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People are ‘desperately willing’ to dump thousands of dollars on sham stem-cell injections

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press

Kristi Noem

Dog experts cry foul at Kristi Noem’s shocking description of killing her puppy: ‘I think she may have shot herself in the foot’

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press

Dusty Farr

Meet a Missouri dad who went from a ‘full-on bigot’ to fighting bathroom bans on behalf of his 16-year-old daughter: ‘When it was my child, it just flipped a switch’

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press

Executive Editor Sabine Martin, right, passes a drafted paper to Managing Editor Parker Jones in The Daily Iowan newsroom, Feb. 29, 2024, in Iowa City, Iowa. (Emily Nyberg/The Daily Iowan via AP)

Iowa college newspaper buys 2 struggling small town weeklies to stave off news deserts

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press

An open house sign sits outside a home in the 18000 block of Weston Place in Tustin, CA

Real estate agent commission rules are about to change, shifting costs between buyers and sellers

By Alex Veiga, Heather Hollingsworth, and others

2 millennial teachers were punished for posting adult content on OnlyFans. Are they victims of employment discrimination?

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press

Mount Rushmore

South Dakota bans flights within a half-mile of Mount Rushmore and tour operators are miserable: ‘I don’t know what we’ll be able to salvage’

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press

Parent with student

When will offices embrace the 4-day week? Hundreds of schools already have

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press

washes one of the Budweiser Clydesdales at Houston Polo Club before this weeks Clydesdale appearances Monday, March 31, 2014, in Houston.<br />
(James Nielsen/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Budweiser will no longer shorten the tails of its iconic Clydesdales after PETA complained that it amounted to ‘cruelty’

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press

FILE – Richard Evans, a teacher at Hyde Park Elementary School, helps a student sound out a word during a reading circle in class on Thursday, Oct. 20, 2022, in Niagara Falls, N.Y. Stuck with distance learning as they began grade school, the kids who are now finishing elementary school were the ones most disrupted by COVID, with alarming delays in their reading ability. (AP Photo/Joshua Bessex, File)

Big kids in elementary school need profound help after pandemic setbacks: ‘We’re past the point where we’re likely to see a quick rebound’

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press

Chris Groninger

Iowa weatherman quits after 18 years on TV because audience harassed him off the air for reporting on climate change

By Hannah Fingerhut, Heather Hollingsworth, and others

The mother of a student whose confidential sexual assault complaint was released online stands outside the Minneapolis Public Schools offices, Thursday, June 1, 2023, in Minneapolis. Ransomware gangs have been stealing confidential documents from schools and dumping them online. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Ransomware criminals who hit schools are publishing kids’ confidential documents online

By Frank Bajak, Heather Hollingsworth, and others

Conner Dowell

‘I have kids that legitimately cannot read’: Inside a Kansas school that was devastated by COVID lockdown

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press

Kristi Noem

‘Catastrophe’ on Rosebud Sioux Reservation in South Dakota as tribal leaders claim 6 deaths from snowstorm ‘could have been prevented’

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press

Max McCoy, the lone journalism professor at Emporia State University, poses for a photo in front of the school’s administration building Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023, in Emporia, Kan. McCoy was was one of 33 mostly tenured professors fired at the school using an emergency pandemic measure allowing universities to bypass regular policies covering terminations to balance budgets. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Professors’ tenure targeted by conservatives over race, gender, and sexuality teachings: ‘This is a purge’

By Heather Hollingsworth and The Associated Press