Rising premiums and shaken faith among insurers have cast a cloud over sign-up season for President Barack Obama’s health care law, and now it’s crunch time again. Tuesday is the deadline for millions of uninsured procrastinators to sign up in ...
Read More »Freed Kansas inmate faces challenge getting compensated
After serving more than 15 years for a crime his brother admitted to in a suicide note last month, Floyd Bledsoe had little more than the flannel shirt and jeans he wore when a Kansas judge freed him Tuesday. But ...
Read More »Missouri bill would prevent abortion for Down syndrome
A Missouri state senator is proposing a bill that would prevent abortions solely because a test indicated the baby has or could develop Down syndrome. The bill, pre-filed by Sen. David Sater, R-Cassville, also would require doctors who perform abortions ...
Read More »Trump’s idea of a Muslim ban has legal experts divided
There’s no legal or historical precedent for closing U.S. borders to the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims, but neither is there any Supreme Court case that clearly prevents a president or Congress from doing so. Legal experts are divided over how the ...
Read More »5 months after Chattanooga, feds quiet on any terror links
It took about two days for the FBI to announce it was investigating the Dec. 2 attack that killed 14 in San Bernardino, California, as an act of terror. Nearly five months after the killing of five military personnel in ...
Read More »Missouri agency: Money can’t be used for Civil War monument
Missouri lawmakers have set aside $375,000 to make repairs to a Civil War monument at a Mississippi historic site, but state Department of Natural Resources officials say the money is coming from the wrong fund and can’t be used for ...
Read More »Only Missouri farmers remain in path of power line project
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, ...
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