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A Christian group teaches public school students during the school day. Their footprint is growing

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by Isabella Volmert

5d ago

An Ohio-based Christian nonprofit that organizes off-campus Bible classes for public school students has taken off in Indiana since the state passed legislation forcing school districts to comply ..read more

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A new Nebraska law makes court diversion program available to veterans. Other states could follow

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by Margery A. Beck

6d ago

Those seeking to keep military veterans out of jails and prisons are shining a spotlight on a new Nebraska law that makes judicial diversion available to veterans statewide ..read more

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Florida and Kansas are accusing 2 people of forging signatures for petition drives

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by John Hanna and Margery A. Beck

1w ago

Florida and Kansas officials are accusing two petition circulators of forging voter signatures during campaigns to put an abortion rights measure to a vote in Florida and allow the No Labels party to put candidates on the Kansas ballot ..read more

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Nebraska funeral home discovers hospice patient was still alive hours after being declared dead

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by Josh Funk

1w ago

Authorities say a Nebraska funeral home discovered that a 74-year-old hospice patient who was declared dead by her nursing home was actually still alive ..read more

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Shock as woman pronounced dead is found breathing at funeral home

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by Rachel Sharp

1w ago

Two hours on from her apparent death, a funeral home worker noticed that 74-year-old Constance Glantz was still breathing ..read more

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With strawberries and goats, a ‘farmastery’ reaches out to its neighbors

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by Yonat Shimron

1w ago

A 23-acre farm located amid lush green meadows and stands of pine is where Elaine Heath, an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and a former dean of the Duke Divinity School, started a new monastic community known as the Church at Spring Forest ..read more

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Pete Davidson fans defend comedian for walking off stage in Omaha after ‘relentless heckling’

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by Kevin E G Perry

2w ago

‘It’s just absolutely absurd. You’re ruining it for the whole show,’ said one fan ..read more

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Storm-weary Texas battered again as powerful storm, strong winds kill 1, cause widespread damage

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by Lekan Oyekanmi and John Seewer

2w ago

Storm-weary Texas has been hammered again by powerful storms bearing forceful winds that left one person dead, collapsed homes under construction and uprooted trees ..read more

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More severe weather forecast in Midwest as Iowa residents clean up tornado damage

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by Hannah Fingerhut and Margery A. Beck

3w ago

Residents of the small city of Greenfield, Iowa, are working to clean up days after a destructive tornado ripped apart more than 100 homes in just one minute, took the lives of four residents and injured dozens more ..read more

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United Methodists scrap their anti-gay bans. A woman who defied them seeks reinstatement as pastor

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by David Crary,Holly Meyer and Peter Smith

1M ago

Twenty years ago, Beth Stroud was defrocked from her beloved job as a United Methodist pastor in Philadelphia ..read more

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