Corey Levesque News Today

It’s been a good month for Michigan sports teams. The University of Michigan won the football national title. The Detroit Red Wings have played themselves back into playoff conversation, and how about the rise of the Detroit Lions.

In spite of its “militant” posturing, the Teamsters bureaucracy is under immense pressure to work out a deal before the July 31 deadline to avoid a strike by 340,000 UPS workers.

A man wanted on several warrants took his own life in Van Buren yesterday, just before being taken into custody by police.

Maine State Police say a 38-year-old man is dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after Troopers responded to an apartment building in Van Buren Tuesday afternoon.

Trooper Nathan Desroser from the Maine State Police and Officer Kyle Scott assisted McPherson.

Trooper Nathan Desroser from the Maine State Police and Officer Kyle Scott assisted McPherson.

Trooper Nathan Desroser from the Maine State Police and Officer Kyle Scott assisted McPherson.

For postal and UPS workers, the peak season started in March with the pandemic... and it never let up. Photos: IMF Photo Cory Hancock (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), Michael Shea Every year, workers at the Postal Service and UPS expect to work long hours between Thanksgiving and Christmas. “This is like our Super Bowl,” said Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Workers (APWU). “Employees really do rally together.” But this year has been like no other. Workers were still catching their breath...

UPS and Postal Service Workers Struggle With COVID and High Volume Letter carrier Steve Guerra sorts mail at his station inside the Roxbury Post Office in Nubian Square before heading out to deliver mail and packages in Boston on December 1, 2020. Lane Turner / The Boston Globe via Getty Images By Every year, workers at the Postal Service and UPS expect to work long hours between Thanksgiving and Christmas. “This is like our Super Bowl,” said Kimberly Karol, president of the Iowa Postal Wo...