Hillary Clinton plans to release additional health records, after an abrupt departure from a 9/11 anniversary ceremony Sunday raised concerns about her fitness to serve as commander in chief. The questions about her health were compounded by the nearly eight ...
Read More »2nd try at jury selection to start in Georgia hot car death
A second attempt at jury selection will begin in the trial of a metro Atlanta man charged with murder after his toddler son died in the back seat of a hot SUV. Proceedings are scheduled to begin Monday in coastal ...
Read More »New York state extends deadline for Sept. 11 health claims
New York state has reopened the window for workers and volunteers seeking lost wages and medical benefits from their involvement in the rescue, recovery and cleanup at the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. A law ...
Read More »Russian influence feared in election hacks
Recent hacks of election data systems in at least two states have raised fear among lawmakers and intelligence officials that a foreign government is trying to seed doubt about — or even manipulate — the presidential race, renewing debate over ...
Read More »Missouri county ends deal to house freed Springfield inmates
A southwest Missouri county has decided to quit housing municipal inmates from Springfield because too many of them were becoming stranded in the tiny town where its jail is located. Miller County, which is more than 100 miles from Springfield, ...
Read More »ACLU suing Kansas City Public Schools for handcuffing boy
A second-grader who refused a teacher’s request to move to a different chair suffered emotional and physical pain when a school resource officer placed the 7-year-old in handcuffs, a lawsuit filed Thursday against Kansas City Public Schools alleges. The lawsuit, ...
Read More »Ex-officer can be disciplined for pointing gun at protesters
A state commission has ruled that a former police officer can be disciplined for pointing a semi-automatic rifle at Ferguson, Missouri, protesters more than two years ago. Raymond D. Albers was a lieutenant for St. Ann police. He was working ...
Read More »Wells Fargo fined $185 million for improper account openings
California and federal regulators fined Wells Fargo a combined $185 million on Thursday, alleging the bank’s employees illegally opened millions of unauthorized accounts for their customers in order to meet aggressive sales goals. The San Francisco-based bank will pay $100 ...
Read More »Why insurance denies your claim, but pays your neighbor’s
Tracey Stahl lost part of a leg to bone cancer last fall, and she has to wince through bouts of crippling pain from an ill-fitting artificial limb because of a strange health insurance limit: Her plan covers just one limb ...
Read More »Sotomayor calls job on high court blessing and curse
Serving on the U.S. Supreme Court has been both a blessing and a curse and reaching decisions is harder than she ever expected, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Thursday during a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The court’s first Hispanic ...
Read More »Ruling loosens ban on owning guns after minor convictions
A federal appeals court has ruled that some people convicted of comparatively minor state crimes should get a chance to legally own guns, issuing a divided decision that reshapes longstanding rules. The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday ...
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