A federal grand jury in Wichita, Kansas returned an indictment charging a woman and a man from Kansas with drug trafficking crimes. According to court documents, Regan Viner, 29, and Abram Velo, 41, both of Wichita, are charged with one count of possession of methamphetamine with the intention to distribute and one count of possession […]
(Missouri Independent) – The U.S. House on Tuesday failed to override President Joe Biden’s veto, which means the administration’s regulation stays in place expanding which waters and wetlands can be regulated under the federal Clean Water Act. The House did not clear the two-thirds mark needed to overturn Biden’s veto of a resolution that would […]
Consumer groups are praising changes to proposed legislation needed to make sure California drivers can continue to get free computer upgrades to repair serious car safety issues remotely. One of the provisions of Assembly Bill 473 would forbid car manufacturers from competing with car dealers regarding sales or service. Rosemary Shahan, president, of Consumers for Auto Reliability […]
People with no formal health training may be able to spot signs of brain injury in domestic-violence survivors, using a set of tools called CARE, which stands for Connect, Acknowledge, Respond, and Evaluate. Severe intimate-partner violence is often targeted at the head and neck, and in the airways. Julianna Nemeth, assistant professor, college of public health, […]
(Missouri Independent) – President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he will direct his administration to allow undocumented people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to enroll in Medicaid or private insurance provided under the Affordable Care Act. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will issue a proposed rule on the policy […]
A man from California was sentenced to five years and 10 months in federal prison after he admitted to transporting 11 pounds of crystal methamphetamine to Fairview Heights, Illinois. Luis A. Aguilar-Caldera, 31, of Chula Vista, Calif., pled guilty to one count of manufacturing, distributing, dispensing, or possessing a controlled substance. After serving his prison […]
(Missouri Independent) – A federal judge in North Dakota on Wednesday blocked in 24 states the Biden administration’s newly effective definition of waters that can be regulated under the Clean Water Act. U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland, a George W. Bush appointee on “Retired” status in the North Dakota District, issued a preliminary injunction in a […]
(Missouri Independent) – The Biden administration is trying to enhance the federal law that guards patient privacy to further protect those who seek legal abortion care and other reproductive health care services. The announcement comes amid two major ongoing federal court cases dealing with access to the abortion pill and fears that the pill’s U.S. […]
(Missouri Independent) – Jason Nelson just wants to get as close to “fairly normalized business banking” as possible. But as the owner of Swade dispensaries and Sinse Cannabis cultivation, that’s much harder than it sounds. He’s a customer at Triad Bank in St. Louis, one of the few banks in Missouri willing to work with […]
Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England; Robert Fuller, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Michael J. Krol, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations […]
(Missouri Independent) – Barb Anderson, director of Haven House in Jeffersonville, Indiana, works with homeless people to place them into housing. It’s a job that has shown her firsthand the severe health issues facing unhoused people in southern Indiana, where many people live in tents in the woods and under bridges. She is currently working […]
(Missouri Independent) – U.S. Senate Democratic leaders vowed to defend reproductive rights and abortion access Saturday, less than a day after a federal judge in Texas ruled the federal government needs to pull the abortion pill off the market within a week. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, of New York, and Washington Sen. Patty Murray, […]
(Missouri Independent) – The Biden administration will advance a rule to make it more difficult for schools to exclude transgender youth athletes from competition based on their gender identity, a senior U.S. Education Department official told reporters Thursday. The proposed rule would prohibit blanket bans of transgender athletes competing in sports consistent with their gender […]
(Missouri Independent) – The U.S. Department of Justice launched an appeals process Friday that will likely put a landmark decision about access to medication abortion in front of the Supreme Court. The notice of appeal was filed less than three hours after a federal judge in Texas revoked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s two-decade-old approval […]
The region in central Kentucky where the Sisters of Loretto have resided for 200 years is often described as “holy land.” Now, more than 650 acres of that land surrounding their motherhouse will be protected and preserved permanently under the terms of a new conservation easement. The arrangement, signed Jan. 18 with the Bluegrass Land […]
Idaho is the first state in the nation to criminalize the act of helping people younger than age 18 get an abortion in another state. House Bill 242, which bans so-called “abortion trafficking,” was passed by lawmakers last week and signed by Gov. Brad Little on Wednesday. The law makes it illegal for anyone who […]
The leader of a large-scale drug trafficking organization was sentenced in a federal court in El Paso Thursday to life in prison. According to court documents, Jorge Sanchez Morales aka “Capulina,” 47, ran a drug trafficking organization, spanning from Mexico to El Paso and on to Atlanta, from 2002 to 2019. In the early 2000s, […]
(Missouri Independent) – Lawmakers in 11 states have either passed or introduced laws to roll back child labor laws — a push that’s come from industry trade organizations and mostly conservative legislators as businesses scramble for low-wage workers. In the past two years, those states have moved to extend working hours for children, eliminate work permit […]
(Missouri Independent) – President Joe Biden on Thursday vetoed a measure that would repeal a rule expanding which types of wetlands can be regulated under the Clean Water Act. Biden promised to veto the legislation that saw Democrats crossing party lines in both chambers to join Republicans in rolling back a rule that is unpopular […]
A federal grand jury returned an indictment charging a former federal correctional officer with one count of sexual abuse of an individual in federal custody. The indictment alleges that, between October 2021 and August 2022, Lenton Jerome Hatten, 54, of Tallahassee, Florida, engaged in sexual acts with an inmate while employed as a sports specialist […]
