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By Nicole WaltonHoughton, MI – A Hancock man accused of stealing a diamond ring and trying to use a stolen credit card has been sentenced for his…

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The three were allegedly at the center of a scheme that loaned $2 billion to Mozambique for sham tuna fishing and naval projects.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Bruce Lesley of the advocacy group, First Focus on Children, about how the Republican and Democratic presidential campaigns are bringing family issues to the forefront.

As bad as the reported numbers are, the actual toll is likely much worse. India's relentless virus surge is leading to deadly shortages of hospital beds, medical oxygen and drugs.

Cookbook author Diane Morgan says there's much more to a carrot than the orange part. But too often, she says, the root vegetable's frilly green fronds end up in the trash.

Rooftop solar installers are steering customers toward leases instead of purchases. Federal tax credits for purchased systems have ended but are still available for leased ones.

On Wednesday, California made its last payment on debt incurred in 2004 by Proposition 57, which sought to deal with the state's fiscal crisis. NPR's Arun Rath talks to John Myers of KQED for more.

Not paying someone for a job they did is illegal. It's called wage theft. But in California, the worst offender has paid only a tiny fraction of the millions of dollars in wages he owes workers.

Dias Kadyrbayev went to college with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for getting rid of a computer and fireworks in Tsarnaev's room.