45K Verizon workers strike over new labor contract
Forty-five thousand unionized Verizon Communications Inc. workers from Massachusetts to Washington, D.C., went on strike Sunday after negotiations with the telecommunications company over a new labor contract fizzled. | Posthumous degrees given to Ala. students killed in tornadoes
Two days after a tornado took her sister's life in April, Michelle Downs Whatley crossed the stage at her own college graduation wearing her lost sister's shoes. Saturday, she and other family members of those who died in the April tornadoes received posthumous degrees in honor of their loved ones from the University of Alabama.
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