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AFA-CWA has been fighting back against United Airline's effort to renege on its pledge to protect the retiree health benefits of 2,500 flight attendants who retired before July 1, 2003.

Speaking at the Alliance for Pubic Technology forum in Washington, D.C., CWA Executive Vice President Larry Cohen called for an end to the digital divide between rich and poor by changing public policy to encourage telecom, cable and wireless companies to invest in the rapid deployment of broadband,

Wallace Kimball, a retired CWA representative in District 9, died March 1 of cancer at a hospital near his home in Roseville, Calif. He was 73.

"He loved his union and his travels and his friends. He was a good man," said his wife, Edith.

Thomas F. Kennedy, a former network coordinator and assistant to the president of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, died March 3 at his home in Burbank, Calif. Kennedy, who had undergone extensive treatment for cancer, was 73.

Watch any cop show on TV and you'll see crime scene technicians dusting door handles and coffee cups and no end of other items for fingerprints, one of the ultimate clues when it comes to solving a case.