The founder of an Arizona pharmaceutical company was ordered to spend 5 1/2 years in prison Thursday for orchestrating a bribery and kickback scheme prosecutors said helped fuel the opioid...
January 23, 2020
South Carolina lawmakers are reopening the search for candidates for four regulator seats on the state's utility board after the initial search only turned up six qualified candidates. The Legislature's...
January 23, 2020
The numbers are in and U.S. agricultural officials say New Mexico marked a record year of pecan production in 2019 to lead the nation. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported...
January 23, 2020
A disabled student was sexually assaulted by a van driver because the North Carolina school system responsible for her transportation was negligent and systematically violated school policies, according to a...
January 23, 2020
A former human resources director from St. Louis was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for embezzling more than $1.8 million from her employer. Nicole Scott, 42, also must...
January 23, 2020
The Massachusetts Senate unveiled bills Thursday that Democratic leaders say will help dramatically reduce the state's greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades. The transitioning of cars, trucks and...
January 23, 2020
The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday vowed a legal challenge if South Dakota passes a law banning gender-change treatment for children under 16. The bill headed to the House...
January 23, 2020
Wheat for Mar. was up 2.75 cents at 5.8050 a bushel; Mar. corn gained 5 cents at 3.9375 a bushel, Mar. oats rose 3.25 cents at $3.1650 a bushel; while...
January 23, 2020
A woman who says she was raped by a Lyft driver in St. Louis has filed a lawsuit accusing the ride-sharing company of prioritizing profits over passenger safety. Cristen Giangarra's...
January 23, 2020
A contentious tax-overhaul in Utah will be repealed amid growing voter backlash to the plan that would raise taxes on food and groceries while cutting income tax, Republican legislative leaders...
January 23, 2020
Local governments would be prohibited from interfering with kids who want to set up lemonade stands under bills being considered in the Washington House and Senate. Republican state Rep. Luanne...
January 23, 2020
Lawmakers who write Georgia's budget are questioning Gov. Brian Kemp's decision pay for a teacher pay raise with budget cuts. Both Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Jack Hill and House Appropriations...
January 23, 2020
Freelance writers and newspaper carriers would be exempted from a broad new California labor law requiring that many be treated as employees rather than independent contractors, under legislation announced Thursday...
January 23, 2020
A Canadian judge said Thursday she will announce her decision at a later date after she ended the first phase of an extradition hearing that will decide whether a top...
January 23, 2020
Idaho's wine industry wouldn't have to store extra wine in neighboring states under proposed legislation that moved to the full House on Thursday. The House State Affairs Committee approved the...
January 23, 2020
Layoffs at Spirit AeroSystems spread Thursday to the airplane parts-maker's plants in Oklahoma amid the widening fallout in its home state of Kansas caused by the halt in production of...
January 23, 2020
Boise State University filed a legal complaint against the Mountain West Conference over a TV contract. Boise State claimed the Mountain West breached its contract with the school and “violated,...
January 23, 2020
A coastal Oregon county was struggling Thursday to get its computer and telephone systems running again after it was hit by a cyberattack. The attack on Tillamook County government has...
January 23, 2020
Wisconsin tax collections came in more than $818 million above projections made last summer, an increase reported Thursday that will fuel the push to make an election year tax cut....
January 23, 2020
New Jersey's unemployment rate ticked up to 3.5% from 3.4%, though the state added 6,500 jobs in December, according to new data released Thursday by the state Labor and Workforce...
January 23, 2020
Not into dating a ‘woke' partner? Don't think a lecture on your own toxic masculinity sounds like good pillow talk? Well that makes you “dangerous” and puts you in the...
January 23, 2020
A shootout in downtown Seattle during the evening commute that left a woman dead and a 9-year-old boy injured was the third violent incident this week in a part of...
January 23, 2020
Butte-Silver Bow County has agreed to sell the former NorthWestern Energy building in Butte to a media production company for $1. Commissioners had authorized the transfer of the five-building complex...
January 23, 2020
Connecticut lawmakers will revisit whether to allow recreational use of marijuana among people 21 and over in the new legislative session, but it remains questionable whether 2020 will be the...
January 23, 2020
North Carolina's chief lobbying group for teachers is seeking additional input from members before determining a response to the extended state budget stalemate, with a walkout among potential options, the...
January 23, 2020
Legislation in Florida to bar insurance companies from using home genetic testing kits in making underwriting decisions is headed to the House floor, after a panel on Thursday voted unanimously...
January 23, 2020
Idaho schools chief Sherri Ybarra on Thursday proposed a 5.3% hike in public school funding to just under $2 billion from the state's general fund. The Republican superintendent of public...
January 23, 2020
The gloves came off this week in the US as Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard announced she would sue Hillary Clinton for suggesting she was a 'Russian asset.' Clinton's fabulous...
January 23, 2020
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled to uphold a legal principle that allows drillers to drain oil and natural gas from outside their property lines. The court overturned a 2018...
January 23, 2020
North Dakota regulators signaled Thursday that the state would not impose conditions beyond those required by the federal government on a proposal to double the capacity of the Dakota Access...
January 23, 2020
A former Missouri prison worker who was born in Pakistan alleges in a lawsuit that she was frequently called a “terrorist” by her coworkers and was sometimes asked if she...
January 23, 2020
A bill to require that police officers assigned to Kentucky schools be armed won approval Thursday from the Senate Education Committee. The committee action, advancing the measure to the full...
January 23, 2020
Oregon schools raised the statewide high school graduation rate for the class of 2019 to 80% and slightly narrowed racial and economic inequities, according to figures made public early Thursday....
January 23, 2020
Supporters of an Arkansas law expanding the procedures optometrists can perform mounted a new legal challenge Thursday to prevent a referendum on the measure from appearing on November's ballot. Arkansans...
January 23, 2020
A New Mexico county is considering shutting down its juvenile detention center because of a decrease in the detention population, officials said. Santa Fe County is looking at the option...
January 23, 2020
After a heated tussle over semantics and the legal repercussions of the words “approval” versus “acknowledgment,” the Miami City Commission on Thursday voted unanimously to accept the Miami Affordable Housing...
January 23, 2020
Federal regulators have slapped former Wells Fargo Chief Executive John Stumpf with a $17.5 million fine for his role in the bank's sales practices scandal. Four other executives were also...
January 23, 2020
Jim Lehrer, co-host and later host of the nightly PBS "NewsHour" that for decades offered a thoughtful take on current events, has died, PBS said Thursday. He was 85. Lehner...
January 23, 2020
“Sopranos” actress Annabella Sciorra confronted Harvey Weinstein from the witness stand Thursday, telling a jury in a quivering voice that the burly Hollywood studio boss barged into her apartment in...
January 23, 2020
A black Air Force veteran who tried to deposit settlement checks from a discrimination lawsuit was rejected by his suburban Detroit bank, which suspected fraud and called police. After settling...
