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Updated 20 hours, 31 minutes ago

Homesley, Falstad share plans for growing county, auditors office

EPHRATA — As Grant County continues to grow, the county auditor's office is tasked with keeping pace with increasi…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Ducey appoints attorney, a former aide, to Board of Regents

PHOENIX (AP) —

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
AP VoteCast: Michigan voters say health care is top issue

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in Michigan’s Democratic primary ranked health care as the most important issue facing the country, well above climate change, the economy, race relations, foreign policy and many other soc…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
New Hampshire House grapples with coronavirus concerns

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Concerns over the coronavirus outbreak are playing out in the New Hampshire House, where at least one member is in self-quarantine and the chamber is being repeatedly sanitized.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Bernie Sanders to deliver 'campaign update' at 1 p.m. after disappointing primary results on Tuesday

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders to deliver 'campaign update' at 1 p.m. after disappointing primary results on Tuesday.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Michelle Obama rally canceled due to coronavirus concerns

DETROIT (AP) — A voter participation rally in Detroit that was to feature former first lady Michelle Obama was canceled Wednesday because of concerns over the new coronavirus.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
AP sources: Feds wiretap former DEA supervisor in leak probe

MIAMI (AP) — Federal investigators took the unusual step of wiretapping a retired supervisor in the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Miami office as part of an inquiry into whether sensitive case information …

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Jack Buechner, a former GOP congressman from Missouri, dies

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jack Buechner, a suburban St. Louis Republican who served for four years in the U.S. House, has died. He was 79.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Speaker Pelosi to unveil coronavirus aid package for workers

WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi is moving swiftly toward House passage of a coronavirus aid package possibly this week as Congress rebuffs President Donald Trump's

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
3 New Hampshire lawmakers quarantined over virus concerns

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Three New Hampshire lawmakers missed Wednesday's House session because they are quarantined over possible exposure to the new coronavirus.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Oglala Sioux Tribe approves medical, recreational marijuana

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — Members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe passed a referendum to legalize medical and recreational marijuana on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, according to preliminary results from the trib…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Family of man convicted of Lockerbie bombing can appeal

LONDON (AP) — Scotland's criminal appeals body said Wednesday that the family of a Libyan man jailed for the 1988 bombing of an American airliner over the town of Lockerbie can launch a posthumous appeal against hi…

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Democrats buoyed by high turnout in Michigan primary

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan Democrats are hoping the record turnout in the state's presidential primary portends well for their efforts to defeat President Donald Trump in November.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
With primary concession, Holley wins Democratic Lt Gov nod

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina voters are poised to make history in November electing an African American as lieutenant governor for the first time now that a legislator won the Democratic nomination.

Updated 6 years, 6 months ago
Bosnia police move hundreds of migrants to a refugee camp

SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnian police on Wednesday moved hundreds of migrants, who have been sleeping rough in a central town, to a refugee center near Sarajevo.