LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Seven more Republican-led states sued Tuesday to challenge a new federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation’s schools. Republican plaintiffs call the effort to fold protection for transgender students under the 1972 Title IX law unconstitutional. The lawsuits filed in federal courts in Missouri and Oklahoma are the latest GOP attempts to halt the new regulation seeking to clarify Title IX, a landmark 1972 sex discrimination law originally passed to address women’s rights and applied to schools and colleges...

SAN ANTONIO – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration have issued an emergency warning after a cluster of 22 people in 11 states reported adverse effects from counterfeit or mishandled botulin toxin injections. The states impacted include Texas, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Tennessee, and Washington. The people affected were women ages 25 to 29 years old, who received injections by unlicensed, untrained individuals or in non-health care settings, like homes or spas. Dr.

Powerful tornadoes and storms swept through southwestern Michigan Tuesday evening, destroying or damaging homes and businesses and injuring several residents – and millions more from northeast Texas to the Carolinas face at least a slight risk of severe weather Wednesday. At least a dozen people were injured at a mobile home park in Pavilion Township following a tornado Tuesday, according to a county official. The township is located in Kalamazoo County, where 15 to 20 people had minor injuries and were transported to two area hospitals, according to the county’s...

Tornadoes were spotted after dark Tuesday in parts of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio. Portions of Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri were also under a tornado watch, according to the National Weather Service. There were no serious injuries immediately reported, but city officials said in a news release that the twisters knocked out power to more than 20,000 people. Most of them would be without power until late Wednesday, city officials said. Tuesday's storms came a day after parts of the central United States were battered by heavy rain, strong winds, hail...

The American Red Cross is responding to the tornado which devastated a small town in northwest Oklahoma Monday night, while continuing to help people impacted by last week’s tornadoes and Texas flooding. Meanwhile, millions of people face the threat of more tornadoes today. Trained Red Cross disaster workers and partners are responding across Oklahoma. They are providing a safe place to stay, food, relief supplies, health services, and emotional and spiritual care for people in Barnsdall affected by Monday’s devastating tornado and helping people in the southeast part of the...

Two Miami-Dade County men are in jail awaiting extradition to Virginia in connection with a huge cigarette heist there last month. Alberto Rico Perez, 31, of Miami Gardens and Ramon Izquierdo, 57, of Hialeah were arrested Friday by the Miami-Dade County Fugitive Task Force and Doral Police Department, according to officials. Police in Culpeper, Virginia, say the men were among a crew of five thieves who burglarized the Merchants Grocery Company on March 23. They forced their way inside the building and stole an undisclosed amount of cigarette cartons, Officer...

New Hampshire could become the latest US state to ban child marriage after its House of Representatives passed a bill that would raise the minimum age for marriage to 18. Until 2016, child marriage – defined as a union involving at least one person under 18 years of age – was legal in all 50 states, sometimes only under specific circumstances, such as pregnancy. But since the US signed up to a United Nations plan to end the practice by 2030, 12 states have passed laws banning it, beginning with...

A tornado watch is in effect for the Louisville metro area until 3 a.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service announced Tuesday evening. The watch also includes counties in central and western Kentucky as well as southern Indiana. More than 4.3 million people are in the affected area, according to the weather service. A graphic from the weather service stated a few tornadoes are "likely" to occur in the impacted area. Additionally, hail up to the size of a tennis ball and scattered wind gusts of up to 70 mph are...

A baby boom just hit a Kentucky sheriff's office. Fifteen employees at the Boone County Sheriff's Office in Burlington, Ky., welcomed babies this past year. A photo on Facebook of all of the staffers and their children has gone viral since it was published on Tuesday, April 30. The picture has earned over 2,000 likes and 300 comments and was shared by more than 260 users. “We’re growing in more than one way. BCSO Baby Boom, circa 2023,” read the caption. According to , photographer Kyla Scudder with Kyla Mae...

Tyler Childers and Sierra Ferrell are the leading nominees at the 2024 Americana Honors & Awards. The Appalachia-reared musicians each scored three nominations — including Album, Song, and Artist of the Year — when the categories were announced on Tuesday at the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville. Childers, a Kentucky native, is nominated for his album Rustin’ in the Rain and the song “In Your Love,” while the West Virginia native Ferrell is recognized for the album Trail of Flowers and the song “American Dreaming.” Other Artist...