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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 ...

  • Updated: 9:39 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
FILE - This June 29, 2011 file photo provided by the Oklahoma Department of Corrections shows James DeRosa. DeRosa is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, June 18, 2013 for the Oct. 2, 2000 murders of Curtis Plummer, 73, and Gloria Plummer, 70. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board voted last month against recommending that Gov. Mary Fallin commute DeRosa's death sentence to life in prison without parole. (AP Photo/Oklahoma Department of Corrections, File)

Oklahoma executes inmate for couple's 2000 deaths

Oklahoma executed a 36-year-old man on Tuesday for taking part in the brutal killing of a ranching couple 13 years ago. James Lewis DeRosa was killed by lethal injection at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester, becoming the state's second inmate executed this year. At a clemency hearing last month, ...

  • Updated: 9:35 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, right, and Majority Leader Scott Suder answer questions at a news conference prior to the Assembly debating the state budget on Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)

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 ...

  • Updated: 9:26 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
This undated photo released by the Department of Justice shows Daniel Brown. Authorities in Ohio have arrested three people, including Brown, on charges of enslaving a mentally disabled young mother and her daughter over a two-year period. Federal agents and Ashland police said Tuesday, June 18, 2013 the trio forced the woman to do housework, threatened her and the girl with violence and fed their pets better than the victims.(AP Photo/Department of Justice)

3 charged with enslaving disabled Ohio mom, child

A mentally disabled woman charged with shoplifting a candy bar asked to be jailed because three people "had been mean to her" — then went on to tell authorities about her time spent in unfathomably cruel servitude, along with her young daughter, at the hands of three people, authorities said ...

  • Updated: 9:19 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
House Judiciary Committee members Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., sponsor of the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, left, talks with Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, prior to the start of the committee's hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. The committee in the Republican-led House is preparing to cast its first votes on immigration this year, on a tough enforcement-focused measure that Democrats and immigrant groups are protesting loudly. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

CBO: Senate Immigration bill would help economy

Sweeping immigration legislation moving toward a vote in the Senate would boost the economy and reduce federal deficits, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, at the same time it would bestow legal status on an estimated 8 million immigrants living in the United States unlawfully. In an assessment that drew ...

  • Updated: 9:07 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz. watches a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. Republicans in the House of Representatives on Tuesday make their most concerted effort of the year to change U.S. abortion law with legislation that would ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

US House passes far-reaching anti-abortion bill

The U.S. House of Representatives passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats characterized as another example of what they see as Republicans' war on women. The legislation, sparked by the murder conviction of a Philadelphia late-term abortion ...

  • Updated: 8:42 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, at House Judiciary Committee hearing to discuss the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act. Republicans in the House of Representatives on Tuesday make their most concerted effort of the year to change U.S. abortion law with legislation that would ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

House passes far-reaching anti-abortion bill

The Republican-led House on Tuesday passed a far-reaching anti-abortion bill that conservatives saw as a milestone in their 40-year campaign against legalized abortion and Democrats characterized as yet another example of a GOP war on women. The legislation, sparked by the murder conviction of a Philadelphia late-term abortion provider, would ...

  • Updated: 8:38 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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Recall effort against Morse deemed sufficient

A recall petition against a Colorado lawmaker who supported gun rights was deemed sufficient Tuesday, setting up the first potential recall of a state lawmaker in Colorado history. Lawyers for Senate President John Morse, D-Colorado Springs, are challenging the recall effort. They argued that the petition was improperly worded and ...

  • Updated: 8:23 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013

New charges added in medical marijuana busts

Three people arrested in raids on medical marijuana dispensaries in Southern Oregon are facing new criminal charges of racketeering and money laundering. The Mail Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/14HNZ4Y )the three pleaded not guilty Monday in Jackson County Circuit Court in Medford on amended indictments stemming from May 23 raids on four ...

  • Updated: 8:22 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Ark. AG seeks to uphold verdict against J&J

Arkansas' attorney general filed a brief Tuesday backed by his counterparts in 35 other states asking the Arkansas Supreme Court to uphold a $1.2 billion fine levied against Johnson & Johnson and a subsidiary over the marketing of the antipsychotics drug Risperdal. Attorney General Dustin McDaniel called on the justices ...

  • Updated: 8:21 p.m. Tuesday, June 18, 2013
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