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Chicago postal worker Kierra Coles mysteriously vanished five years ago. Police say it's an open but cold case. On Oct. 2, 2018, Chicago postal worker Kierra Coles vanished without a trace. The 26-year-old was about three months pregnant and over the moon to have her first baby, according to her mother, Karen Phillips. "She was so happy," Phillips told ABC News. "We just couldn't wait for her to experience the love between a mother and a child." But five years later, there's still no sign of Kierra Coles, and her mother is pushing for answers . "We're really not OK," Phillips said. Kierra Coles in an undated photo. National Missing and Unidentified Persons System "It's not like I found my daughter, I buried her, and we know where she is," she said. "I don't know if she's dead or alive, being harmed. ... We have to live through this every day." The Chicago Police Department classifies Coles' disap...

The United Auto Workers union says President Shawn Fain will update members on progress in contract talks with Detroit’s three automakers as General Motors increased its wage offer DETROIT -- United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain is expected to update members Friday afternoon on progress in contract talks with Detroit's three automakers as General Motors increased its offer to the union. In a prepared statement, GM said it made an offer Friday with “substantial movement in all key areas in an effort to reach a final agreement with the UAW and get our people back to work.” The company says the offer raises pay for most of the work force to $40.39 per hour, or about $84,000 per year by the end of a four-year contract. That's a 23% increase over the $32.32 per hour that most factory worker s make. Compounded annually it's 25%. The company also said it reinstated cost of living raises for many employees in the first year of the contract, boosting the pay increase to over 3...

Authorities say an airline ground crew worker was pulled into the engine of a plane during a fatal accident at an Alabama airport MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- An airline ground crew worker was pulled into the engine of a plane during a fatal accident at an Alabama airport, authorities said. The National Transportation Safety Board released the additional information about the Saturday accident at the Montgomery Regional Airport that claimed the life of an employee for a subsidiary of American Airlines. The agency said in a statement that the “aircraft was parked at the gate with the parking brake set when a ground support personnel was ingested into the engine.” The accident is under investigation and a preliminary report is expected in two or three weeks, the agency said. The accident involved an Embraer 170 aircraft operated by regional carrier Envoy Air, a subsidiary of American Airlines. The flight was set to depart Montgomery for Dallas-Fort Worth before the accident , accor...