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Approved by referendum, the measure overturns a 150-year-old ban. It applies to those who have completed their sentences, except those convicted of murder or a felony sex offense.

Brown's supporters say she was a victim of human trafficking who has remade herself while in prison — and on Monday, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam agreed.

The victims were illegally searching for gold and had dug deep in a riverbed in northeastern Afghanistan, according to a spokesman for the provincial governor.

The 82-year-old lawmaker fended off tough primary and general election challenges in 2014. Some national Republicans hope Secretary of State Mike Pompeo might run for his seat next year.

The crash near Gainesville involving two semitrucks and several passenger vehicles. The children, who were riding in a van, were part of a church congregation from a small town in Louisiana.

The air has been getting dirtier around the country's largest coke fuel plant near Pittsburgh. The push to clean up pollution is complicated when residents depend on the industry that's causing it.

The next presidential election doesn't happen for 22 months, but the campaign is now already underway — with plenty of potential candidates making news this week.

The annual unveiling on Thursday doubled as an opportunity for state officials to plug milk and other products of the struggling dairy industry.

Gunmen fatally shot the mayor of a town in Oaxaca state as he walked to city hall. It was the latest in a year of killings of public officials.

The federal judge in Texas issued a stay on the health care law more than two weeks after ruling it unconstitutional due to a recent elimination of a tax penalty on uninsured people.