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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the St. Louis Election Board to make electronic machines available to the disabled for absentee voting. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports a lawsuit alleged that not making the technology available violated the Americans With Disabilities Act. U.S. District Judge Audrey Fleissig said Friday the temporary restraining…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — In West Virginia, the Democrat running for governor has defended the coal industry while decrying his party’s presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. In Vermont, the Republican nominee for governor declared his support for transgender bathroom rights and denounced GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. Those types of unconventional strategic calculations are helping…
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A woman running for a seat in the Missouri Legislature has accused a fellow Democratic candidate of raping her. Cora Faith Walker told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the attack happened the night of Aug. 26 or early the next morning when she went to meet Steven Roberts Jr. at a…
CHICAGO (AP) – Republican Mark Kirk has repeatedly criticized Democratic U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth’s service as director of the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs as he fights to keep his U.S. Senate seat. His latest attacks come in campaign ads that claim there was “shocking abuse” of veterans, manipulated wait lists and retaliation against “whistleblowers”…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Gov. Jay Nixon is pardoning 14 more people, who have completed their sentences for various crimes in Missouri. Nixon on Friday announced the pardons, which include clemency for a man sentenced to probation in 1987 for stealing in Boone County and who later achieved the rank of Commander in the…
CINCINNATI (AP) – A suburban Cincinnati school district has closed schools after a woman reported being grabbed around the neck by a male dressed as a clown who she said made a threat against students. Reading Community City School District officials referred to the threat in a Facebook posting announcing district schools would be closed…
NEW YORK (AP) – A first look at U.S. teens and young children who were infected with Zika suggests the virus typically causes at worst only a mild illness. Zika infection during pregnancy can cause severe brain-related birth defects. But the report seems to confirm health officials’ belief that infections that occur after birth in…