The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Chipotle workers unionize:
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Workers at a Chipotle store in Michigan have voted to unionize, becoming the first of the Mexican fast-food chain’s 3,000 locations to do so amid a broader unionization push across the country. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said workers at a Chipotle store in Lansing, Michigan,“voted overwhelmingly”thursday to form a union with the Teamsters.
73 rescued after ferryfire:
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A Philippine ferry carrying 82 passengers and crew caught fire as it was approaching a port south of Manila on Friday and at least 73 of those aboard have been rescued, the coast guard said. Search and rescue efforts were continuing for the passengers and crew of the M/V Asia Philippines, an inter-island cargo and passenger vessel that came from nearby Calapan city in Oriental Mindoro province,
Microsoft co-founder’s art being 3 auctioned: Some 150 artworks from the collection of Microsoft co-founder Paul G. Allen will be auctioned at Christie’s in New York this fall and are expected to bring in more than $1 billion, Christie’s and Allen’s estate announced Friday. The works to be auctioned span 500 years of art history from Old Masters to the giants of modern art,
4 killed in Arizona shooting:
A 4 local constable, who was also a U.S. Army veteran, was among four people fatally shot at an apartment complex while an eviction notice was being served in Tucson. The suspected shooter was also one of the dead.
Rabies vaccine drop begins:
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U.S. Department of Agriculture has begun scattering millions of packets of oral rabies vaccine from helicopters and planes over 13 states from Maine to Alabama. The aim: to keep raccoons from spreading their strain of the deadly virus to states where it hasn’t been found or isn’t widespread.