A federal judge Thursday denied a bid by the California Grocers Association to temporarily overturn a Long Beach ordinance mandating an additional $4 in hourly “hero pay” for supermarket workers who face greater risk performing their jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II concluded that in its argument for a […]
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 Tuesday to adopt an urgency ordinance requiring national grocery and drug retail employers in unincorporated areas of the county to pay frontline workers an additional $5 per hour hazard or “hero pay” for the next 120 days. Supervisor Kathryn Barger voted against the measure, to take […]
Traveling nurses Amanda Picchi and her boyfriend Kyle Murray, just made the final arrangements for Amanda’s father, Tom Picchi, a beloved nurse at Desert Regional Medical Center. “We watched for months now people losing their family members and it’s so shocking when it happens to yourself and your family, even though we’re nurses and we […]
(CNN) — Bob Nill helped students safely cross the street outside of their school in Kansas City, Kansas, every morning for the past five years. The kids loved him. But on Tuesday, Nill was struck and killed by a speeding black sedan. In his last moments, Nill, 88, saved the lives of two young boys […]
An 18-year-old died trying to save his family from a car submerged in water after it plunged off a gravel road and into a canal in Delaware Sunday morning. The teen was driving his two younger brothers, his girlfriend, and a cousin to a youth football game around 9:41 a.m. ET when their car went […]
Classmates of a teenager who died days after saving a mother and son from drowning have honored him in a huge way: by spelling out the word “HERO” on the school’s field for the world to see. Cristian Burgos, 17, rescued a 9-year-old boy who tried to swim out to his 25-year-old mother off Virginia […]
A Florida teenager is being hailed a hero after protecting his sister from a home invasion. The Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Prummell said 15-year-old Khyler Edman was inside his home on Thursday afternoon when a man, identified as Ryan Clayton Cole, broke in. “The suspect broke into this residence a violent encounter ensued where we […]
