Local governments

September 04, 2019 - 8:16 am

Trump administration announcing nearly $2B in opioid grants

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is awarding nearly $2 billion in grants to states and local governments to help fight the opioid crisis. Health and Human Services Alexander Azar says the grants come from money that President Donald Trump secured from Congress last year. Trump is...
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High school students wearing masks, deliver leaflets to support the school boycott, in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2019. Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said Tuesday she has never tendered her resignation to China over the anti-government protests that have roiled the city for three months. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
September 04, 2019 - 3:18 am

The Latest: Hong Kong leader withdraws extradition bill

HONG KONG (AP) — The Latest on protests in Hong Kong (all times local): 5:50 p.m. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam has announced the government will formally withdraw an extradition bill that has sparked months of demonstrations in the city, bowing to one of the protesters' demands. The bill...
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Pike Road schools Superintendent Chuck Ledbetter speaks as he surveys the lunchroom at Pike Road High School in Pike Road, Ala., Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. Carving out of new school districts in the South is increasingly dividing white students from their black and Latino peers, reinforcing segregation, according to a new study published Wednesday in AERA Open, a journal of the American Educational Research Association. (AP Photo/Jeff Amy)
September 03, 2019 - 11:18 pm

Study finds carving up school districts worsens segregation

PIKE ROAD, Ala. (AP) — Pike Road High School graduates its first senior class this school year, and leaders of this sprawling, semi-rural suburb of Alabama's capital city extol the young community's focus on education as one of its defining elements. "We are extremely proud of where we are," said...
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September 03, 2019 - 2:45 am

In California, a buzzy campaign idea gets a test run

STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang wants to give cash to every American each month. Susie Garza has never heard of Yang. But since February, she's been getting $500 a month from a nonprofit in Stockton, California, as part of an experiment that offers something...
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September 01, 2019 - 5:48 am

Ohio attorney general sues to stop upcoming opioid trials

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Upcoming trials seen as test cases for forcing drugmakers to pay for societal damage inflicted by the opioid epidemic should be delayed until Ohio's own lawsuits against the drugmakers can be heard, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost argued in a lawsuit. Yost, a Republican, said...
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August 30, 2019 - 10:52 pm

Taliban launch 'massive attack' on Afghan city of Kunduz

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban have launched a new attack on one of Afghanistan's largest cities, Kunduz, the government said Saturday, even as the insurgent group continued negotiations with the United States on ending America's longest war. The militants, who have demanded that all foreign...
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August 30, 2019 - 1:43 pm

Some states, towns skeptical over proposed opioid settlement

HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) — An offer from OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family to settle some 2,000 lawsuits over their contribution to the national opioid crisis is receiving growing pushback from state and local officials. They say the proposed deal doesn't include enough money...
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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2013 file photo shows OxyContin pills arranged for a photo at a pharmacy in Montpelier, Vt. State attorneys general and lawyers representing local governments said Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2019, they are in active negotiations with Purdue Pharma, maker of the prescription painkiller OxyContin, as they attempt to reach a landmark settlement over the nation's opioid crisis. (AP Photo/Toby Talbot, File)
August 29, 2019 - 11:22 am

Source: OxyContin maker seeks to resolve all lawsuits

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A settlement being pursued by the maker of OxyContin aims to resolve all claims against the company filed in both state and federal court. The proposal also provides a formula for dividing settlement money among states and local governments. A person familiar with the talks...
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FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2007 file photo, then Newark Mayor Cory Booker, answers a question during an interview in his office in Newark, N.J. Months after Cory Booker took office as mayor of Newark, N.J. in 2006, he enabled his law partner to take power at the nonprofit that supplied water to 500,000 state residents. During the ensuing seven years, allies of the two-term mayor wasted millions of dollars in public money at the Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation. Booker says he was unaware of the corruption, which ultimately destroyed the nonprofit created to protect one of Newark’s most valuable assets. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
August 29, 2019 - 10:16 am

Booker allies ruined NJ water agency in scandal on his watch

Months after Cory Booker took office as mayor of Newark, New Jersey, he cleared the way for his former campaign treasurer and law partner Elnardo Webster to wield influence at the nonprofit that supplied water to the city. Over the next seven years, Booker's allies wasted and stole millions of...
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A light rail train stops for passengers, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019 in Tempe, Ariz. The latest numbers on mail-in ballots are expected Monday after the weekend for Tuesday's special election weighing any future expansion to the light rail system in Phoenix, the nation's fifth largest city. (AP Photo/Matt York)
August 28, 2019 - 4:37 pm

Officials: Phoenix rail extension back on track after vote

PHOENIX (AP) — A fall groundbreaking for an extension of a light rail system in Phoenix is back on track after voters rejected a referendum that would have killed any future expansion in the nation's fifth-largest city, transit officials said Wednesday. "We have been on hold for several months...
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