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Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) announced that she will nominate J. Cody Hilland as the next justice for the state Supreme Court, adding that his appointment would give the court a conservative majority for the first time ever. “I am pleased to announce that I have selected another former prosecutor and a U.S. Attorney Cody Hyland for this role,” she announced Monday at the Arkansas

Kansas taxpayers paid more to tax collectors than expected over the past 12 months, and politicians are eyeing tax cuts next year after failing to agree on how to provide tax relief this year. Taxpayers paid roughly $10.2 billion in taxes to Kansas state government in the past fiscal year, with tax receipts to the State General Fund beating original projections by $874 million, according to

A woman has been charged with felony embezzlement for allegedly stealing about $250,000 from a Toyota dealership when it was in Louisville, Miss., local station WTOK reported. Louisville is in eastern Mississippi, northeast of Jackson. Latisha Jones Smith, 50, was formerly the comptroller for Doc's Toyota, according to WTOK. She had been let go by Doc's Toyota on Jan. 5 for matters unrelated

Chicago aldermen voted to spend $51 million on migrant care through June as Mayor Brandon Johnson works to get a handle on the ongoing humanitarian crisis. The City Council’s spending authorization comes at a critical time for Chicago government, which is struggling to care for thousands of migrants amid pushback from residents amid financial woes exacerbated by lowball funding appropriations