Police losing battle to get drivers to put down their phones
By DENISE LAVOIE State police in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have been known to patrol in a tractor-trailer so they can sit up high and spot drivers texting behind the wheel. In…
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How sympathetic whites are helping to fuel racial change
By PHILIP MARCELO An attorney in Oregon is supporting political candidates who promise to address racial profiling in policing. In suburban Ohio, a mother says she and her friends will…
Court OKs trial for girl who texted boyfriend urging suicide
By DENISE LAVOIE A teenager who sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to take his own life and telling him to “get back in” a truck filled…
US water systems repeatedly exceed federal standard for lead
By RYAN J. FOLEY and MEGHAN HOYER This railroad town promotes its ties to Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan and the poet Carl Sandburg. But Galesburg’s long history also shows in…
Getting clean: Heroin addict goes through pioneering program
By PHILIP MARCELO Kylee Moriarty has experienced her share of ups and downs since deciding to kick her heroin habit this past summer. The 26-year-old’s journey started in early July…
Fed-up and angry supporters let Trump defy political gravity
By JILL COLVIN Donald Trump insults and exaggerates. He dismisses the need for public policy ideas, gets confused about world affairs and sometimes says things that flat out aren’t true.…
Hari Jones Do You Know Robert Purvis
Robert Purvis was a African-American abolitionist in the United States. He was born in Charleston, South Carolina, educated at Amherst College in Massachusetts, and lived most of his life in…
FBI: Boston man talked of a beheading, killing officers
By DENISE LAVOIE The family of a Boston man shot to death by terrorism investigators was shocked by allegations that he planned to kill police officers, and saw no signs…