The presidential campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are both trying to prevent the release of videos that are critical to legal cases involving the candidates. Trump’s lawyers are intensifying efforts to stop the release of video of the ...
Read More »1 year after church shooting, much is the same in Charleston
The names of Confederate generals still adorn street signs in Charleston’s public housing projects, and a heroic waterfront statue dedicated to the Confederate Defenders of Charleston still faces Fort Sumter, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired. ...
Read More »Justices rule against VA in disabled vets contract dispute
The Department of Veterans Affairs failed to comply with a law aimed at increasing the number of federal contracts awarded to small businesses owned by disabled veterans, a unanimous Supreme Court ruled Thursday. The justices sided with Kingdomware Technologies Inc., ...
Read More »County commission demands treasurer repay money lost in scam
A western Missouri county commission is demanding that the county’s treasurer personally repay more than $20,000 of public funds lost in an email scam. A letter signed by three Platte County commissioners Tuesday also demands that Treasurer Rob Willard pay ...
Read More »Judge declines to rule in dispute over MLK Bible, Nobel
An ownership dispute over the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Nobel Peace Prize and traveling Bible is one step closer to trial. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney declined to rule Thursday in the dispute over the two items ...
Read More »Dem senator wages filibuster, claims progress on gun control
A Democratic senator who mourned the loss of 20 children in his home state of Connecticut waged a roughly 15-hour filibuster into the early hours Thursday, asserting as he yielded the floor that Republican leaders had committed to hold votes ...
Read More »Prison chief: Refusal to cool death row isn’t politics
Louisiana’s prisons chief said Wednesday that the state’s refusal to install air conditioning on death row isn’t politically motivated, even though a lawsuit over the facility’s dangerous heat levels has already cost taxpayers more than $1 million. Department of Corrections ...
Read More »Kansas moves to register those without citizenship proof
Kansas must begin registering thousands of eligible voters for federal elections who have not provided proof of citizenship under a federal court order that has complicated the state’s elections less than a month before early voting begins for its primary. ...
Read More »St. Louis agency seeks options for former Rams facility
With the Rams gone, the St. Louis Regional Convention and Sports Complex Authority is seeking to find a use for the team’s vacated practice facility in the suburb of Earth City. The authority has hired the Sansone Group as the ...
Read More »Report: New evidence of rising ‘Obamacare’ premiums
Premiums for popular low-cost medical plans under the federal health care law are expected to go up an average of 11 percent next year, said a study that reinforced reports of sharp increases around the country in election season. For ...
Read More »$1 million spent to avoid cooling Louisiana death row
The state of Louisiana’s refusal to install air conditioning on death row has already cost taxpayers more than $1 million in legal bills, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. The state could spend roughly the same money — ...
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