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Immigrants beat ‘widow penalty’

Thai native Khamphee Kells and her family are having very happy holidays now that the U.S. government agreed to issue them green cards. Kells' and her two daughters' legal statuses were in limbo after Kells' husband died in a car accident before their petition with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services was processed

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School district sued over sale of buildings

The St. Louis Public School District is facing a lawsuit over its refusal to sell vacant school buildings to charter schools. The suit seeks the removal of deed restrictions placed on the sale of closed public school buildings by the Special Administrative Board of the Saint Louis Public School District. The deed restrictions prohibit buyers of closed SLPS buildings from reopening the building as a school for 100 years.

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