Labor board ruling on graduate student employment rankles universities, lawmakers
People walk on the Columbia University campus in New York City. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) The nation’s most-elite universities have watched graduate students fight for the right to be represented as employees, knowing that even if teachers and research assistants formed unions, schools were under no obligation to recognize the students in negotiations. Not anymore. A National Labor Relations Board decision granting graduate students the legal protection to unionize now forces privat..>> view originalState patrol investigating shooting incident on Interstate 77
CANTON, Ohio — A woman was shot in the hand and grazed by a bullet in the head while driving early Wednesday on Interstate 77. The Ohio State Highway Patrol said the woman was shot about 3:30 a.m. near the 13th Street S.W. exit in the southbound lanes. The investigation closed I-77 southbound near that exit and remains closed as of 8:20 a.m. The ramp from U.S. 62 westbound to I-77 south is also closed as the state patrol conducts the investigation. A trooper found the woman's 2005 Kia miniv..>> view originalAuthorities seek pair in California woman's death, kidnapping of 3 kids
Authorities in Southern California searched Tuesday for a man and a woman suspected of killing a woman, kidnapping her three small children and leaving the state. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement that warrants have been issued for Joshua Robertson, 27, and Brittany Humphrey, 22. Robertson and Humphrey are suspected of killing Kimberly Harvill, whose body was discovered Sunday in brush along a remote road in northern Los Angeles County in the unincorporated Lebec a..>> view originalSiblings of deaf North Carolina man shot by police demand answers
share tweet pin email comment () The siblings of a deaf man fatally shot by a North Carolina trooper following a traffic stop are questioning what role their brother's hearing impairment played in his death. Daniel Harris' brother and sister insisted he was not armed when he was shot just outside his Charlotte home after being chased by a state trooper for seven miles. They believed their ..>> view originalAnger after fire kills 3 kids, man; arson suspect's family defends him
Shaun Staples said nothing as he stood on the sidewalk across from the charred apartment building. He kept his arms at his side as a relative gave him a long hug. He turned his face away from where his 7-year-old daughter had just died.The child whose name he tattooed in cursive on his right wrist. Shaniya Staples died along with two younger girls, Melanie Watson, 3 months, and Madison Watson, 4, when an extra-alarm arson fire spread through the two top floors of their South Side apartment buil..>> view originalA homeless woman's $100000 smile after Social Security paid what it owed her
Wanda Witter smiled this morning — a big, $100,000 smile. After battling Social Security for years, the 80-year-old woman who was homeless until a week ago got one of the biggest I-told-you-so’s that a person can hope for. “Ready?” asked the SunTrust bank teller, before spinning his monitor around to show Witter the new amount in her account on Tuesday morning. She’d been checking with him almost daily (she won’t use an ATM machine), to see if she’d finally received the money owed to her. On T..>> view originalSuspect in Alabama house murders used ax, gun in middle of night, police say
CITRONELLE, Ala. – A man accused of slaying five people at an Alabama home brought an ax to attack his victims, striking one who had been sleeping in a reclining chair, and also used guns he took from the house to shoot them, an Alabama sheriff said Tuesday. Derrick Dearman entered the house in Citronelle before dawn Saturday, Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran told The Associated Press. "They were down for the night sleeping, and he had enough familiarity with the house when he entered — I g..>> view originalThere is Now No Doubt Now: The Media Are Biased, and Obama Doesn't Care About Black People
Matt Vespa is the Associate Editor at Townhall.com. He previously worked for CNSNews.com and was the recipient of Americans for Prosperity Foundation's 2013 Andrew Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Activism and Investigative Reporting.>> view originalThe problem with Trump's question to black voters, 'What the hell do you have to lose?'
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump repeated his pitch to minority voters in Ohio on Aug. 22, asking them "What do you have to lose?" and promising to "straighten it out" in inner cities. (The Washington Post) Donald Trump has a new strategy to win black voters, who are overwhelmingly rejecting him in polls. Black voters consistently support Democrats, but Trump argues that things couldn't get any worse for them if he were in the White House, so they might as well try supportin..>> view originalObama tours Louisiana amid criticism that he's late
"We are heartbroken by the loss of life," Obama said after seeing firsthand the damage in the state's capital that has caused more than 106,000 residents and households to register for assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. More than 60,000 homes were damaged, officials said, and 13 people were killed."I think anybody who can see just the streets, much less the inside of the homes here, people's lives have been upended by this flood," he added.The flooding has created political..>> view original
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