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Irís Munguía began toiling at a banana packing plant at age 18, living on the banana finca (plantation) as a condition of employment. After 22 years at the plant, the longtime union activist now heads the Honduran banana and agricultural worker confederation, COSIBAH (Coordinadora de Sindicatos Bananeros y Agroindustriales de Honduras), founded in 1993. Munguía also is the first female coordinator of COLSIBA, the Latin American coordinating body of agricultural unions.
An underwhelming winter storm that put Washington, D.C. into a tizzy moved into New England on Thursday, where it was expected to bring more of the snow that blanketed the Midwest.
A man angry about being sent away from a Connecticut Dunkin' Donuts came back wielding an ax.
A man angry about being sent away from a Connecticut Dunkin' Donuts came back wielding an ax.
Nearly six months after the start of a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak blamed on tainted pain shots, patients who originally tested clear are showing up sick, raising worries that the incubation period for illness may be longer than anyone thought.
Like so many things in Washington, D.C., the winter storm that was supposed to bring the nation's capital to a crawl on Wednesday proved to be overhyped and underwhelming.
Long an endangered predator, the northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf is once again the prey.
Criminal charges will not be filed against anyone involved in the case of an elderly California woman who collapsed at a retirement home and later died after a nurse refused a 911 dispatcher’s pleas to perform CPR, police in Bakersfield, Calif., said Wednesday.
Waitress comes face—to—face with woman who stole her ID. KUSA's Will Ripley reports. (NBC News)
States with a heavier dose of firearm laws tend to have the lowest rates of gun deaths, according to a new study by researchers who argue their findings show "there is a role" in America for more rigid gun-control legislation.
