Same-sex couple cheers gay marriage ruling in Kentucky
By CLAIRE GALOFARO and ADAM BEAM April Miller and Karen Roberts hugged as the news flashed across their television screen, and their hug turned into a brief slow dance across…
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Prosecutor: Ex-Subway pitchman paid kids for sex on NY trips
Longtime Subway pitchman Jared Fogle capitalized on his business trips to New York City to arrange sexual encounters with minors in luxury hotels, federal prosecutors said in charging the Indiana…
Backpage ad site: Aider of traffickers, or way to stop them?
By MARTHA IRVINE Is the huge classified ad site an abettor of sexual trafficking and exploitation, or a beacon of free expression? Does it generate crime, or help solve it?…
Police: Man shot near Ferguson protest critically injured
By JIM SALTER and JIM SUHR A man who opened fire on officers in Ferguson, Missouri, on the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death was critically wounded when the officers shot…
Judge, 93, peeved by incomplete housing discrimination case
By ED WHITE A Detroit-area community that targeted blacks by demolishing poor neighborhoods is scrambling to come up with money to finally end the case — 44 years after a…
BP to pay record $18.7 billion to states affected by spill
By KEVIN McGILL, REBECCA SANTANA and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN More than five years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history fouled beaches, coated seabirds in thick goo and threatened…
Colorado court: Workers can be fired for using pot off-duty
By KRISTEN WYATT Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it. In addition to Mountain Annie’s Cannabis, medical marijuana is the most common.…
HHS chief: Onus on Congress, states if health aid annulled
By ALAN FRAM It will be up to Congress and the states to respond should the Supreme Court annul federal subsidies that are a cornerstone of President Barack Obama’s health…