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Congress is racing toward a Friday deadline to renew the law that pays for national transportation programs, and lobbyists trying to shape the legislation are in a frenzy. Among the issues: the length of trucks allowed on roads, whether recalled ...

Nearly 3,000 crimes have gone “essentially unpunished” in the six months since Greene County’s sheriff said he would no longer accept Springfield municipal prisoners at the county jail, according to a city report to Springfield City Council members. Springfield city ...

A recent groundswell of protests on college campuses over race, sexual misconduct and other social issues has some civil libertarians worried that the prized principle of free speech could be sacrificed in the rush to address legitimate student grievances. The ...

He’s the player daily fantasy sports fans across the country are suddenly watching: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, who ordered industry giants DraftKings and FanDuel this past week to stop accepting play from New Yorkers, saying their business amounts ...

The criticism was blunt: Blacks at the University of Missouri are harassed and threatened, the university has too few African-American faculty members, the administration doesn’t seem to care, and all of that needs to change. A list of grievances issued ...

Marriott International is buying rival hotel chain Starwood for $12.2 billion in a deal that will secure its position as the world’s largest hotelier. The stock-and-cash deal, if completed, will add 50 percent more rooms to Marriott’s portfolio and give ...

Even though the state Supreme Court recently upheld a death sentence for the first time under the state’s 1994 capital punishment law, Kansas isn’t likely to see executions anytime soon or a shift in how the justices handle capital murder cases. ...

President Barack Obama’s quest to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, perhaps by moving some detainees to the United States, has fostered an unusual alliance between his congressional critics and liberal-leaning advocacy groups that say changing the detention facility’s ...

The Supreme Court is taking on its first abortion case in eight years, a dispute over state regulation of abortion clinics. The justices said Friday they will hear arguments over a Texas law that would leave about 10 abortion clinics ...

When school officials in the rural Colorado community of Canon City learned local high-schoolers were collecting naked photos of one another, they had no choice but to notify the police and hand over hundreds of intimate images to law enforcement. ...

It’s not always the slurs and the other out-and-out acts of racism. It’s the casual, everyday slights and insensitivities. Sheryce Holloway is tired of white people at Virginia Commonwealth University asking if they can touch her hair or if she ...