Vermont is hoping to place fewer young adults in the adult criminal justice system using a first-in-the-nation law that will place some teenagers 18 and older in the juvenile justice system. A law signed by former Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin ...
Read More »Court finds fault with Ferguson district’s election method
An appeals court ruled Tuesday that a Missouri school district that includes students from Ferguson violated the federal Voting Rights Act in its method of electing board members. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided ...
Read More »Health official who urged abstinence says views have changed
The head of the nation’s top public-health agency once opposed condoms and needle-exchange programs as ways to stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. In one of his first media interviews since taking office, Dr. Robert Redfield Jr. said his ...
Read More »Water releases into Missouri River to ramp up
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it will more than double the amount of water released into the Missouri River from the river’s lower-most dam in the coming weeks. Releases from Gavins Point Dam, between Nebraska and South Dakota, ...
Read More »Trump White House sets records for staff turnover
President Donald Trump has seen staff turnover in excess of 37 percent for the calendar year ending June 30, an AP analysis of White House filings shows. According to the most recent filing, 141 staffers who worked for the president ...
Read More »Frederick Douglass’ July 4 speeches trace American history
More than a century after his death, Frederick Douglass and July 4 remain profoundly intertwined. Douglass was one of the greatest public speakers of the Civil War era, a conscience of the abolitionist movement and beyond and a popular choice ...
Read More »Want to start an Amazon delivery business? What to know
Amazon wants you to deliver its packages for them. The online retailer launched a new program last week that helps people in the United States start their own businesses delivering Amazon packages. The move gives Amazon another way to ship ...
Read More »Faster delivery of nearly everything is the next big thing
As shoppers increasingly demand that everything from hot meals and groceries to dresses, bedding and electronics be dropped off at their doorsteps, retailers are betting big on delivery services that will get them there faster. In the latest development, Amazon, ...
Read More »Republicans propose using sales-tax money for new tax cuts
A U.S. Supreme Court ruling making it easier to collect online sales taxes could yield billions of dollars for state and local governments — if they decide to keep it. Rather than spend the windfall on schools, prisons or other ...
Read More »$270,000 settlement approved in inmate wrongful-death suit
A federal judge has approved a $270,000 settlement of a wrongful-death lawsuit that alleged jailers in southeastern Missouri didn’t offer proper medical care for a woman during an overdose. Under the settlement signed last week, the city of Charleston will ...
Read More »California high court: Yelp can’t be ordered to remove posts
Online review site Yelp.com cannot be ordered to remove posts against a San Francisco law firm that a judge determined were defamatory, a divided California Supreme Court ruled Monday in a closely watched case that internet companies warned could be ...
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