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Texas child welfare workers resign amid probe
The Texas child welfare agency under investigation for its mishandling of a toddler's death last year has disciplined two employees after discovering one of them had "an inappropriate relationship" with the child's father, an agency spokesman said Tuesday. Officials were tipped in May that the relationship between Thomas Klapheke and ...
Republicans negotiate changes to Wisconsin budget
Republicans privately negotiated a series of last-minute changes to the Wisconsin budget Tuesday designed to smooth its passage, including removing a cap on a popular tax credit program for disabled veterans and delaying the loosening of requirements for high-capacity wells. The changes, discussed among Republican legislative leaders in both the ...
Especially grim encephalitis toll feared in India
A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season in what officials worry could be the deadliest outbreak in nearly a decade. Encephalitis has killed at least 118 children so far this year and authorities fear the death toll ...
Chef describes kids' grief over Jackson's death
Michael Jackson's personal chef described for jurors the home lives of the children during the final months of the singer's life and their ongoing grief over their father's death nearly four years ago. Gone are the freewheeling days when the children, Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson played with their father ...
Judge dismisses petition seeking custody of child
A Missouri judge used a technicality Tuesday dismiss a former soldier's petition seeking custody and child support payments from a teenager he impregnated when she was 14 years old. The petition came in the guardianship and adoption case filed by the mother's parents, who were seeking to permanently block him ...
Minn. dad charged in death of baby left in minivan
A Minnesota man is charged with manslaughter in the death of his 5-month-old daughter, who was left for hours in a hot minivan last week, prosecutors said Tuesday. The Clay County Attorney's office charged Andrew Sandstrom, 24, with one count of second-degree manslaughter. Sandstrom will be summoned to appear in ...
Catholic religious order opens abuse files
A Roman Catholic religious order released an unusually candid report Tuesday outlining how its leaders failed for decades to stop sex abuse in its schools and other ministries. The Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph, which spans 10 Midwestern states, asked experts in clergy sex abuse to provide a full ...
Education Dept. offers more time to reach goals
States can ask for another year before being required to use student test results to decide whether to keep or fire teachers, Education Secretary Arne Duncan told school chiefs on Tuesday. Thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia have earned permission from the Education Department to ignore parts of the ...
Feds investigate child death on ND reservation
Federal authorities are investigating the death of a 3-year-old girl on the Spirit Lake Reservation in North Dakota. FBI spokesman Kyle Loven says that agency and the Bureau of Indian Affairs are looking into the "mysterious" death last Thursday. Authorities aren't releasing details, citing the ongoing investigation. The effectiveness of ...
Recent Kansas editorials
The Wichita Eagle, June 16 Failure to deliver at DMV Renewing a driver's license shouldn't take multiple attempts and a wait of three, four or five hours. That it does for many people in the Wichita area these days is a failure to deliver one of the most basic of ...
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