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Supreme Court agrees to hear gay marriage issue The Supreme Court announced Friday it will decide this term a historic question about whether the Constitution requires same-sex couples be allowed to marry or whether states are free to limit marriage to its traditional definition as a union only between a man and a woman.  Read full article »

Holder limits seized-asset sharing process that split billions with local, state police

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday barred local and state police from using federal law to seize cash, cars and other property without proving that a crime occurred.Holder’s action represents the most sweeping check on police power to confiscate personal property since the seizures began three decades ago as part of the war on drugs.  Read full article »

Metro passenger fled smoke-filled train rather than wait for rescue

Jeffrey Todd was on his way home from work to meet his wife and family for dinner Monday evening.Just a little after 3 p.m., he sent his wife a text.“I’m at L’Enfant. Train is ARR, I’ll be there in 14 minutes. GRR not arrived in 3. See you in 17.”  Read full article »

Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty

For the first time in at least 50 years, a majority of U.S. public school students come from low-income families, according to a new analysis of 2013 federal data, a statistic that has profound implications for the nation.  Read full article »

Penn St. gets wins restored, Paterno again winningest coach

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Penn State’s football team is getting back 112 wins wiped out during the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal and the late Joe Paterno has been restored as the winningest coach in major college football history.  Read full article »

It’s official: 2014 was the hottest year in recorded history

It is official: According to both NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the year 2014 was the hottest ever measured, based on records going back to the year 1880.It now surpasses all past scorchers, including 1998, 2005, and 2010. Indeed, except for 1998, says NASA, the 10 hottest years recorded have all occurred since the year 2000.  Read full article »

Kentucky police: Teen ‘Bonnie and Clyde,’ wanted after a brazen crime spree, have been spotted in Florida

Cheyenne Phillips, 13, and her 18-year old boyfriend Dalton Hayes went missing two weeks ago. Police are now searching for the pair — who are considered to be dangerous — and they’ve been guided by a trail of criminal activity and surveillance video that stretches through at least four states.  Read full article »

CMS administrator Marilyn Tavenner is stepping down

Marilyn Tavenner, a key Obama administration health official overseeing the country's largest health insurance programs, announced Friday that she's resigning from her position as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services next month.  Read full article »