Category Archives: World

PIERRE, S.D. - South Dakota legislators are weighing whether to let teachers decide how much skepticism to work into lessons on contentious scientific topics such as evolution and climate change. A Ho...

NORFOLK, Va. - A civil rights group and officials at Old Dominion University are condemning a racist video that was circulating online until YouTube removed it. The Virginian-Pilot reports (http://bit...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania school district has agreed to remove a granite Ten Commandments monument from outside a high school and pay $164,000 in legal fees to settle a federal lawsuit. The Fre...

NEW ORLEANS - The floods that inundated Louisiana in August also damaged rice harvested as seed for this year’s planting. Agriculture and Forestry Commissioner Mike Strain says he’s tempor...

ST. PAUL, Minn. - In statehouses across the country, lawmakers with loved ones who fell victim to drugs are leading the fight against the nation’s deadly opioid-abuse crisis, drawing on tragic p...

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey’s lieutenant governor has received a letter of resignation - from her husband. Kim Guadagno’s husband, Michael, is an appeals court judge. To collect his pension...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Missouri native who said he wanted to participate in a terrorist attack that would cause many deaths and injuries is charged with helping plan a Presidents Day attack on buses, tr...

MOORESVILLE, N.C. - Home improvement retailer Lowe’s has announced its second round of layoffs in just over a month, saying more than 500 full-time corporate employees companywide will lose thei...

LOS ANGELES - A man who destroyed Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been sentenced to three years of probation for vandalism. An attorney for James Otis says he pleaded no co...

PORTLAND, Ore. - The federal prosecutors who failed to convict Ammon Bundy returned to court Tuesday to try four lesser-known men who followed Bundy’s call to take a hard stand against the gover...