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On the same downtown block where Nashville police officers carried a young John Lewis by his hands and feet to a paddy wagon for daring to take a seat at a whites-only lunch counter decades ago, today’s fresh-faced police recruits ...

ConAgra is spinning off its frozen potatoes business in an ongoing effort to intensify its focus on key name brand foods. The company said Wednesday that it will split off leading brands such as Chef Boyardee and Healthy Choice into ...

Muslims around the U.S. are facing backlash following the deadly attacks in Paris, including vandalism to mosques and Islamic centers, hate-filled phone and online messages and threats of violence. Advocacy leaders say they have come to expect some anti-Muslim sentiment ...

Cars and trucks from the 2008 model year or older that were originally sold or registered in high humidity areas along the U.S. Gulf Coast are getting top priority for repairs as the government commences the massive Takata air bag ...

A Utah judge who had ordered a baby girl taken away from her lesbian foster mothers and placed in a heterosexual home removed himself from the case Monday as criticism turned into calls for his impeachment. Though Judge Scott Johansen ...

Southwestern Illinois is trying to one-up Missouri by offering more than double the amount of free land it will make available as the states compete for a federal spy agency’s new regional headquarters. Democratic U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin joined local ...

Governors across the U.S. have threatened to stop accepting Syrian refugees following last week’s attacks in Paris, even as experts counter they lack legal authority to block the relocations. Meanwhile, President Barack Obama, whose administration recently pledged to accept about ...

Former residents of the old mining town of Picher, Oklahoma, have reached a settlement with a Tulsa-based appraisal firm they say intentionally undervalued their property for a federal buyout. The Joplin Globe reports that a judge signed off on the ...

New Haven, Connecticut, is a model for the nation in improving relations between law enforcement and minority communities that have frayed following highly publicized violence by police, FBI Director James Comey said Monday. Comey and NAACP Chairman Roslyn Brock spoke ...

If the University of Missouri succeeds in meeting a student demand for a faculty that’s 10 percent black in two years, it will likely be alone among its peers. No state’s “flagship” public university campus had a black faculty population ...

A Missouri woman accused of locking her 10-year-old daughter inside a closet, where she often ate, slept and went to the bathroom, did not receive proper treatment for a mental disease, her attorney said Monday during opening statements in the ...