Trump to shut down questionable charity

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he will dissolve his charitable foundation amid efforts to eliminate any conflicts of interest before he takes office next month. The revelation comes as the New York attorney general's office investigates the foundation following media reports that foundation spending went to benefit Trump's campaign.

Diane Dimond: Still No Justice for JonBenet Ramsey But New Look at Old Letters May Add Clues

All crime reporters have a story from their past they cannot shake, a case that either touched them on a profound personal level or remains mysteriously unsolved. This time of year, I think of a story I covered 20 years ago this week, which remains with me for both reasons: the Christmastime death of 6-year-old JonBent Ramsey in Boulder, Colo.

A wish list for next legislative session

With the 2016 election over and the jockeying well underway for position and power, we are being treated to various Kansas politicians - from the governor on down - determined to dampen our holiday spirits. In an effort to maintain some happiness and good humor in this season, it seems appropriate to send Santa a last minute wish list for the good people of Kansas.

Furniture store owner pleads guilty to 12 felony counts

After resolving what his attorney called "complicated financial issues," former Fleming Furniture owner Danny Kelley accepted a plea agreement Thursday in McCracken Circuit Court, pleading guilty to 12 felony theft charges. Kelley, 69, was initially charged with one count of theft by deception, under $10,000; nine counts of theft by failure to make required disposition of property, over $500 but less than $10,000; one count of theft by failure to make required disposition of property, over $10,000; and one count of theft of services.

Legal Loophole Lets Feds Delete Tons Of Official Records

A loophole in federal law allows Environmental Protection Agency employees and other federal workers get away with deleting millions of official records created using cellphone text messaging, according to government transparency experts. The Federal Records Act and EPA policy allow individual employees who create and receive cell phone text messages to decide whether a particular one constitutes a federal record before deleting or preserving it.

Why the white working class votes against itself

Maybe they believed any Big Government expansions would disproportionately go to the "wrong" kinds of people - that is, people unlike themselves. Hillary Clinton's unexpected loss, particularly in traditionally blue strongholds, has led to lots of rumination about what the Democrats must do to reclaim their political territory.

Release of emails by Chicago mayor doesn’t end dispute

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel's decision to release thousands of pages of private emails does not end a dispute in Illinois about public access to such emails from him and other officials when they deal with government business. Emanuel announced late Wednesday that he had settled a lawsuit by a government watchdog group over emails from his personal accounts, but it allows him and his personal lawyer to decide which emails are public records and which are not.

Almond drink? Soy juice? Some lawmakers want to crack down on what can be sold as ‘milk’

A group of more than 20 U.S. legislators sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration demanding it require the makers of soy milk, almond milk and rice milk to drop "milk" from the label of anything that doesn't come directly from an animal. In the latest salvo in a nearly two-decades-old fight over what should and shouldn't be called milk, a group of more than 20 U.S. legislators sent a letter to the Food and Drug Administration demanding it require the makers of soy milk, almond milk and rice milk to drop "milk" from the label of anything that doesn't come directly from an animal.

Prosecutors: Livermore Lab scientist sought fame, not riches

A former Lawrence Livermore Laboratory scientist was sentenced to 18 months in prison this week for faking research results in a scheme that prosecutors said was to win promotions and glory - not to get rich. Sean Darin Kinion, 44, of Lafayette, cost the federal government more than $3.3 million from 2008 to 2012 because his quantum computing research project produced empty results and phony data, according to the U.S Attorney's Office.

Sources of Flint’s Water Disaster Run Deep

The committee's assessment: the federal Environmental Protection Agency is to blame more than Michigan's own leaders. to the House Appropriations Committee closing the investigation, Representative Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, found that the "federal regulatory framework is so outdated that it sets up states to fail."

Meet Debra Wong Yang, who could be Trump’s SEC chairman

The next top cop on Wall Street could be Debra Wong Yang, a former federal prosecutor who is currently a star lawyer who has defended the likes of Uber and Chris Christie. Yang is being considered by President-elect Donald Trump to become chairman/Gibson Dunn Law practice via CNN The next top cop on Wall Street could be Debra Wong Yang, a former federal prosecutor who is currently a star lawyer who has defended the likes of Uber and Chris Christie.

Probation Department convictions overturned

A federal appeals court on Monday overturned the convictions of three former Probation Department officials, ruling that the government "overstepped its bounds in using federal criminal statutes to police the hiring practices of these Massachusetts state officials." Former Probation Commissioner John O'Brien and former deputy commissioners Elizabeth Tavares and William Burke were convicted in 2014 for their roles in a patronage scheme in which they "abused the hiring process ... in exchange for favorable budget treatment from the state Legislature and increased control over the Probation Department," three U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit judges wrote in their opinion.

Obamacare’s Tennessee inroads tenuous under Trump

Obamacare's Tennessee inroads tenuous under Trump Tennessee, even without Medicaid expansion, saw a 4 percent decrease in uninsured people from 2010. Check out this story on jacksonsun.com: http://tnne.ws/2idFAkw Chris Kane had insurance through Community Health Alliance before it went defunct then moved to Blue Cross Blue Shield Tennessee, now will have to go to Humana.