May 2, 2016 Kentucky clerk's office refuses to issue gay marriage license despite court order A Kentucky county clerk's office turned down a gay couple’s request to get a marriage license based on the clerk's deeply held Christian beliefs, despite a federal judge’s order to issue the licenses.
May 2, 2016 Veterans fight for Conn. city to replace tattered American flags They fought for their flag and now they’re fighting City Hall.
May 2, 2016 Most states waiving work requirements for food stamps, despite improving job market Most states still are waiving work requirements for those on food stamps, raising concerns that despite an improving job market the Obama administration is feeding government dependency -- and all at the expense of taxpayers.
May 2, 2016 Kentucky panel votes to keep Jefferson Davis statue in state Capitol A Kentucky commission will not remove a statue of Jefferson Davis from the state Capitol, saying the likeness of the Confederate president juxtaposes nicely with an imposing statue of fellow Kentucky native Abraham Lincoln as a testimony to the state's divisive history during and after the Civil War.
May 2, 2016 Oregon allowing 15-year-olds to get state-subsidized sex-change operations The list of things 15-year-olds are not legally allowed to do in Oregon is long. But, under a first-in-the-nation policy quietly enacted in January that many parents are only now finding out about, 15-year-olds are now allowed to get a sex-change operation.
May 2, 2016 Civil asset forfeiture in Tennessee allowed officer to take $6,000, audit says In Morristown, Tennessee, police seized cars and demanded cash, which a police sergeant allegedly kept for himself.
May 2, 2016 Oil and gas officials scramble after feds weigh new species protections Oil and gas producers in one of the most active drilling areas in the country have had to make concessions to not disturb species such as the lesser prairie chicken and the dunes sagebrush lizard.
May 2, 2016 Gulf states reach $18.7B settlement with BP over oil spill Officials in four Gulf Coast states on Thursday announced a $19 billion settlement with BP to resolve claims in connection with the devastating 2010 oil spill, ending years of litigation.
May 2, 2016 GOP lawmaker distracted by Facebook accidentally OKs Calif. budget A Republican lawmaker accidentally cast his party's first vote for the California budget in years because he was distracted by Facebook.
May 2, 2016 DC weighs gondola system to connect tony Georgetown with outside world City planners are now looking at installing a gondola system, a feature more commonly seen at ski resorts, to span the Potomac River and connect the upscale communities of Georgetown and Rosslyn.
