Bus rams tractor-trailer on I-20\nTALLULAH, La. -- A church bus from Texas slammed into a into a tractor-trailer Monday on Interstate 20, killing six people and injuring at least nine.\nState police spokesman Lt. William Davis said it appeared that the tractor-trailer had stalled and was pulled over on the shoulder of the road when it was struck.\nAt least 15 people were on the bus when it crashed around 11 a.m. west of this northeastern Louisiana town. Davis and ambulance workers both said six of those on board died. The bus driver survived.\nInvestigators said the driver may have fallen asleep at the wheel.\nThe bus was from the First Baptist Church of Eldorado, Texas. A woman who answered the phone at the church Monday afternoon confirmed that the bus was from the church but would not give her name.
Workers vote to strike at Kroger\nCHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Grocery workers at Kroger stores in West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky voted to strike at midnight Monday. More than 2,000 members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Local 400 approved the strike.\nA Kroger spokesman said the company planned to close the stores at midnight Monday; only its pharmacies will stay open.\n"The proposal doesn't provide enough money to pay for our benefits," union president Jim Lowthers said. "They ought to be providing for the families that helped earn that money."\nThe union represents about 3,300 workers for the Cincinnati-based chain in 37 stores in West Virginia, five in Ohio and two in Kentucky.\nClerks at Kroger Co.'s Ralphs and Pavilions walked out late Saturday in Los Angeles, along with two other major supermarket chains. Replacement workers were hired there.
Kucinich announces candidacy\nCLEVELAND -- Democrat Dennis Kucinich, the liberal four-term congressman who has been steadfast in his opposition to the Iraq war, formally launched his long-shot bid for the White House Monday.\n"America cannot put its foot on the accelerator of war and advocate peace," said Kucinich, who envisions the creation of a Cabinet-level Department of Peace and devoted much of his speech to rail against the U.S.-led war.\nKucinich, who has been campaigning for months, made the announcement in his hometown of Cleveland, the first stop of a 12-state tour that will include Michigan, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Iowa.\nKucinich, who favors withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq, said that if elected president, he would look for nonviolent ways to solve the world's problems, including the Israeli-Palestinian tensions in the Middle East. The self-described urban populist also said he would order a study of reparations for blacks whose ancestors were slaves.
