With the midterm congressional primaries about to go into full swing, the Department of Homeland Security is playing catch-up in helping to ensure that state election systems are secure against cybertampering by the Russians or others bent on mischief. The ...
Read More »Families hoping for justice in suit regarding 1968 mine disaster
Nearly half a century after an explosion tore through the Farmington No. 9 mine in West Virginia, the families of the 78 men who died there are still looking for justice. Many of the children of the lost miners are ...
Read More »Judge allows key testimony at Greitens’ trial
A woman involved in an extramarital affair with Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens will be allowed to testify at his felony invasion of privacy trial next week, a St. Louis judge ruled Monday. Circuit Judge Rex Burlison rejected claims from Greitens’ ...
Read More »Greitens’ attorneys renew request for bench trial
Attorneys for Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens are renewing a request to have a judge, not a jury, decide the felony invasion-of-privacy case against the embattled Republican governor. A court filing late Thursday marked the second time Greitens’ attorneys have asked ...
Read More »DNA match sought to Zodiac Killer after break in other case
Northern California detectives still trying to identify the infamous Zodiac Killer who targeted victims in the late 1960s and taunted investigators with letters say they hope to try the same DNA-tracing technology recently used to arrest a suspect in another ...
Read More »University reviewing grant funds for Greitens’ book
Washington University in St. Louis says it is looking into whether grant money was misused after a former political aide for embattled Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens said he got paid from grant funds to promote one of Greitens’ books as ...
Read More »AP: The who, what, when and how of impeaching a governor
Missouri lawmakers are to meet in a special session starting May 18 to consider whether to initiate impeachment proceedings against Republican Gov. Eric Greitens to try to remove him from office. That comes as Greitens faces felony charges in two ...
Read More »Lawsuit: Kansas City sold impounded cars, didn’t tell owner
A federal lawsuit alleges that Kansas City never notified a used car dealer before selling several of his vehicles. John Hinz filed the lawsuit against the city, the Police Department and the Board of Police Commissioners. The suit also alleges ...
Read More »US adds a modest 164,000 jobs; unemployment down to 3.9 pct.
U.S. employers stepped up hiring modestly in April, and the unemployment rate fell to 3.9 percent, evidence of the economy’s resilience amid the recent stock market chaos and anxieties about a possible trade war. Job growth amounted to a ...
Read More »At what point does saying ‘lynching’ trivialize the word?
R. Kelly says boycotting his music because of the sexual-abuse allegations against him amounts to a “public lynching.” Bill Cosby’s people say his conviction was a lynching, too. Kanye West, in trying to defend his inflammatory comments about slavery, has ...
Read More »Times a changin’? Why America is ripe for protest in 2018
She was the face of mass protest, although she long ago lost her faith in protesting. Then, last year, hundreds of thousands of women set out to march on Washington, and Jan Rose Kasmir knew she had to join them. ...
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