Health and Safety at Work

The City Council this week approved a new contract with the police union this week that includes a 6.5% salary increase for officers, but that will also require them to pay their full share of retirement contributions. Even with officers paying more...

Civil War Rail Trail could benefit all residents of county To the editor: Sen. Christopher Shank provides opinion without knowing the facts regarding the proposed Civil War Rail Trail from Hagerstown to Weverton. He believes it will increase...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana regulators will release a report Wednesday on their investigation into August's deadly stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair. The state Department of Labor said Monday that the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health...

When people come to the Reisterstown office of Drs. Eickhoff & Rowe for eye exams, the optometrists do more than simply ask which line of letters they can read on the eye chart. Like other eye doctors, James Eickhoff starts with a "complete case history,...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — High winds. Lightning. Hail. A severe thunderstorm warning. A huge crowd waits for country duo Sugarland to take the stage. That exact scenario ahead of last summer's deadly stage collapse at the Indiana State Fair was eerily...

When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Oppurtunity Commission, conservatives cheered, and liberals were dismayed. The case originated when the Lutheran school...

A letter from Newman University to the White House. "I don't know if he's going to read it or not,” University President Noreen Carrocci said. Carrocci sent her first letter ever to a U.S. president Monday. She's upset over the Obama...

Before they headed out to their assigned locations for Job Shadow Day 2012, Sara Hansen and Cynthia Cortez, both 14-year-old eighth-graders from Holtville, were told to bring loose-fitting clothing. Although they knew they were going to a local...

SkillsUSA is an organization for students enrolled in programs of trades, industry, technology and health occupations. One of the events sponsored by SkillsUSA is District Competition. Here students from all the schools in the District get together to...

Many Republicans think that Attorney General Rob McKenna is the party's best hope of taking back the Governor’s mansion. It's been 32 years since Washington elected a Republican to the office.  McKenna said that as governor, his No. 1 priority...