COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Marco Rubio says he doesn’t support a military draft for women and “forcing them to be combat soldiers” – reversing his previous position. The Florida senator suggested during last week’s Republican presidential debate that he believed selective service should be open to men and women, and that women should have the…
GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) – A student says she was shocked to learn that two teens died in a shooting at her suburban Phoenix high school. Lanie Walter, a senior, said Friday that the shooting was heartbreaking because “everyone is so loving” at Independence High School. She says she heard ambulances on her way to the…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s K-12 public schools would get about a $76 million increase in basic funding under the budget proposed by a House panel. A House committee on Thursday scaled back a recommendation by Gov. Jay Nixon to increase funding by about $85 million. Recommendations from both Nixon and the House panel…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A film crew is turning the 2003 killing of a Columbia man into an episode for a true-crime cable TV series. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the crew began work this week on an episode about the 2003 killing of James Pruitt for the show “Snapped” on the Oxygen Network.…
