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House passes far-reaching anti-abortion bill
The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats characterized as yet another example of a GOP war on women. The legislation, sparked by the murder conviction of a Philadelphia late-term abortion provider, would ...
New charges added in medical marijuana busts
Three people arrested in raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in Southern Oregon are facing new criminal charges of racketeering and money laundering. The Mail Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/14HNZ4Y )the three pleaded not guilty Monday in Jackson County Circuit Court in Medford on amended indictments stemming from May 23 raids on four ...
Ark. AG seeks to uphold verdict against J&J
Arkansas' attorney general filed a brief Tuesday backed by his counterparts in 35 other states asking the Arkansas Supreme Court to uphold a $1.2 billion fine levied against Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary over the marketing of the antipsychotics drug Risperdal. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel called on the justices ...
News from around Wisconsin at 5:28 a.m. CDT
Republicans negotiate changes to Wisconsin budget MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans privately negotiated a series of last-minute changes to the Wisconsin budget Tuesday designed to smooth its passage, including removing a cap on a popular tax credit program for disabled veterans and delaying the loosening of requirements for high-capacity wells. ...
N. Calif. teacher charged with classroom sex abuse
A decade after a conviction for possession of child pornography, a former elementary school teacher from Northern California has been charged with the classroom sexual abuse of a second-grade boy 15 years ago. The San Francisco Chronicle reports Tuesday (bit.ly/13RdPSY) that Alameda County prosecutors have charged 63-year-old Michael Schoop with ...
Mich. Senate doesn't vote on Medicaid expansion
The Michigan Senate adjourned Tuesday without voting to expand Medicaid eligibility to hundreds of thousands of low-income adults under the federal health care law, leaving the bill's future in doubt before lawmakers break for the summer. After meeting for nearly seven hours, the Republican-dominated chamber put off a vote until ...
Audit: Lawmakers need to define school readiness
State lawmakers must define "school readiness" and establish pre-school testing to better determine which children most need help and boost their chances for success, according to an audit of South Carolina First Steps that was released Tuesday. The Legislative Audit Council found that 14 years after the agency was created ...
Google asks FISA court to lift gag order
Google on Tuesday sharply challenged the federal government's gag order on its Internet surveillance program, citing what it described as a First Amendment right to divulge how many requests it receives from the government for data about its customers in the name of national security. The move came in a ...
Wis. DNR wants to increase wolf hunt limits
Hunters and trappers would be allowed to kill dozens more wolves during Wisconsin's second wolf hunt this fall, under new quotas released Tuesday by state wildlife officials. Department of Natural Resources officials say the new quotas will help shrink the state's burgeoning wolf population to what they think is its ...
Catholic religious order opens abuse files
A Roman Catholic religious order released an unusually candid report Tuesday outlining how its leaders failed for decades to stop sex abuse in its schools and other ministries. The Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph, which spans 10 Midwestern states, asked experts in clergy sex abuse to provide a full ...
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