In a recent OSHA document, the first to come out after a federal law required employers to report severe work-related injuries, has found a disturbing trend of “numerous reports of fingertip amputations among workers using food slicers.” The first year…
The Obama administration will be implementing a new rule surrounding silica in order to potentially prevent 600 deaths in the United States each year. Crystalline silica is a dust, 100 times smaller than a grain of sand, that comes from…
President Barack Obama officially shortened the sentences of 61 imprisoned drug offenders on Wednesday, March 30. The President of the United States has the power to grant pardons and commutations to convicted felons that he believes “deserve a second chance.”…
Alabama Governor Robert Bentley is facing a scandal after a law enforcement officer exposed evidence of the governor’s affair with one of his top advisors. The police officer was fired on the same day he made the allegations, and the…
The average family of four may use up to 400 gallons of water a day, have an average of two cars, and make an average of $63,000 a year — and the woman of that family is more likely to…
A terrorist attack targeting Christians killed over 70 people in Punjab province of Pakistan on Easter Sunday. As Pakistani Christians were celebrating Easter in a crowded park, a suicide bomber took his life along with many others in an area…
Although there are more environmental initiatives aimed at saving the planet these days, there’s always more that can be done. FirstEnergy Corp., an Ohio-based diversified energy company, wants to be a part of that effort and recently announced their latest…
Signed into law six years ago on March 23, 2010, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been criticized, scrutinized, and ridiculed, but it’s also loved, cheered, and adored since the beginning. For the first time in American history,…
President Obama made widespread changes to healthcare when he passed the Affordable Care Act in 2010. The act, informally known as “Obamacare,” recently turned six years old, and the president is celebrating the occasion by helping to fund preventative programs…
Farmers are some of the most undervalued members of American society, so it’s only right that they get one day a year to educate the masses about what farming means to the country.According to local news affiliate WBNG Binghamton, National…