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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri's attorney general has dropped all charges against Ryan Ferguson, who was convicted 10 years ago of brutally beating and strangling well-regarded newspaper editor Kent Heitholt on a fateful 2001 Halloween night in Columbia, Mo. The state will not retry Ferguson.
Hawaii’s Senate on Tuesday passed same-sex marriage legislation in an historic ballot in the state where gays and lesbians couples first sought the right to wed more than 20 years ago.The bill, approved 19-4, heads to Gov.
The parents of an American man and his Filipina fiancée have been sending out emails to aid groups looking for the pair, filling out missing person forms and trying to do busy work to avoid thinking about the worst-case scenario.
An Occupy Wall Street spin-off group has bought up $14.7 million worth of Americans' personal medical debt and forgiven it over the last year as part of its Rolling Jubilee project, the group announced Monday.
A Transportation Security Administration officer who was shot and killed at Los Angeles International Airport was remembered Tuesday as a dedicated worker who greeted travelers and co-workers with a "warm smile.
AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and AFL-CIO Executive Vice President Tefere Gebre gave interviews this weekend with The Hill and Huffington Post, respectively. Here are four highlights from those interviews.
JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri — Missouri Attorney General has dropped all charges against Ryan Ferguson, who was convicted 10 years ago of brutally beating and strangling well-regarded newspaper editor, Kent Heitholt on a fateful 2001 Halloween night in Columbia, Missouri.
Hopper dredge crews at Weeks Marine in New Jersey and Navy tugboat captains in the Pacific Northwest have recently voted to join the Masters, Mates & Pilots (MM&P).
Boston prosecutors will tell Attorney General Eric Holder this week whether they think marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should face the death penalty.The feds disclosed the timetable during a status hearing Tuesday. The judge said he wants a final decision from Holder by Jan. 31.
What do AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, TV pundit Bill O'Reilly, comedian Stephen Colbert and dozens of other politicians, experts and entertainers have in common? They're all joining documentarian Ken Burns to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. Trumka, O'Reilly, Colbert, comedian Louis CK, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, journalist Gwen Ifill, R&B singer Usher, every living U.S. president and many others have recorded themselves reciting the address as part of the "Learn the Address" campaign to encourage Americans to record themselves reading or reciting the speech.
