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A federal lawsuit has been filed by a woman who claims LaSalle County sheriff's deputies violated her civil rights when they forcibly stripped her…

The three-person board met briefly Friday in the first of a series of meetings.

Board members picked to oversee the governance of Disney World said their predecessors pulled a fast one on them by passing restrictive covenants that strip the new board of many of its powers.

The legal match between lawyers for the two presidential candidates continued today in the Leon County Circuit Court in Tallahassee, Florida. Vice President Gore is challenging the state's certification of Texas Governor George W. Bush as the winner of its crucial Electoral College votes. The next hearing on the issues in that case is scheduled for Saturday, but today both teams of lawyers were in a Leon County courtroom anyway, arguing over how many ballots ought to be brought from South Florida to Tallahassee for safekeeping and possible recounting. The judge sided with Bush attorneys who asked for a larger number of ballots to be brought up to the state capitol, not just the 14-thousand disputed ballots requested by the Gore legal team. NPR's Steve Inskeep has the news from the courthouse.

The Arkansas Supreme Court has said it won't reconsider its decision to halt the execution of Stacey Johnson.

Firefighters are battling a growing wildfire in Northern California that has forced at least 26,000 people to evacuate. The fire's cause is being investigated.

The bill allows tribe to acquire 1,500-acre state park in DeKalb County.

In the swing state of Pennsylvania, voters won't have the option to select their secretary of state this November.

Critics, including the National Park Service, said exploding rockets after launch could rain fiery debris onto surrounding land, including a federally protected wilderness.

Nearly 100 days into his new term, President Trump has set an aggressive agenda, spending his political capital and losing some of the public approval he began with.