A federal appeals court has ruled that a Florida law banning gender-affirming care can be enforced while a legal challenge plays out.

A federal appeals court has cleared the way for Florida to enforce a ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

Work on compromise budget legislation Virginia lawmakers will take up later this week is complete, and the bill does not include language enabling a proposed relocation by the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals to Alexandria.

It has been an emotional year for Mary Grace Hamilton-Lucas and her family. They are dealing with the grief of losing a young loved one to domestic violence.

A leading Democratic Virginia legislator says proposed legislation to help pave the way for the NBA’s Washington Wizards and NHL’s Washington Capitals to relocate to northern Virginia is dead.

A new AP-NORC poll shows that personal finances are a major source of stress for about half of the lower income households in the U.S.

It’s a trend we’ve seen across the country, and It’s picking up momentum in Metro Detroit schools. More counties are planning to lift the orders requiring face masks in schools. Ingham County is rescinding Its mask requirements on Feb. 19.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel is officially going on the record saying what she believes the state’s power companies should do during this rough time.

An 11-year-old boy has raised thousands of dollars to buy critical equipment for seven fire departments in the state of Michigan. His name is Lucas Vetter, and it’s hard to know how many lives he has saved. Two years ago, on a tour of a local fire department, he saw the LUCAS machine -- a hands-free CPR device for use by paramedics. “I went home and made a business plan to buy one of those machines for every fire department in Michigan," he said. Two years later, Lucas and his family have already raised enough money to provide seven LUCAS machines to local fire departments.

PORTSMOUTH, Va. The police chief in Portsmouth, Virginia, is on paid leave nearly three weeks after her department charged a state senator and several others from the city's Black community with conspiring to a damage a Confederate monument. City spokeswoman Dana Woodson confirmed in an email on Friday that Chief Angela Greene is on leave and that an assistant police chief will assume her duties in the meantime. Allies of State Sen. Louise Lucas in Richmond have called the felony charges against her legally weak and political. The case is based on words that police say Lucas spoke in the hours before protesters ripped heads off Confederate statues and pulled one down, critically injuring a demonstrator. Greene became Portsmouth's police chief in 2019 after chief Tonya Chapman resigned.

NEW YORK The head of the organization which presents the National Book Awards is joining the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Lisa Lucas, executive director of the National Book Foundation since 2016, has been named senior vice president of the Knopf imprints Pantheon and Schocken Books. We just had this really organic conversation about careers and the book world and what I was I good at and what I was interested in. She will remain with the book foundation through the end of the year, and will again oversee the awards ceremony, to be held online because of the coronavirus. We are deeply grateful for Lisas years of leadership at the National Book Foundation, David Steinberger, chair of the foundations board of directors, said in a statement.

KCPQ via CNNBELLINGHAM, Wash. (KCPQ) - A mother in Washington state is speaking out after she says her son's school district moved his desk into the bathroom. In a photo Goodwin took, a desk is seen over a toilet and a chair next to the sink. She said, in the past, she's had no problems with the school district meeting her son's educational needs. Bellingham School District officials would not speak on camera but provided a statement. Lucas says he "never" wants to go back to the school, because, he says, "They put me in a bathroom."