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Insurance rates spike after Florida lawmakers fail to address condo safety

4:29pm May 04, 2022

by Greg Allen

Florida's legislature adjourned without addressing condo safety following the collapse in Surfside in which 98 died. In the absence of state action, insurance companies are raising rates dramatically.

Help pollinators (and get a break from mowing your lawn) by joining 'no mow May'

4:29pm May 04, 2022

by Chuck Quirmbach

May is often the start of lawn-mowing season, but some cities are taking heed of bees' needs and asking homeowners to let clover, dandelions and other flowering plants grow in May.

A judge has ruled that Clarence Dixon, an Arizona prisoner convicted in the 1978 killing of a university student, is mentally fit to be put to death next week.

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A judge rules that an Arizona prisoner is psychologically fit to be executed

3:52pm May 04, 2022

by The Associated Press

Judge Robert Olson rejected an argument from defense lawyers that Clarence Dixon's psychological problems prevent him from rationally understanding why the state wants to end his life.

Then-Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Ala., on March 4, 2007. The church tops the 2022 list of the nation's most endangered historic places, according to the National Trust for Histor

A church at the heart of Selma's 1965 voting rights march is an endangered place

11:24am May 04, 2022

by The Associated Press

The Brown Chapel AME Church, the landmark church that launched a national voting rights movement in Selma, Ala., tops this year's list of the nation's most endangered historic places.

Hughes Van Ellis, 101, foreground left, and Lessie Benningfield Randle, 107, right, survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, outside a courtroom on Monday at the Tulsa County Courthouse, in Tulsa, Okla.

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A lawsuit by survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre can proceed, a judge rules

10:48am May 04, 2022

by The Associated Press

An Oklahoma judge has ruled that a lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre can proceed, bringing new hope for justice for three centenarian survivors of the deadly racist attack.

Oklahoma state Rep. Sean Roberts in 2014.

A lawmaker wanted to refer to himself as 'The Patriot' on an election ballot

10:17am May 04, 2022

by The Associated Press

The Oklahoma Election Board ruled Monday that state Rep. Sean Roberts can still run for Oklahoma Labor Commissioner, but he can't refer to himself by that nickname on the ballot.

News brief: Supreme Court abortion shift, Ohio primary, Mariupol steel plant

7:56am May 04, 2022

What the overturning of Roe v. Wade could mean for U.S. politics. The field is set for Ohio's U.S. Senate race in November. Some civilians and Ukrainian soldiers are still trapped in a steel plant.

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Advocates and lawmakers prepare for an end to legal abortion in much of the nation

7:56am May 04, 2022

If the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion on abortion remains unchanged, what are the nationwide implications? We hear how things might change in Mississippi and California.

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Kansas monolith will be returned to Native American tribe

7:56am May 04, 2022

by Frank Morris

A huge piece of quartzite in Lawrence, which has long stood as a memorial to the town's abolitionist founders, is being moved. It belongs to a Native American tribe.

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Employees at another Apple store are unionizing, this time in Maryland

6:20am May 04, 2022

by Ayana Archie

Apple retail employees in Towson have formed CORE, the Coalition of Organized Retail Employees. They sent a letter to Apple's CEO saying the majority of employees at the store support forming a union.