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  • Mark TeixeiraPolitics

    Mark Teixeira, one of the last New York Yankees to win a World Series, wants to join Congress as a Republican from Texas

    By Andrew DeMillo and The Associated Press
  • Grant HardinLaw

    The ‘Devil in the Ozarks,’ former police chief turned convicted murderer, escaped from prison after monthslong planning using kitchen supplies

    By Andrew DeMillo and The Associated Press
  • Grant Hardin, the former police chief known as the "Devil in the Ozarks"Lifestyle

    A former police chief, sentenced to 30 years in prison for first-degree murder, escaped jail by wearing a disguise. Now police are searching caves and forests to find the ‘Devil in the Ozarks’

    By Jeff Martin, Andrew DeMillo, and others
  • U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr speaks during a Make Indiana Healthy Again initiative event in Indianapolis, Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)Politics

    RFK Jr., Indiana, and Arkansas want to control food and drink SNAP users can buy with their $6.20 a day

    By Jonel Aleccia, Andrew DeMillo, and others
  • The city of Hot Springs, a resort town known for its mineral-rich waters, promotes its 98-foot route as the World’s Shortest St. Patrick’s Day Parade.Lifestyle

    An Arkansas resort town is feuding over the title of world’s shortest St. Patrick’s Day parade

    By The Associated Press and Andrew DeMillo
  • FILE – Cashier Josh Jimenez rings up egg for sale at a grocery store on Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in Dallas. (AP Photo/LM Otero, File)Finance

    Only 9 states still tax groceries and with egg prices soaring several are trying to leave the club

    By Andrew DeMillo and The Associated Press
  • A kid playing with Legos on the floor with his momHealth

    Republicans consider slashing Medicaid—a move that could siphon billions from the health care coverage offered to the poorest Americans

    By Amanda Seitz, Andrew DeMillo, and others
  • A bunch of kids holding their cell phonesTech

    Banning phones in schools is now getting support from both red and blue states alike: ‘We have not done our job as grown-ups’

    By Andrew DeMillo and The Associated Press
  • Students put their mobile phones in their lockers after switching them offTech

    School cellphone bans are gaining popularity in both red and blue states—at least 8 already have them

    By Andrew DeMillo and The Associated Press
  • In this photo illustration a YouTube logo seen displayed on a smartphone.Tech

    Lawsuit accuses YouTube of harming youth mental health

    By Andrew DeMillo and The Associated Press
  • police cars parked outside schoolPolitics

    School phone bans under scrutiny after Georgia shooting and frantic texts—’I’m sorry I’m not the best daughter’

    By Andrew DeMillo and The Associated Press
  • A car is crushed by the fallen building that hosted the Gansevoort mural that was struck by a tornado, in Rome, N.Y., Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Much of the U.S. and Canada is cleaning up or still dealing with a new wave of severe storms that have caused deaths and damage this week from the Plains to New England. (John Clifford/The Daily Sentinel via AP)Environment

    Tornado in New York topples a bomber jet, rips off roofs and turns buildings into rubble

    By Andrew DeMillo, Ed White, and others
  • USA, Arkansas, Little Rock, city skyline from the Arkansas River, morningHealth

    Arkansas is suing pharmacy benefit managers Express Scripts and Optum, accusing them of fueling the state’s opioid crisis

    By Andrew DeMillo and The Associated Press
  • Oregon Gov. Tina KotekPolitics

    Oregon is about to say nevermind to its groundbreaking law that decriminalized drugs

    By Andrew DeMillo and The Associated Press
  • Patrick Howarth, left, global business manager, low carbon solutions for ExxonMobil, shakes hands with Sen. Mark Johnson, R-Little Rock, after an announcement of a new lithium extraction operations to start soon in south Arkansas, on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023, at the state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Exxon said by 2030 it expects to produce enough lithium to supply the manufacturing needs of more than 1 million electric vehicles. (Thomas Metthe/Arkansas Democrat-Gazette via AP)Tech

    Exxon Mobil is drilling in Arkansas—for lithium—and expects to produce the crucial EV battery material by 2027

    By Andrew DeMillo and The Associated Press