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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — President Barack Obama has declared an emergency exists in Missouri because of flooding. Obama signed the declaration on Saturday. It allows federal aid to be used to help state and local response efforts to storms that began Dec. 22 and flooding that continues. It also authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Amid concerns of a looming teacher shortage, public officials in San Francisco and other cities are looking at housing as a tool to prevent the exodus of young educators. School districts in high cost-of-living areas and rural communities that have long struggled to staff classrooms are considering buying or building rent-subsidized…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's campaign says it has raised nearly $20 million over the last three months. The large haul further cements Cruz's status as a serious contender for the nomination heading into the Iowa caucuses on February 1. Cruz's campaign says in a memo to supporters that he will…

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Donald Trump has a personal beef with one of the efforts aimed at protecting the environment - it's messing with his hair. The billionaire businessman turned Republican presidential candidate told supporters in South Carolina on Wednesday that he's not impressed by replacements for old aerosol hairsprays that contained ozone-eating chemicals called…

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Attorneys for the South Carolina church where nine parishioners were shot and killed in what police called a racially motivated attack have responded to a lawsuit seeking an accounting of millions of dollars in donations. The Post and Courier of Charleston reports that attorneys for Emanuel AME deny that the church…