December 20, 2015 Michigan attorney general confident Supreme Court will uphold affirmative action law Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette told Megyn Kelly Monday on "The Kelly File" a controversial voter-approved amendment ensures that “the only thing we are discriminating against in Michigan is discrimination itself.”
December 20, 2015 Food stamp debit cards working again after outage People in Ohio, Michigan and 15 other states found themselves temporarily unable to use their food stamp debit-style cards on Saturday, after a routine test of backup systems by vendor Xerox Corp. resulted in a system failure. Xerox announced late in the evening that access has been restored for users in the 17 states affected by the outage, hours after the first problems were reported.
December 20, 2015 Company will move if Colorado approves gun control Unnoticed amid dozens of tract homes in the Denver suburbs, a nondescript industrial building is suddenly in the middle of the gun control debate in Colorado.
December 20, 2015 Food stamp debit cards not working in 17 states People in Ohio, Michigan and 15 other states found themselves unable to use their food stamp debit-style cards on Saturday, after a routine check by vendor Xerox Corp. resulted in a system failure.
December 20, 2015 Statue of Liberty to reopen to public Sunday amid government slimdown The Statue of Liberty will reopen to the public Sunday after the state of New York agreed to shoulder the costs of running the site during the federal government shutdown.
December 20, 2015 Colorado farmers harvesting industrial hemp despite federal drug law Southeast Colorado farmer Ryan Loflin tried an illegal crop this year. He didn't hide it from neighbors, and he never feared law enforcement would come asking about it.
December 20, 2015 Snooping claims mount against Minnesota cops, government employees It may not rise to the level of the NSA surveillance scandal, but each week more cases alleging privacy breaches by police and government employees snooping into Minnesotans' personal driver license data without cause come to light and go to court.
December 20, 2015 New California law allows some nurses, midwives perform abortions The bill by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, would let nurse practitioners perform what are known as aspiration abortions during the first trimester. The method involves inserting a tube and using suction to terminate a pregnancy.
December 20, 2015 Illinois delayed in accepting concealed-carry permits The wait keeps getting longer for Illinois residents who want to carry a gun.
December 20, 2015 Colorado gun-rights advocates plan another recall effort Gun-rights advocates in Colorado have started gathering signatures in support of another recall effort against a Democratic state senator following two successful recalls of lawmakers over votes in support of gun control laws.
