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How to Get Free Help With Your Taxes 04/10/2024 08:00pm • Preparing taxes on your own can be complicated, especially with ever-changing tax laws. Getting help from an expert can make it easier to file your return on time and ensure you're maximizing your tax benefits. But you don't always need to pay for tax help. Several federal programs, local resources 'I wasn't sick, I was grieving': Md. state employees to get more paid bereavement leave when a child dies 04/10/2024 07:10pm • Among the hundreds of bills passed in Maryland's State House this year is one that will give state employees who lose a child more paid time for bereavement. Currently, state workers get three days of paid bereavement leave. Under the legislation passed unanimously in both chambers, parents of Tara VanDerveer is ready to enjoy her life beyond basketball and thrilled where the sport is now 04/10/2024 06:47pm • STANFORD, Calif. (AP) ��� Tara VanDerveer nearly walked away from coaching 10 years ago before longtime Stanford supporter John Arrillaga asked her to seriously reconsider and insisted she take the summer off. What did the Hall of Fame coach do? She listened. She stuck with it. And she enjoyed a muc Assistant principal ignored warnings that 6-year-old boy had gun before he shot teacher, report says 04/10/2024 06:43pm • NORFOLK, Va. (AP) ��� A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school showed a ���shocking��� lack of response to multiple warnings that a 6-year-old had a gun in the hours before he shot his teacher, according to a grand jury report released Wednesday. ���The child was not searched. Th Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders urges lawmakers to pass budget as session kicks off 04/10/2024 06:19pm • LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) ��� Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Wednesday urged lawmakers to pass her $6.3 billion budget proposal that boosts spending on a new school voucher program. But she stopped short of making new policy proposals as she delivered her first state of the state address. The Nashville school shooting families accuse senator of using bill to get his way in records lawsuit 04/10/2024 05:48pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Family members representing the six people killed in a Nashville school shooting last year have filed an ethics complaint against a Tennessee state senator, arguing he is being self-serving by both suing for the release of the shooter���s writings and filing legislation to Iowa puts $1 million toward summer meal sites, still faces criticism for rejecting federal funds 04/10/2024 05:04pm • DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ��� Iowa is directing nearly a million dollars in grant funding to expand summer meal sites for low-income kids. It is an effort that advocates welcome, but some remained worried that it won���t be enough to alleviate the barriers to access that were addressed by a separate fe Man pleads not guilty to terrorism charge in alleged church attack plan in support of Islamic State 04/10/2024 04:41pm • COEUR d���ALENE, Idaho. (AP) ��� An 18-year-old man accused of planning to attack churches in a northern Idaho city in support of the Islamic State group has pleaded not guilty to a federal terrorism charge. Alexander Mercurio appeared Wednesday in Idaho���s U.S. District Court and pleaded not guil First Muslim American appellate court nominee faces uphill battle to salvage nomination 04/10/2024 04:19pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� The nominee who could become the first Muslim American to serve as a federal appellate court judge is fighting back against characterizations of his work by law enforcement groups that are jeopardizing his nomination. The White House and Senate are doubling down on their efforts Woodford Reserve tried to undermine unionization effort at its Kentucky distillery, judge rules 04/10/2024 02:53pm • Woodford Reserve undermined unionization efforts at its Kentucky distillery by awarding pay raises, relaxing its vacation policy and handing out bottles of whiskey to workers before a vote on whether to unionize, a federal judge ruled. The sweeteners the prominent bourbon maker offered to workers we Desperate young Guatemalans try to reach the US even after horrific deaths of migrating relatives 04/10/2024 01:51pm • COMITANCILLO, Guatemala (AP) ��� Every night for nearly two years, Glendy Aracely Ram��rez has prayed by the altar in her parents��� mud-brick bedroom where, under a large crucifix, is a picture of her sister Blanca. The 23-year-old died alongside 50 other migrants in a smuggler���s tractor-trailer Tennessee Senate OKs a bill that would make it illegal for adults to help minors seeking abortions 04/10/2024 12:40pm • NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) ��� Republican lawmakers in Tennessee on Wednesday advanced legislation making it illegal for adults to help minors get an abortion without parental consent, sparking objections from Democrats who counter that doing so could result in young victims needing approval from their p Movie Review: Should you watch 'Sasquatch Sunset' about a family of Bigfoots? Not yeti 04/10/2024 11:59am • Do you reckon Sasquatches snore? C'mon, you know the answer, deep down. Of course, they do. They snore and eat noisily and pick bugs out of each other's fur and then eat those bugs, noisily. What else do Sasquatches do, you wonder? One of the wildest movies of the year ��� or the century, for that m North Dakota woman who operated unlicensed day care is sentenced to 19 years in baby's death 04/10/2024 11:15am • A judge sentenced a North Dakota woman Tuesday to about 19 years in prison in connection with the death of a baby and injury of another boy that authorities tied to her unlicensed home child care center. Patricia Wick, of Jamestown, was charged last year. She pleaded guilty in January to felony char 5 questions to ask when helping an older parent with money 04/10/2024 09:51am • Conversations about money often require sensitivity and patience, especially when the person across the table is an older parent. Some of us won���t need ��� or want ��� to get involved in someone else���s finances. But others may have to take an active role in helping an older parent manage their m