Wage Contract Issues

Chicago's embattled red light camera firm went to City Hall on Friday in its latest effort to come clean, acknowledging for the first time that its entire program here was likely built on a $2 million bribery scheme. By its sheer size, the alleged plot...

Eager T-Mobile customers wait no more: The iPhone 5 is finally on sale. The big pink carrier began accepting pre-orders for the super-popular Apple smartphone on Friday. Over the last few years, the iPhone has been available on all other major U.S....

Legislation that one Baltimore lawmaker said would create a "new and improved speed camera program" is headed to the House of Delegates, after a committee overwhelmingly approved a legislative package Wednesday in the waning days of the General Assembly...

With just six days left in the General Assembly session, a House of Delegates committee is expected to vote Wednesday on a bill that would increase oversight of speed camera programs in Maryland, tighten rules on camera placement and more clearly bar...

After UConn defeated his team by 68 points in the first round of the NCAA Tournament last week at Gampel Pavilion, Idaho coach Jon Newlee compared Geno Auriemma to two legends: James Naismith, the inventor of basketball and UCLA coach John Wooden. On...

The CTA will receive a cash infusion of at least a half-million dollars a year that won't come from the farebox, and some of it will be paid by customers who are hit by fees from the new Ventra prepaid debit card. The transit agency's Ventra fare system...

A few goodbyes have been said recently at the Lombard Village Hall, and many more are to come. Some longtime employees for the Village of Lombard have voluntarily left their jobs or are on their way out over the next year. Twenty-five of 36 eligible...

From a sprawling United Auto Workers hall outside Detroit, John Zimmick has seen factories close and grown men cry when their jobs disappear. Through all the economic uncertainties of life in auto country, there has been one constant: the union. In...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Washtenaw County has approved contracts with five public worker unions that will enable the unions to keep collecting dues from all covered workers for the next decade, despite Michigan's right-to-work law, which takes effect...

HealthBridge Management has asked a bankruptcy judge to approve what a federal judge barred — terminating the pension and increasing health premium costs for unionized workers at its five Connecticut nursing homes. Those homes entered bankruptcy...

PIERRE -- At least one member of the South Dakota Railroad Board is tired of the delays in the latest try at selling the state-owned railroad line between Napa Junction and Platte.   Dan Baker of Rapid City stood alone Wednesday in voting against...

The state Senate could vote as soon as Tuesday to bar the state and local governments from paying speed camera contractors based on ticket volume and to require that all automated speeding tickets issued in Maryland give drivers enough information to...