Tag: State governments
Bill curbing governor’s emergency powers advances Senate
<p>INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Senate voted Monday to approve a proposal that would curb the governor’s authority under the state emergency powers law following...
Arkansas Senate OKs ban on treatments for transgender youth
<p>LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Senate on Monday approved banning gender confirming treatments for minors, sending the governor a restriction on transgender youth...
South Dakota governor kills transgender bill, but orders ban
<p>PIERRE, S.D. — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem on Monday killed a bill that would have banned transgender women and girls from female sports,...
Shooter at Kansas Jewish centers appeals death sentence
LIBERTY, Mo. — An avowed anti-Semite who shot three people to death at two suburban Kansas City Jewish sites in 2014 is asking the...
AP Exclusive: Pandemic means far fewer eyes on kids’ welfare
LANSFORD, Penn. — Ava Lerario lived in a home marked by both love and chaos, even before the walls of the pandemic started closing...
Man jailed for sabotage of German high-speed railway line
BERLIN — A German court on Monday convicted a man of attempted murder and gave him a nearly 10-year prison sentence for removing hundreds...
6 dead, 1 injured in small plane crash in northern Mexico
<p>MEXICO CITY — A small plane heading for Arizona crashed in the northern Mexico border state of Sonora on Saturday, killing six people and...
Merkel’s bloc dips in polls 6 months before German vote
<p>BERLIN — A leading figure in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Union bloc has warned that there’s a growing “mood for change” in Germany, as...
Many Brazilians disregard the pleas to stay at home
<p>RIO DE JANEIRO — Authorities in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro begged the population to stay home, but thousands of Brazilians are traveling...
6 dead, 1 injured in small plane crash in northern Mexico
MEXICO CITY — A small plane heading for Arizona crashed in the northern Mexico border state of Sonora on Saturday, killing six people and...