Category U.S.

Voters in California will decide next month whether to raise the state’s minimum wage from $16 to $18 an hour. But a recent poll shows that support for the initiative has fallen below 50 percent, leading to doubts about its…

A Kentucky sheriff accused of fatally shooting a district judge spoke multiple times but did not appear to show much emotion during his arraignment in Carter County on Wednesday. Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines, 43, is charged with one…