The United Auto Workers failed in its effort to organize a Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama, but the loss on Friday was a good result for a first effort in a historically anti-union state, labor professors and analysts said. Employees at the Vance, Alabama, plant voted 56% against joining the union. Until the UAW won overwhelmingly last month at a Volkswagen plant in Tennessee, the union had repeatedly failed to organize a foreign-owned automaker in the region for its nearly 90-year existence.
Kansas City Chiefs players Wayna Morris and Chukwuebuka Godrick were arrested for misdemeanor marijuana possession, according to the Johnson County, Kansas Sheriff.
We take a look back at the 2008 Game 7 duel between Paul Pierce and LeBron James as part of our "Defining Moments" series, presented by VA New EnglandDefining Moments: Paul Pierce and LeBron James Game 7 Duel originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston