Employees at Los Angeles International Airport were considering plans Friday to walk off the job ahead on what is traditionally the busiest traveling day of the year. A coalition of Southland labor and community leaders are calling for the protest of alleged violations by LAX contractor Aviation Safeguards (AVSG) after breaking their contract with the airport earlier this year. Read Article
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Detroit Tiger and accused anti-Semite Delmon Young pleaded guilty in Manhattan today to a random, drunken bias attack on a male Midtown tourist from back in April. It’s a deal that keeps the free agent outfielder out of jail and will eventually leave him with no criminal record. The $6.7 million-a-year player had lost $250,000 […]
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The woman left brain dead after a vicious mugging in Flushing died at a Long Island medical facility late last month, and a Queens congressman helped secure a visa allowing her brother to come to America to claim her body.Wei Yang and his wife arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport from China after the […]
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The Canada Border Services Agency says a pair of teenagers planning to board a flight out of Vancouver had swallowed more than 300 pellets of drugs in a smuggling attempt. A border guard became suspicious of the 17- and 18-year-old males during questioning on Sunday. Read article
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A Virginia woman was transported with minor injuries following a single-vehicle accident in Mercer County Tuesday. According to Deputy W.E. Rose, with the Mercer County Sheriff’s Department, Fallon White of Falls Mills, Va., was traveling eastbound on Airport Road when she lost control of her vehicle and struck an embankment. The vehicle then rolled over […]
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ANADARKO, Okla. — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says one person has been killed in the crash of a single-engine airplane near the airport in Anadarko. Lt. George Brown says troopers were notified of the crash about 1 p.m. Tuesday and that the only person that appeared to be on board the plane was killed. Read […]
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Sixteen people in New York state are suffering from E. coli O157:H7 infections, apparently as a result of eating Wegmans Organic Spinach and Spring Mix. The product was supplied to Wegmans by State Garden, Inc. (Chelsea, MA). The outbreak victims are mostly from western New York state. Four people required hospitalization; three of those have […]
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Close to 800 people who do airport security screening at 17 airports across Atlantic Canada are represented by the United Steel Workers union. Their contract with Securitas Transportation Airport Security will expire Oct. 31. The workers have already voted in support of a strike. Security at airports is governed by the Canadian Air Transport Security […]
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The St. John’s International Airport Authority said today it has repeatedly stated its willingness to re-start negotiations in the current strike by airport workers but its efforts have been rejected by the union representing the workers. About 85 airport workers, members of the Union of Canadian Transportation Employees local 90916, have been on strike since […]
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A potential strike by about 800 airport security workers in Atlantic Canada has been delayed by the federal labour minister asking for a ruling on whether they provide an essential service. The workers are employees of Securitas Transportation Airport Security, which has the contract for airport security at 17 airports in the four Atlantic provinces. […]
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