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Grant County primary turnout slips from 2022 levels as officials look ahead to November election
EPHRATA — Grant County's voter turnout in the 2026 primary election finished at nearly 34%, a figure county electi…
Governor asks California county to reimpose stay-at-home
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday urged an agricultural Southern California county to reimpose stay-home orders amid a surge in positive coronavirus tests there as officials in several counties also …
N.C. governor signs bill giving $350 bonuses to teachers
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has signed into law a K-12 educator pay bill that he says still fails to give what teachers and school staff need.
Gov. Lujan Grisham grants clemency for 19 people
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has granted clemency for 19 people convicted of crimes in the state, the governor’s office announced Friday.
Louisiana front-line workers may soon see $250 'hazard pay'
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Thousands of Louisiana's front-line employees who worked at grocery stores, drove buses and manned health care facilities in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak appear on track to rec…
Bill proposes $50M to expand broadband access for students
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Legislation in the Mississippi House proposes using $50 million of the state's federal coronavirus relief funding to improve broadband access for students in underserved areas during the pande…
Montana GOP, committees violated campaign finance laws
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana Republican Party and two minor party qualification committees violated state campaign finance laws in a successful effort to qualify the Green Party of Montana for the primary ballo…
Statisticians join criticism against Census Bureau hires
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The world's largest statisticians group added to a chorus of criticism against the hiring this week of two men to top positions at the U.S. Census Bureau, saying their appointments conflict wit…
Virus response, reopen fights mark N.C. legislative session
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina lawmakers finished most of their work for the year early Friday, setting another Medicaid overhaul date, funding a monument to honor African Americans and attempting to reopen bu…
After waves of virus deaths, care homes face legal reckoning
PARIS (AP) — The muffled, gagging sounds in the background of the phone call filled Monette Hayoun with dread.
Kansas governor, GOP scrap again over COVID-19 budget plan
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' Democratic governor is locked in a new partisan dispute with the Republican-controlled Legislature over her plan to largely paper over a massive budget shortfall tied to the coronavirus …
House approves bill to make District of Columbia the 51st state; measure faces opposition in GOP-controlled Senate
WASHINGTON (AP) — House approves bill to make District of Columbia the 51st state; measure faces opposition in GOP-controlled Senate.
House adopts bill to make DC 51st state; Senate GOP opposes
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic-controlled House approved a bill Friday to make the District of Columbia the 51st state, saying Congress has both the moral obligation and constitutional authority to ensure that th…
Sen. Johnson says all Wisconsin schools should open in fall
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Friday that
Putin, Macron discuss closer cooperation in video call
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed international crises during a video call Friday and vowed to cooperate more closely to tackle global challenges.
Pelosi pushes Senate with House passage of George Floyd bill
WASHINGTON (AP) — Passage of the House Democrats' far-reaching police overhaul bill returned attention to the Senate on Friday, as the divided Congress struggles to address the