A postal worker, a truck driver and a high school student were among the seven people gunned down in a mass shooting in Texas over the weekend, officials and relatives said Sunday. Twenty-two people, including a 17-month-old girl, were also injured in the rampage, which occurred after a traffic stop between the west Texas cities of Midland […]
Five people were dead and 21 injured Saturday after a motorist opened fire in random shootings around Odessa, Texas, police said. Three of the injured were law enforcement officers — a state trooper, an Odessa police officer and a Midland police officer, Chief Michael Gerke said at a news conference. Gerke said the attack happened […]
(CNN) – Authorities arrested 35 people and seized enough fentanyl to kill roughly 14 million people in a three-state drug bust announced on Thursday by the US Justice Department. The alleged drug trafficking ring is an example of fentanyl coming to the US from China, said US Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger of the Eastern District […]
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — 8/29/19 – A former postal worker from Massachusetts who stole from customers along her route and was accused of smoking crack on the job has avoided prison. The Telegram & Gazette reports that 38-year-old Stephanie Lacroix was sentenced to three years of probation on Wednesday. The Fitchburg woman was also ordered […]
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4)– Instead of delivering the mail, an Englewood letter carrier was stealing it. Randy Younger, 47, avoided prison and was sentenced by federal judge William Martinez to three-and-half-years probation including six months home detention. It was a combination that provided trouble, Younger was both a mailman and a drug addict. He admitted stealing […]
NALC News – 8/29/19 – NALC today filed a lawsuit against the Postal Service in the federal district court in Washington D.C. The suit asks the court to issue an injunction stopping the Postal Service from continuing its Consolidated Casing Initiative until NALC’s pending national level grievance is resolved. The grievance over consolidated casing is […]
ENFIELD, Conn. (WWLP) – Family and friends will gather Wednesday to say their final goodbyes to the postal truck driver from Enfield who was killed in last week’s crash in Longmeadow. Daniel Nacin was killed when a pickup truck collided head-on with his postal truck in Longmeadow at the end of a police pursuit that […]
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WHEC)- A United States Postal Service facility on Lyell Avenue is closing temporarily due to a mercury leak. The Postal Service says that the Processing and Distribution Center located on Lyell Avenue is being closed temporarily after an elevated reading of mercury was detected from a package that was leaking inside the facility. […]
GRINNELL, Iowa — Working his dream job for over 30 years, Grinnell knew they could count of Dwayne Kriegel to deliver the mail rain or shine. “His patrons loved him. They set bottles of water out for him in the heat and hot cocoa for him in the winter months,” said his wife, Tammy. Last […]
Connecticut letter carrier killed on his route NALC is deeply saddened to learn that 59-year-old letter carrier Daniel Nacin, a member of Branch 86 in Hartford, Connecticut, was killed in a car accident on his route, Thursday, August 22. Several Enfield, Connecticut police cars were in pursuit of a fleeing pick-up truck, when the offender […]