A $2.2 billion, 780-mile transmission line designed to carry wind power from the high plains of Kansas to eastern power grids has gotten approval from regulators in three of the four states where the line is planned, but Missouri farmers ...
Read More »Missouri Planned Parenthood denies abortion record request
A Missouri Planned Parenthood branch will not to comply with a subpoena to give abortion-related records to Republican state lawmakers, the women’s health group said Friday. In a letter provided to AP and sent to Senate President Pro Tem Ron ...
Read More »Clemency denied for man after someone else confesses
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner rejected posthumous clemency for an Illinois man imprisoned for the stabbing of an elderly woman, even though a serial killer confessed to the crime more than a decade after the inmate died. Grover Thompson died in ...
Read More »3 weeks in jail for man who disrupted gay marriage arguments
A protester who disrupted historic arguments over gay marriage at the U.S. Supreme Court was sentenced Thursday to 21 days in jail. Rives Miller Grogan, 50, of Mansfield, Texas, had previously pleaded guilty to illegally demonstrating inside the court. Lawyers were ...
Read More »Ex-Oklahoma cop’s rape conviction symbol of national problem
The teenager’s mother clapped her hands and screamed with joy as she watched an Oklahoma City jury convict a former police officer of raping her daughter and sexually assaulting seven other women. Minutes after 29-year-old Daniel Holtzclaw was found guilty, ...
Read More »Kansas case touches on high court’s power, judicial funding
Attorneys on both sides of a dispute over the Kansas Supreme Court’s power that threatens the judiciary’s entire budget conceded Thursday that legislators whose actions sparked the conflict also have some oversight of the courts. The high court heard arguments in ...
Read More »Officers on the beat see changes as tension rises on patrol
Police feel their job has changed after more than a year of high-profile deadly confrontations between police and unarmed black men in cities from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore. Officers on the beat said there is more tension on the streets. ...
Read More »GOP report: Administration misled Congress on Bergdahl swap
House Republicans are claiming in a new report that the Obama administration misled Congress about the effort to release five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the militant group for ...
Read More »Japanese cars do best in insurance industry safety rankings
Japanese brands dominate the insurance industry’s rankings of the safest vehicles for the 2016 model year. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety said Thursday that 48 vehicles earned its highest rating of “Top Safety Pick Plus.” That’s up from 33 ...
Read More »Obama to sign education law rewrite; power shift to states
With his signature Thursday, President Barack Obama is setting the nation’s public schools on a sweeping new course of accountability that will change the way teachers are evaluated and how the poorest performing schools are pushed to improve. Obama will ...
Read More »After California shooting, fears of Muslim harassment rise
A severed pig’s head was left outside a mosque in Philadelphia. An Islamic center in Florida was defaced. A Sikh temple in California was vandalized by someone who mistook it for a mosque and left graffiti that included a profane ...
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