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Group strives to improve the lives of single moms
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — When she handed her son the last pack of noodles in their kitchen, Betty Mayfield came to a realization — she needed help. In 2009, Mayfield was the single mother of a toddler, a full-time student at the University of...Tags: Environmental Issues, Authors, Conservation, Agriculture, Media Industry
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Planned Parenthood in Ind., Ky., to merge
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The statewide Planned Parenthood affiliates in Indiana and Kentucky will merge next month in a move aimed at expanding reproductive health care services offered by the nonprofit organization in both states. One goal...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Laws, Medical Procedures and Tests, Hospitals and Clinics, Criminal Laws
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Gay marriage vote may come to Michigan in 2016
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Gay rights advocates are eyeing a 2016 ballot drive to overturn Michigan's constitutional ban on gay marriage. Recent polls show a majority of Michigan voters now support legalizing same-sex marriage. Statewide gay rights...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Crime, Law and Justice, Minority Groups, Marriage, Justice and Rights
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US whites now losing majority in under-5 age group
WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, America's racial and ethnic minorities now make up about half of the under-5 age group, the government said Thursday. It's a historic shift that shows how young people are at the forefront of sweeping changes by...
Tags: Washington, DC, Human Interest, Colleges and Universities, Barack Obama, Rutgers University
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AP Interview: Snyder sidesteps gay marriage issue
MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. (AP) — Gov. Rick Snyder showed no inclination Thursday to take a high-profile stand on gay marriage, even as the push to allow same-sex unions gains momentum nationwide and the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to make key rulings...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, U.S. Supreme Court, Environmental Issues, Executive Branch, Elections
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Lawsuit in Ohio cancer cluster will take years
JOHN SEEWER,Associated PressTOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The wait for answers is far from over for parents who for years have lived with the worry of not knowing what's behind the mysterious cancers that have sickened dozens of children in a rural area of northern Ohio. Despite a...Tags: Leukemia, Crime, Law and Justice, Symptoms, Laws, Medical Procedures and Tests
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Families in Ohio cancer cluster suing Whirlpool
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Families whose children have been among dozens sickened in an Ohio cancer cluster for more than a decade are hopeful that they've come up with a cause. Environmental testing paid for by the families found a suspected cancer-...Tags: Environmental Politics, Environmental Issues, Medical Procedures and Tests, Companies and Corporations, Whirlpool Corp.
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Minn. governor to sign bill allowing gay marriage
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — With marriages to be available for Minnesota's gay couples starting Aug. 1, Duluth residents Gary Anderson and Gary Boelhower are getting ready to do something that seemed impossible when they started dating three years ago:...
Tags: Democratic Party, Mark Dayton, Same-Sex Marriage, Michele Bachmann, Executive Branch
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Indiana Statehouse ceremony honors late Gov. Bowen
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Gov. Mike Pence bowed his head in silence Wednesday during a solemn Statehouse memorial for former Gov. Otis "Doc" Bowen as an honor guard posted in the domed Rotunda kept watch over the late governor's official state portrait...
Tags: Human Interest, AIDS, Executive Branch, Civil and Public Service, Government
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Pilot program closes mental health gap in Elkhart, St. Joseph Co.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — More than two dozen Indiana children who might once have entered the court system as a way to receive mental health services are now receiving help through a pilot program. The Department of Child Services started the program...
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency, Medicaid, Mental Health, Health Insurance, Health
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A risk including gay partners in immigration bill?
WASHINGTON (AP) — Frustrated at being left out of an immigration overhaul, gay rights groups are pushing to adjust a bipartisan Senate bill to include gay couples. But Democrats are treading carefully, wary of adding another divisive issue that...Tags: Elections, Politics, White House, Personal Weapon Control, Immigration
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As Boston buries its dead, more evidence gathered
BOSTON (AP) — The Boston area held funerals for two more of its dead Tuesday — including an 8-year-old boy — as more details emerged from U.S. officials and family members about how the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects may have...
Tags: Richard Burr, Islam, U.S. Embassy, Boston Marathon Bombing (2013), Tamerlan Tsarnaev
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