael Gmoser, the prosecuting attorney in Butler County, filed court papers this week indicting the world-famous groundhog for "misrepresentation of early spring" and announcing his intention to seek the death penalty."This is a ground-breaking indictment," Gmoser s...
A bill that creates a commonsense immigration process for America's 11 million aspiring citizens is in jeopardy because of Republican demands for poverty wages.Key Republican senators in the "Gang of Eight", negotiating on the behalf of the business community, corporations and the extreme right-wing, rejected adding language to the bill that would ensure new W-visas would only be issued when employing foreign workers would not hurt wages and working conditions of workers already in the United States.This language is already a longstanding law for temporary worker programs including the H-2B and other visa programs. The Chamber of Commerce in negotiations with the AFL-CIO already agreed to including this language.
Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET: Two teenage suspects were arrested in a small coastal Georgia city a day after a baby was killed and his mom shot, authorities said Friday.The mother, Sherry West, told FOX affiliate WAWS-TV that she was pushing her 13-month-old son, Antonio, in his stroller in Brunswick, Ga., Thursday morning, when two boys – described as about 10 and 15 years old – came up, demanded mone...
Updated at 4:30 p.m. ET: Authorities have arrested two suspects in a small coastal Georgia city a day after a baby was killed, and his mom shot.The mother, Sherry West, told FOX affiliate WAWS-TV that two boys – described as about 10 and 15 years old – came up to her and her 13-month-old son Antonio while she was pushing him in his stroller in Brunswick, Ga., Thursday morning.Brunswick police anno...
By Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, and Deirdre Cohen and Sarah Koch, Rock CenterJames Stewart, a 17-year-old from Denver who committed suicide while in solitary confinement, had never been to jail before August of 2008. That was when, under the influence of alcohol and marijuana, Stewart had gotten into a head-on car collision, killing a 32-year-old man.Because of the severity of his crime, Stewart was...
We already covered how sequestration cuts will affect your state, but here's an update on the pain these cuts are causing in communities across the country since they went into effect March 1. Think these cuts aren't painful? Think again. Here are some highlights on the sequester's reign of terror after the jump.
Sixteen years ago the American public and Kathie Lee Gifford were shocked when it was revealed that the Walmart clothing line that carried Gifford’s name was manufactured—unbeknownst to her—under sweatshop conditions by Honduran children working 20 hours a day. She burst into tears when shown undercover footage of the factories, and consumer support for new rules and labor standards for imported clothing grew. But now, writes Jake Blumgart in a Salon series of articles on workers and workplace issues brought to you by the AFL-CIO, “nothing much has changed.“
WASHINGTON - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday it will close 149 air traffic control towers beginning on April 7 to meet required automatic spending cuts.Another 40 towers previously slated for closure will remain open, the agency said in a statement."We heard from communities across the country about the importance of their towers and these were very tough decisions," Transp...
As March Madness gets under way, a less widely noticed kind of intercollegiate competition is forcing students to churn endlessly through the higher-education system, wasting their own — and taxpayers’ — money.In this game, the players score but it doesn’t count.That’s what happens when students earn academic credit at one university or college, then try to transfer to another, which won’t accept ...
