California’s attorney general sued the Neptune Society this week, claiming the well-known company pocketed $100 million that it should have kept in reserve for those who signed up for its prepaid cremation service plans. As a result, many of the ...
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Read More »The government launched a new program Tuesday to provide an HIV prevention drug for free to people who need the protection but have no insurance to pay for it. Taking certain anti-HIV drugs every day dramatically reduces the chances that ...
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Read More »The Supreme Court is turning to gun rights for the first time in nearly a decade, even though those who brought the case, New York City gun owners, already have won changes to the regulation they challenged. The justices’ persistence ...
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A small town near the U.S.-Mexico border began cleaning up Monday, gripped by fear after the killing of 22 people in a ferocious weekend gunbattle between drug cartel members and security forces. A 72-year-old woman living near Villa Union’s city ...
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Read More »Four workers fired from Google last week are planning to file a federal labor complaint against the company, claiming it unfairly retaliated against them for organizing workers around social causes. The former employees said they are preparing to file unfair ...
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Read More »Missouri emergency management officials are buying a $200,000 machine that will simulate an earthquake to prepare residents for a big temblor in a region where one of the most powerful earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains occurred in the 1800s. ...
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Read More »President Donald Trump accused Argentina and Brazil of hurting American farmers through currency manipulation and said he’ll slap tariffs on their steel and aluminum imports to retaliate. Trump also called on America’s central bank to take action to prevent other ...
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Read More »Taylor and Ally Moreland were preparing dinner one night when they glanced into their living room and realized their 1-year-old son had disappeared. “Where’s Brody?” Ally asked. “I don’t know,” her husband replied. They looked in the living room; Brody ...
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Read More »The mad scramble between Thanksgiving and Christmas just got six days shorter. Black Friday once again kicked off the start of the holiday shopping season. But with six fewer days than last year, it will be the shortest season since ...
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Read More »Missouri became a national focal point for officer-involved shootings after Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson five years ago, yet only a small number of police agencies in the state submit data to an FBI program designed to track those shootings. ...
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Read More »An alarming string of deaths inside St. Louis County’s jail led to a slew of changes, and county leaders believe the changes are paying off. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that it has been nearly six months since 31-year-old Daniel ...
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