A statewide smoking ban, with exemptions, is headed to the full Senate for the first time after a committee heard almost four hours of testimony Wednesday and approved the bill 8-2.“This bill gets us not all the way there.
Dozens of non-profit organizations around the state would lose their specialty group license plates under legislation passed out of the House Roads and Transportation Committee on Wednesday.
Syrian gunners pounded an opposition stronghold where the last dispatches from a veteran American-born war correspondent chronicled the suffering of civilians caught in the relentless shelling.

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