DCYF pauses St. Mary’s Home expansion pending reorganization
Pictured is the entrance to St. Mary’s Home for Children in North Providence in April 2024. (Alexander Castro/Rhode Island Current) The Rhode Island Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF)…
Arkansas lawmakers seek audit into Board of Corrections’ hiring of outside counsel
Little Rock attorney Abtin Mehdizadegan responds to legislators’ questions about his contract with the Arkansas Board of Corrections during a Joint Performance Review Committee hearing on Thursday, April 4, 2024.…
ACLU urges six WV schools to review student policies that may violate First Amendment
First graders at Longstreth Elementary School pledge allegiance to the flag March 24, 2004 in Warminster, Pennsylvania. The ACLU-WV today issued a notice to six West Virginia schools that policies…
The Pa. GOP has rallied against statehood for Puerto Rico. Except when courting Latino voters.
Former governor of Puerto Rico Luis Fortuñoat the podium, alongside David McCormick, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, Berks County Commissioner Michael Rivera, and Pennsylvania Republican Party Vice Chairwoman…
DNR proposes new deer hunting restrictions for southwest Iowa
Six counties will likely get “buck only” restrictions for the first shotgun season in 2024. (Photo courtesy of National Park Service) State regulators are seeking to severely restrict the hunting…
U.S. Senate Republicans reject Democrats’ bill on IVF protections
U.S. Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic bill Thursday to bolster protections for in vitro fertilization. Getty Images WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats’ attempts to bolster reproductive rights failed again Thursday…
New fertilizer production plant opens in Boone
Landus President and CEO Matt Carstens, USDA Rural Development Administrator Betsy Dirksen Londrigan and others participate in the ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday. Photo by Jack O’Connor More than 100…
Sen. Baldwin meets with IVF patients to promote reproductive rights
Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin said during a Zoom press call that she “would much prefer that join us and join me in codifying Americans’ right to start a family on…
State grants go to four community colleges to support career academies
Four community colleges across Iowa will use state grants to launch and expand their career academies, serving high school students. (Photo by Kathie Obradovich/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Four community colleges will…
Frank Suarez named new CEO of CT Lottery
Frank Suarez, who oversees the lottery in Washington, D.C., was named Thursday as the president and chief executive of the Connecticut Lottery Corporation, a quasi-public agency that produces about $400…