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WASHINGTON - Union members from across the country gathered at the Lincoln Memorial on Sunday for a rally dubbed the Million Worker March, assembling in smaller-than-expected numbers but making a passionate plea for workers' rights.
"The majority of working people in America are not doing well," said Clarence Thomas, 57, a crane operator on the Oakland, Calif., docks and a leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 in San Francisco, one of the key organizers of Sunday's rally. "With jobs being offshored, outsourced, privatized, our young people are looking at a much more dismal future."
A law enforcement official estimated the crowd at less than 10,000. Organizers said between 10,000 and 15,000 attended.
Highway reopens after string of Md. crashes
WHITE MARSH, Md. - Traffic resumed flowing smoothly on Interstate 95 on Sunday, a day after more than 90 vehicles crashed in a string of collisions apparently triggered by a blinding storm.
The sudden, fast-moving storm dumped hail and rain along an 11-mile stretch of the highway, one of the busiest on the East Coast. No deaths were reported, but authorities said 50 people were injured, some seriously, in 17 separate accidents involving 92 vehicles in suburban Baltimore.
Smoke, but no fire, wafts through West Wing
WASHINGTON - An air circulation unit went on the fritz at the White House Sunday and sent smoke through parts of the West Wing.
"What happened is the air intake unit was malfunctioning and that caused the smoke," Secret Service spokeswoman Ann Roman said. "There was no evacuation."
Smoke filled several areas of the West Wing, including the White House briefing room, cubicles used by the press and offices occupied by the Bush administration's communications officials.
Television cameramen said the smoke smelled like burning wires, but Roman said there was no fire.
She said the problem occurred in the basement near the press lobby. An alarm sounded at 10:22 a.m.
County to start tracking porn at crime scenes
LOGAN, Utah - A sheriff's department in northern Utah is requiring deputies to begin documenting pornography found at crime scenes and during arrests.
Lt. Matt Bilodeau, spokesman for the Cache County Sheriff's Department, said that although no connection between legal porn viewing and criminal behavior has ever been proven, police have seen a steady increase in porn associated with crimes.
Dani Eyer, head of American Civil Liberties Union of Utah, compared the program to scouring a suspect's bookshelf and trying to create a criminal profile from the things that person reads.
"It's one thing to collect evidence to crimes, but it's another thing to link thought and association to crime," she said.