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Kentucky Senate approves expanding access to paid family leave

Mar. 28, 2024 19:28 PM EDT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A bipartisan bill aimed at expanding access to paid family leave won final passage Thursday as Kentucky's legislature shifted into overdrive before a two-week break. The Senate voted 36-0 to send the family leave legislation to Gov. Andy Beshear. ...

Mississippi Senate passes trimmed Medicaid expansion and sends bill back to the House

Mar. 28, 2024 18:41 PM EDT

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi lawmakers will try to negotiate on expanding Medicaid in one of the poorest states in the U.S. after the Senate voted Thursday for a vastly different plan than one proposed by the House. The upper chamber's proposal would insure fewer people and...

Lawmakers seek to prop up Delaware medical marijuana industry after legalizing recreational use

Mar. 28, 2024 18:37 PM EDT

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Senior citizens in Delaware will be able to get medical marijuana without a prescription or referral from a doctor under a bill heading to Democratic Gov. John Carney. Legislation approved by the state Senate on Thursday also eliminates a requirement that a...

Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry in hospice care after medical emergency

Mar. 28, 2024 17:57 PM EDT

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry, who announced last month he has been diagnosed with late-stage stomach cancer, is in hospice care after suffering a medical emergency, his family said Thursday. Henry, 72, experienced an emergency related to his cancer early...

US officials warn of increase in bacterial illnesses that can lead to meningitis and possibly death

Mar. 28, 2024 17:41 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are warning of an increase in rare bacterial illnesses than can lead to meningitis and possible death. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an alert to U.S. doctors on Thursday about an increase in cases of one type of invasive...

As Kansas nears gender care ban, students push university to advocate for trans youth

Mar. 28, 2024 15:56 PM EDT

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — With Kansas poised to ban gender-affirming care for minors, college students are trying to counter Republican efforts to roll back transgender rights by pushing the state's largest university to declare itself a haven for trans youth. The GOP-controlled...

US tuberculosis cases were at the highest level in a decade in 2023

Mar. 28, 2024 15:15 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 were the highest in a decade, according to a new government report. Forty states reported an increase in TB, and rates were up among all age groups, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. More than...

Dengue is sweeping through the Americas early this year

Mar. 28, 2024 15:14 PM EDT

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Dengue is surging across the Americas early this year from Puerto Rico to Brazil, with 3.5 million cases of the tropical disease reported so far, health officials said Thursday. That tally is three times the number of cases reported at this point last...

'Murder in progress': Police tried to spare attacker's life as they saved woman from assault

Mar. 28, 2024 14:54 PM EDT

COHASSET, Mass. (AP) — Detective Lt. Gregory Lennon glimpsed at the modest duplex from his patrol car while waiting for backup that was seconds behind. This was a wellbeing check, among the most common calls in this quiet seaside town near Boston, but Lennon knew better than to go in alone. ...

A veteran with dementia got lost going shopping. He died months after an officer body-slammed him

Mar. 28, 2024 14:48 PM EDT

When Carl Grant awoke from emergency surgery and couldn’t move, he apologized to family gathered around his hospital bed. In the fog of dementia, the U.S. Marine Corps veteran thought he’d been paralyzed in the Vietnam War. The truth: It was February 2020, he was 68, and a police...