By SIMON D. SCHUSTER/Bridge Michigan Bridge Michigan Three weeks ago, state Rep. Angela Rigas woke up to the sound of protesters chanting outside her west Michigan home. The group of several dozen activists were demanding the Caledonia Republican withdraw her sponsorship of a bill that ...

By COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press A motorist in western North Carolina escaped injury when the carcass of a cat crashed into the passenger side of her front windshield along a highway near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In a call to 911, the unidentified driver on U.S. Route 74 ...

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press A judge set bail Friday for an Indiana man accused of killing a house cleaner who showed up at his home by mistake at $25,000 and ordered him to surrender his passport. Prosecutors charged Curt Andersen of Whitestown, on Monday, with voluntary ...

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A group of public school students' parents and taxpayers has filed a lawsuit challenging Tennessee's new statewide school voucher program, saying that allocating nearly $150 million in state funding to help parents send their ...

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is meeting in private Friday with a key issue on its agenda — President Donald Trump 's birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are ...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Former Democratic U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan said Friday that he has decided not to run for Ohio governor next year, eliminating the most significant hurdle to the nomination for former state health director Dr. Amy Acton. Ryan, 52, ...