by Chris Butler | Feb 18, 2022
Members of a Fulton County grand jury have indicted a former top-ranking state official for allegedly and repeatedly lying that she was pregnant just so she could take advantage of the Family and Medical Leave Act. That woman, Robin Folsom, 43, previously directed...
by Eric Burk | Feb 18, 2022
CHESAPEAKE, Virginia – The day after celebrating his first major legislative win, Governor Glenn Youngkin is anticipating a bigger battle over the budget. On Thursday, he began touring Virginia to tout his tax reduction plans and enlist locals across the...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Feb 18, 2022
In Friday’s sentencing of former Brooklyn Center Police officer Kimberly Potter, prosecutors will ask the judge to sentence Potter to seven years in prison. Earlier this week, Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office filed a motion asking that Potter...
by Peter D'Abrosca | Feb 18, 2022
The Chairwoman of the Montgomery County School Board says she intends to keep her job after storming out of a meeting earlier this week and offering the position to the speaker at that meeting. “I have not resigned,” Sue Kass told The Virginia...
by Neil W. McCabe | Feb 18, 2022
The Special Forces warrant officer running to unseat renegade Washington Republican Representative Jaime Herrera Beutler in the 3rd Congressional District’s August 2 top-two jungle primary told The Star News Network he is fighting both Beutler and the...
by Bethany Bowman | Feb 18, 2022
After previously being featured in a Music Spotlight column, Australian singer/songwriter Jasmin Bade released her new single, “Rent,” and its accompanying lyric video today with The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. “Rent” provides a bittersweet twist on the...
by Aaron Gulbransen | Feb 18, 2022
Pro-life legislation pending before Tennessee’s General Assembly that would prohibit Local Education Associations (LEA) or public charter schools from doing business with abortion providers continues through the legislative process in the state House, where it has...
by Susan Berry, PhD | Feb 18, 2022
A school board in Pennsylvania has voted to pull a daily on-demand CNN affiliate’s news program from the district’s middle school classrooms. The Norwin school board voted Monday, by a vote of 5-4, to end mandatory streaming of daily news from CNN 10 to middle school...
by Grant Holcomb | Feb 18, 2022
The Florida House and Senate have each passed HB 5001, known as Florida’s budget entitled “General Appropriations Act.” The total amount in Florida’s budget for the 2022-2023 Fiscal Year is $105 billion in the House version, and $108 billion in the Senate...
by Star News Staff | Feb 18, 2022
by Thomas Catenacci The Biden administration missed another deadline to hold quarterly onshore oil drilling lease sales after a federal court ruled it was legally required to do so. The Department of the Interior (DOI) defied the June 2021 court ruling...
by The Center Square | Feb 18, 2022
by Tyler Arnold A court ordered that Loudoun County, Virginia Public Schools cannot enforce its mask mandate on students and will need to expunge students’ records if they had been punished for not wearing masks. Loudoun County schools had intended to end the...
by Star News Staff | Feb 18, 2022
by Ailan Evans Several major media outlets have run stories over the past few days on the identities of individuals funding the “Freedom Convoy,” including names of donors that leaked during a hack of crowdfunding site GiveSendGo. Hackers breached GiveSendGo...
by The Center Square | Feb 18, 2022
by Bethany Blankley U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, represented by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and the state of Texas are suing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, challenging the constitutionality of its requirement that people wear...
by Star News Staff | Feb 18, 2022
by Harry Wilmerding The Biden administration announced Wednesday it will cancel $415 million in student debt for nearly 16,000 borrowers who claim they were misled by for-profit colleges. The loans for almost 16,000 former students will be canceled under a...
by Star News Staff | Feb 18, 2022
by Laurel Duggan Blackstone Inc. bought out Preferred Apartment Communities and the 12,000 apartments it owned in the Southeast for $5.8 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. Blackstone is one the world’s largest commercial property owners, and it...
by The Center Square | Feb 18, 2022
by J.D. Davidson Allowing law enforcement officers to sue for injuries or false claims suffered during riots became closer to becoming law in Ohio. Democrats and other groups called the bill passed by the Ohio House an attack on free speech, however. House Bill...
by The Center Square | Feb 18, 2022
by Ted O’Neil The Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday announced it would retain sole authority to issue airworthiness certificates and perform any final inspections on Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner aircraft. Meanwhile, two members of Congress, including Rep....
by Star News Staff | Feb 18, 2022
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by Star News Staff | Feb 18, 2022
by Anthony Gockowski A Minneapolis man who allegedly attempted to rape a woman in a downtown bathroom was bailed out by the Minnesota Freedom Fund and arrested three days later when he was caught masturbating in front of children. According to Crime Watch...
by The Center Square | Feb 18, 2022
by J.D. Davidson The Ohio Redistricting Commission announced it will meet Thursday, the same day as a court-ordered deadline to submit its third effort at state legislative maps. The meeting comes as the two Democrats on the commission have spent the past two...
