Murray Wood: Drop in reading rates a sad trend to see
New data suggests people are spending less time reading for pleasure. Murray Wood says it's sad that people are drawn to...
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California reject bill to crackdown on how utilities spend customers' money
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California lawmakers on Monday rejected a proposal aimed at cracking down on how some of the nation's largest utilities spend customers' money. California's investor-owned ut...
Apr 22, 2024
Supreme Court denies request by Arizona candidates seeking to ban electronic vote tabulators
PHOENIX (AP) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to consider a request by Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kari Lake to ban the use of electronic vote-counting machines in Arizona. Lake and fo...
Apr 22, 2024
Biden marks Earth Day by going after GOP, announcing $7 billion in federal solar power grants
TRIANGLE, Virginia (AP) - President Joe Biden marked Earth Day by announcing $7 billion in federal grants for residential solar projects serving 900,000-plus households in low- and middle-income commu...
Apr 22, 2024
Supreme Court will decide whether Trump is immune from federal prosecution. Here's what's next
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is hearing arguments this week with profound legal and political consequences: whether former President Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a federal case ch...
Apr 22, 2024
Tennessee Gov. Lee admits defeat in school voucher push
GALLATIN, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee conceded defeat Monday in his push to enact universal school vouchers this year, acknowledging there was not a "path forward" after months of Republican ...
Apr 22, 2024
In race for his Senate seat, Joe Manchin endorses West Virginia Democratic Mayor Glenn Elliott
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Outgoing U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin endorsed the mayor of Wheeling on Monday in the Democratic primary race for his seat representing deep-red West Virginia, where Manchin is the o...
Apr 22, 2024
The Latest | Lawyers in Trump hush money case paint competing portraits of him in opening statements
NEW YORK (AP) - In opening statements in Donald Trump's historic hush money trial, prosecutors said Monday that the former president "orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt" the 2016 presidential e...
Apr 22, 2024
Local election workers fear threats to their safety as November nears. One group is trying to help
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - The group gathered inside the conference room, mostly women, fell silent as the audio recording began to play. The male voice, clearly agitated, railed against what he thou...
Apr 21, 2024
Local election workers fear threats to their safety as November nears. One group is trying to help
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - The group gathered inside the conference room, mostly women, fell silent as the audio recording began to play. The male voice, clearly agitated, railed against what he thou...
Apr 21, 2024
Trump tried to 'corrupt' the 2016 election, prosecutor alleges as hush money trial gets underway
NEW YORK (AP) - Donald Trump tried to illegally influence the 2016 presidential election by preventing damaging stories about his personal life from becoming public, a prosecutor told jurors Monday at...
Apr 21, 2024
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The Evan Bray Show - Friday, Sept. 19
Evan talks with Premier Moe about his trip to China and the current state of canola tariffs, Ray Wilgenbusch about the M...