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Weeks after winning more Grammys, Willie Nelson is getting a new kind of honor: a university endowment in Texas.
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports March 23, 2023Gabe Morgan, sheriff of Newport News, Va., said it "reinforces what we always say, 'See something, say something,'" after two jail inmates escaped by fashionin…
March 23, 2023Nearly two weeks after a fall that left him with a concussion and a broken rib, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., spoke on the phone with at least…
by The Washington Post March 23, 2023TULSA, Okla. — Al Stone-Gebhardt worked hard in school to make sure he graduates in May, and he spent hundreds of dollars on commencement regalia, but he is fu…
by HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and SEAN MURPHY Associated Press March 22, 2023OKLAHOMA CITY -- A divided Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a portion of the state's near total ban on abortion, ruling women have a right to abort…
by The Associated Press March 22, 2023WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two new national monuments in the Southwest, insulating from development a half million acres in Nevada…
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports March 22, 2023WASHINGTON -- President Joe Biden welcomed a high-wattage collection of singers, authors, artists and humanitarians to the White House on Tuesday to present th…
by DARLENE SUPERVILLE and COLLEEN LONG The Associated Press March 22, 2023• Two-time Academy Award-winner Tom Hanks will be the principal speaker at Harvard's commencement in May, the university announced Tuesday. Hanks, 66, has appe…
by The Associated Press March 22, 2023NEW YORK -- Facing the possibility of criminal charges, Donald Trump waited it out in Florida on Tuesday as New York braced for disruptions that could follow a…
by ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL R. SISAK The Associated Press March 22, 2023WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday for a deaf student who sued his public school system for providing an inadequate education. The case …
by JESSICA GRESKO The Associated Press March 22, 2023DINWIDDIE, Va. -- A large group of sheriff's deputies and employees of a Virginia mental hospital pinned patient Irvo Otieno to the floor earlier this month un…
by DENISE LAVOIE and SARAH RANKIN The Associated Press March 22, 2023m Frank Hibbard, mayor of Clearwater, Fla., abruptly resigned during a tense budget meeting, explaining, "I'm not a quitter, but I'm not the right leader for t…
March 22, 2023ATLANTA -- A bill banning most gender-affirming surgeries and hormone replacement therapies in Georgia for transgender people under 18 is headed to Gov. Brian …
by Compiled by Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports March 22, 2023The Pentagon is speeding up its delivery of Abrams tanks to Ukraine, opting to send a refurbished older model that can be ready faster, with the aim of getting…
by The Associated Press March 21, 2023Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is trying to project calm after regional bank failures, saying the U.S. banking system is "sound" but additional rescue arrange…
by The Associated Press March 21, 2023