Monday, May 2, 2016

Judge: Ailing media mogul to testify in mental capacity case and other top stories.

  • Judge: Ailing media mogul to testify in mental capacity case

    FILE - In this April 22, 2013 file photo, Sumner Redstone arrives at the LA Premiere of “Pain and Gain” in New York. A judge ruled on Monday, May 2, 2016, that Sumner Redstone should give 30 minutes of videotaped, sworn testimony in a case about the ailing media mogul’s mental capacity that was filed by Redstone’s ex-girlfriend and longtime companion, Manuela Herzer. (Photo by Matt Sayles/Invision/AP, File) (Associated Press) By Anthony McCartney | AP May 2 at 8:15 PM LOS ANGELES — A jud..
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  • Detroit schools could close again Tuesday as teachers union urges members not to work

    Detroit schools could close again Tuesday as teachers union urges members not to work
    Detroit teachers march outside the district headquarters, Monday, May 2, 2016. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio) Detroit union leaders are calling on teachers not to report to work Tuesday and continue a sickout that forced the closure of nearly all of the city’s schools Monday. The Detroit Federation of Teachers is protesting the fact that — unless state lawmakers pass a bailout plan in the coming weeks — the city’s troubled school system may not be able to pay teachers over the summer. “We do not ..
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  • Snyder expects expanded Medicaid coverage in Flint next week

    Snyder expects expanded Medicaid coverage in Flint next week
    Gov. Rick Snyder fills up four one-gallon jugs with Flint water from a bar dispenser at Blackstone’s Pub & Grill on Monday, May 2, 2016 in downtown Flint, Mich. Snyder says he is drinking Flint water while at work and home. Snyder has requested some face-to-face time with President Obama during his May 4 visit to Flint to get a firsthand look at the city’s ongoing water crisis. (Jake May/The Flint Journal-MLive.com via AP) (Associated Press) By David Eggert | AP May 2 at 9:15 PM FLINT, M..
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  • Hillary Clinton Hears Wrath of Coal Supporters in West Virginia

    Hillary Clinton Hears Wrath of Coal Supporters in West Virginia
    PhotoProtesters outside of the Williamson Health and Wellness that Hillary Clinton visited on Monday in Williamson, W.V.Credit Ty Wright for The New York Times WILLIAMSON, W.Va. — Hillary Clinton came to campaign in coal country — and she had her feet held to the fire. As Mrs. Clinton stepped onto the sidewalk on Monday to tour a health and wellness center here, a crowd of protesters stood in the rain, many of them holding signs supporting the leading Republican candidate, Donald J. Trump, and ..
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  • Politics|Donald Trump's Foes Fear Indiana Primary Could Be Decisive Blow

    Politics|Donald Trump's Foes Fear Indiana Primary Could Be Decisive Blow
    Republican strategists opposed to Mr. Trump acknowledge that losing Indiana could break the back of the organized resistance to his candidacy and relegate Mr. Cruz to the role of a symbolic dissenter on the right. Mr. Trump has said that a victory in Indiana on Tuesday would effectively resolve the race in his favor. Photo Senator Ted Cruz of Texas with reporters in Osceola, Ind., on Monday. A loss in Indiana on Tuesday could seal the fate of his campaign. Credit Sam Hodgson for T..
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  • Did #WHCD roaster Larry Wilmore run into the Oscar-host paradox?

    Did #WHCD roaster Larry Wilmore run into the Oscar-host paradox?
    Let's put aside the question of whether Larry Wilmore  was funny.  The White House Correspondents Dinner roaster on Saturday night did land some trenchant lines, though he was not as funny as many past hosts, and maybe not nearly as funny as he thought he was.Let's also put aside whether the world needs another Larry Wilmore take, hot or otherwise. It doesn't. But we'll defy that lesson anyway, like that friend who says "not to sound disrespectful" as a cue that he's going to be just that. What..
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  • National Guardsman arrested after standoff at Maryland armory

    National Guardsman arrested after standoff at Maryland armory
    An unarmed soldier was arrested at a Maryland National Guard armory on Monday after he barricaded himself inside a building that housed a cache of small weapons, authorities said. The soldier surrendered without a struggle after negotiating with Baltimore County Police for more than two hours at the facility in Parkville, Maryland, according to a post on a department blog. The man, whom police did not identify by name, never gained access to weapons stored in a vault inside the building, polic..
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School District's 'Mental Health Month' Initiatives Designed to Increase Awareness .Joey Logano walks away from "hardest hit" at Talladega .
Louisville target Vital picks UConn .Bevin cuts Louisville indigent care .

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