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FILE - A Tuesday, May 21, 2013 file photo, an aerial view shows Plaza Towers Elementary School, which was destroyed in Monday's tornado, in Moore, Okla. Unlike several others schools in the Oklahoma City area, Plaza Towers had no “safe room” in which students and teachers could huddle. The deaths of seven students at Plaza Towers highlights the patchwork of protection that exists at schools in tornado-prone parts of the central U.S. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

School storm protection is spotty in tornado zones

With its single-story design and cinder-block walls, Plaza Towers Elementary School may have seemed sturdy when it was built a couple of generations ago. But a powerful tornado revealed the building's lack of modern safety standards, destroying the school and killing seven students. Unlike several other schools in the Oklahoma ...

  • Updated: 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Tesla shows Model S to influence NC auto bill

North Carolina lawmakers and passersby stopped to take in a display of Tesla Motors' award-winning electric cars Wednesday as the company presses against a bill in the General Assembly that effectively outlaws Tesla's Internet-based sales model. The California automaker drew sporadic crowds around its Model S electric car outside the ...

  • Updated: 10:12 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Former Miss America latest to look at US Senate

Former Miss America Heather French Henry is the latest Democrat to consider challenging U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell in his re-election bid next year. French Henry said Wednesday that Democratic leaders "are reaching out to me to talk and discuss" the race. "I've agreed to listen," she said. "But ...

  • Updated: 9:42 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

NH auto dealers win protections from lawmakers

New Hampshire's auto dealers could be getting protections from lawmakers in their dealings with their manufacturers. The House voted 338-30 Wednesday to pass the Dealer Bill of Rights giving New Hampshire auto dealers greater leverage in agreements with manufacturers. The bill would limit mandatory facility upgrades to every 15 years. ...

  • Updated: 8:57 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Texas House remembers Sherman Hemsley

The Texas Legislature has honored actor Sherman Hemsley, the man best known for playing the role of George Jefferson on The Jeffersons. El Paso Rep. Joe Pickett offered a memorial resolution on Wednesday for a man he called a friend and a constituent. Hemsley spent the final years of his ...

  • Updated: 8:53 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Okla. lawmakers to take up tornado recovery bill

Oklahoma lawmakers are preparing to take up legislation to appropriate $45 million in emergency funds to help pay for recovery efforts following deadly tornadoes in central Oklahoma. Officials in the Oklahoma Senate say the chamber could take up a measure on Wednesday that would dip into the state's Rainy Day ...

  • Updated: 7:31 a.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Democratic candidate for Mayor of Pittsburgh, former Pennsylvania Auditor General Jack Wagner, left, greets supporters at a city voting poll in the Pennsylvania primary election on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Pittsburgh. Luke Ravenstahl, the incumbent mayor, is not seeking re-election. In heavily Democratic Pittsburgh, a city that hasn't elected a Republican mayor since the Great Depression, the new mayor is likely to be elected in this primary. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

Pa. primary results yield winners and losers

Harrisburg Mayor Linda Thompson lost the Democratic nomination for a second term Tuesday as challenger Eric Papenfuse emerged as the winner of a fiercely competitive primary contest. In other mayoral nomination contests, Democrats tapped veteran city Councilman William Peduto as their standard-bearer in Pittsburgh, city Tax Collector Bill Courtright as ...

  • Updated: 8:54 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Inslee signs undercover license law

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Tuesday signed into law a measure giving legislative approval to a state program that has already issued hundreds of fake driver's licenses and license plates to law enforcement and government agencies. The measure limits the distribution of the undercover licenses and plates to undercover or ...

  • Updated: 6:17 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Oregon Editorial Rdp

Editorials from Oregon newspapers Medford Mail Tribune, May 17, on shopping for health insurance. A funny thing happened on the way to health care reform: Insurance companies began to compete with each other, right out in the open. A comparison of premiums that health insurers propose to begin charging next ...

  • Updated: 4:21 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee prepares to sign an $8.7 billion state transportation budget, on Monday, May 20, 2013, in Olympia, Wash. Inslee vetoed an section that had $81 million in planning money set aside for replacing the bridge connecting Portland, Ore. and Vancouver, Wash., because of concerns that the state's $450 million share of the bridge's costs might not be funded by the Legislature. He says he's still hopeful that revenue will be approved during the current special legislative session. (AP Photo/Rachel La Corte)

Inslee signs $8.7 billion transportation budget

Gov. Jay Inslee signed off on an $8.7 billion transportation budget Monday that puts money toward maintaining state roadways and continues spending on existing big-ticket projects. But he vetoed some sections, including a proposal to spend $81 million planning a replacement bridge that would extend Interstate 5 over the Columbia ...

  • Updated: 7:28 p.m. Monday, May 20, 2013
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