Oklahoma school board advances plan to require K-12 students to show immigration status when enrolling in public schools

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma school board advances plan to require K-12 students to show immigration status when enrolling in public schools.

California will spend $2.5 billion to help the Los Angeles area recover from wildfires

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will spend $2.5 billion to help the Los Angeles area recover from recent deadly wildfires under a relief package signed Thursday by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom. Newsom signed the laws after the state Legislature approved them with bipartisan...

North Carolina school board member gets prison time after obstruction, extortion convictions

SMITHFIELD, N.C. (AP) — A central North Carolina local school board member was sentenced to active prison time after being convicted of extortion and other crimes, with some related to the attempted blackmail of a congressional candidate. At the close of a trial Friday, jurors...

Feds' suit claims Pennsylvania city's 'at-large' election system is biased against Hispanic voters

The U.S. Justice Department wants a judge to declare that a Pennsylvania city's method of electing council members citywide instead of by districts has illegally diluted the political power of its growing Hispanic population, arguing in a lawsuit that Hazleton is violating the federal Voting Rights...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th US president, has died at 100

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who won the presidency in the wake of the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, endured humbling defeat after one tumultuous term and then redefined life after the White House as a global humanitarian, has died. He was 100 years old. The...

Becoming a resident of South Dakota is easy. Some say too easy

All you have to do to become a South Dakota resident is spend one night. Stay in a campground or hotel and then stop by one of the businesses that specialize in helping people become South Dakotans, and they’ll help you do the paperwork to gain residency in a state with no income...