Attorneys on both sides of a dispute over the Kansas Supreme Court’s power that threatens the judiciary’s entire budget conceded Thursday that legislators whose actions sparked the conflict also have some oversight of the courts. The high court heard arguments in ...
Read More »McCaskill donates $10K for sexual harassment resources
Missouri’s U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill said Thursday that she donated $10,000 to an advocacy group to help interns facing sexual harassment, an issue that drew national attention to the state Legislature after the resignations this year of two lawmakers accused ...
Read More »Officers on the beat see changes as tension rises on patrol
Police feel their job has changed after more than a year of high-profile deadly confrontations between police and unarmed black men in cities from Ferguson, Missouri, to Baltimore. Officers on the beat said there is more tension on the streets. ...
Read More »Missouri high court weighs sex abuse suit against Boy Scouts
A man who says he was sexually abused for years by his scoutmaster should be allowed to sue the Boy Scouts of America even though he missed a deadline to do so by years, the man’s attorney argued before the ...
Read More »GOP report: Administration misled Congress on Bergdahl swap
House Republicans are claiming in a new report that the Obama administration misled Congress about the effort to release five Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay for U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by the militant group for ...
Read More »Obama to sign education law rewrite; power shift to states
With his signature Thursday, President Barack Obama is setting the nation’s public schools on a sweeping new course of accountability that will change the way teachers are evaluated and how the poorest performing schools are pushed to improve. Obama will ...
Read More »After California shooting, fears of Muslim harassment rise
A severed pig’s head was left outside a mosque in Philadelphia. An Islamic center in Florida was defaced. A Sikh temple in California was vandalized by someone who mistook it for a mosque and left graffiti that included a profane ...
Read More »New rule: Truck drivers must electronically record hours
An estimated 3 million commercial truck and bus drivers must electronically record their hours behind the wheel under a new government rule aimed at enforcing regulations designed to prevent fatigue. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration plans to release the ...
Read More »VW staff began working on cheat in 2005 to crack US market
A small group of Volkswagen engineers began working as early as 2005 on emissions cheating software after they were unable to find a technical solution to U.S. emissions controls as the automaker pushed into the North American market, executives ...
Read More »More than half of US renters older than 40, study says
The majority of U.S. renters are now older than 40, a fundamental shift over the past decade that reflects the lasting damage of the housing crash and an aging population. This finding in a report released Wednesday by Harvard University’s ...
Read More »Quicken Loans denies rules book violated free-speech rights
Quicken Loans’ book of employee rules didn’t violate its workers’ free-speech rights because it was irrelevant to daily operations and was largely ignored by staffers, the mortgage giant said. Attorney Russell Linden told the administrative law judge hearing a case ...
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