WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s plan to transform America’s infrastructure includes $16 billion to plug old oil and gas wells and clean up abandoned mines. Hundreds of thousands of “orphaned” oil and gas wells and abandoned coal and hardrock mines pose serious safety hazards, while causing ongoing environmental damage. The administration sees the longstanding…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The nation’s latest mass shooting has occurred at a Southern California office building where four people were killed, including a child, and a woman was critically wounded. Police had no word on a possible motive for Wednesday’s violence in the city of Orange, southeast of Los Angeles. When police arrived at…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former Democratic state representative from St. Louis County has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for misusing campaign money for personal expenses. A federal judge in St. Louis on Wednesday also ordered 39-year-old Courtney Curtis to repay nearly $48,000. He pleaded guilty in November to three counts of wire…