Iowan sues after being fired for wearing Bible-verse shirts during Pride Month
The rainbow flag of the gay pride movement and the flag of the United States. (Photo by Getty Images) A Scott County man is suing his former employer for allegedly…
Louisville expanding an emergency mental health response service
The report recommends that states and health plans expand their behavioral health networks by raising reimbursement rates — “as they do for medical/surgical providers.” (Getty Images) LOUISVILLE — Kentucky’s largest…
Lamont tests positive for COVID while on vacation in Colorado
Gov. Ned Lamont tested positive Wednesday for COVID-19 while on a family vacation in Colorado, his office announced Thursday. “Yesterday afternoon, Gov. Lamont was feeling slightly under the weather and…
U.S. Supreme Court sends Idaho abortion case back down to lower courts
A protester at a Planned Parenthood Great Northwest rally in Boise, Idaho, holds up a sign about the EMTALA case on April 21, 2024. (Otto Kitsinger/Idaho Capital Sun) As expected…
Mass. high court dismisses challenges to MCAS ballot question info
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. (Photo by Jennifer Smith) The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday dismissed two challenges to the description of a ballot question eliminating the 10th-grade MCAS…
University governor ‘prepared to take away’ FAMU law, nursing, pharmacy programs
The Florida A&M University College of Law in Orlando, via FAMU Quality Journalism for Critical Times Fewer than half of Florida A&M University College of Law students passed the Florida…
Bills protecting sex trafficking victims, expanding the daycare workforce could soon be law
Sen. Nikki Setzler, D-West Columbia, gives his farewell speech Wednesday, June 26, 2024, from the Senate podium. The gallery for public seating was standing room only as Setzler reflected on…
13 states with Republican governors opt out of summer food program for kids
Students eat lunch at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in South Salt Lake, Utah, in March. Utah was among the 13 states that declined to participate in a federal program that…
CT smog problem gets no relief from Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday halted, at least temporarily, a Biden administration rule that would have helped moderate Connecticut’s longstanding summertime smog and other air quality problems. The rule…
Presidential election seen as climate turning point as CO2 hits record
BALTIMORE, MD – MARCH 09: Emissions spew from a large stack at the coal fired Brandon Shores Power Plant, on March 9, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. Last year the Environmental…