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Clinton on
Brink of Dem
Nomination
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Hillary Clinton emerged
from New York’s presi-
dential primary closer to
clinching the Democratic
nomination and becom-
ing the first woman to
reach that milestone. Re-
publican Donald Trump
strengthened his own
path to the general elec-
tion with a commanding
victory, but has little
room for error in the
states ahead.
The front-runners now
hope to replicate their
strong showings in New
York in the cluster of
Northeastern states next
up on the primary calen-
dar.
Clinton was scheduled
to spend Wednesday
campaigning in Pennsyl-
vania, while Trump had
a rally planned in Mary-
land, as well as Indiana.
Following her win in
New York, a jubilant
Clinton made clear she
was moving past her un-
expectedly competitive
primary battle with Ber-
nie Sanders and setting
her sights on the general
election.
“The race for the nom-
ination is in the home
stretch, and victory is in
sight,” Clinton declared
to cheering supporters.
Three to be
Charged in Flint
Water Crisis
LANSING, Mich. (AP) —
Michigan’s attorney gen-
eral will announce crim-
inal charges Wednesday
against two state regula-
tors and a Flint employ-
ee, alleging wrongdo-
RACHEL WOOLF/THE FLINT JOURNAL-MLIVE.COM VIA AP
World News Briefs
Flint native and former Michigan State Police inspector Ellis Stafford
looks to Jeff Seipenko, special agent at State of Michigan Attorney
General, as they sit in court with warrants on Wednesday, April
20, 2016 at the Floyd J. McCree Courts & Human Services Center in
Flint, Mich. Two state regulators and a Flint employee were charged
Wednesday with evidence tampering and several other felony and
misdemeanor counts related to the Michigan city’s lead-tainted
water crisis.
ing related to the city’s
lead-tainted water crisis,
according to government
officials familiar with the
investigation.
The charges — the first
levied in a probe that is
expected to broaden —
will be filed against a pair
of state Department of
Environmental Quality
officials and a local water
treatment plant super-
visor, two officials told
The Associated Press late
Tuesday. They spoke on
the condition of anonym-
ity because they were not
authorized to discuss the
investigation publicly.
The felony and misde-
meanor charges include
violating
Michigan’s
drinking water law, offi-
cial misconduct, destruc-
tion of utility property
and evidence tampering,
according to one official.
For nearly 18 months
after Flint’s water source
was switched while the
city was under state fi-
nancial
management,
residents drank and
bathed with improp-
erly treated water that
coursed through aging
pipes and fixtures, re-
leasing toxic lead.
The city has been un-
der a state of emergen-
cy for more than four
months, and people there
have been drinking bot-
tled water.
Ruling Threatens
Key Provision of
N.C. Law
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) —
A federal appeals court
ruling on transgender
bathroom access in pub-
lic schools threatens a
key provision of a North
Carolina law limiting
protections for the LGBT
community.
The court decision has
prompted swift condem-
nation from the state’s
Republican leadership.
The 4th Circuit Court
of Appeals in Richmond
sided Tuesday with a
transgender teen’s ar-
guments that a Virginia
school board violated Ti-
tle IX by forbidding him
from using the boys’ re-
stroom. The interpreta-
tion of the federal educa-
tion law directly affects
North Carolina.
The court’s ruling im-
perils a provision in
the North Carolina law
— called HB2 — that re-
quires transgender stu-
dents in public schools
and universities to use
bathrooms correspond-
ing to the gender on their
birth certificate, said
Maxine Eichner, a Uni-
versity of North Carolina
law professor.
Judge Approves
Deal Between
Ferguson, DOJ
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A fed-
eral judge approved an
agreement Tuesday be-
tween Ferguson and the
U.S. Justice Department
that calls for sweeping
changes in the Missouri
city where 18-year-old
Michael Brown was fatal-
ly shot by a police officer.
U.S. District Judge
Catherine Perry issued
her ruling after a public
hearing of several hours
in St. Louis, where near-
ly three dozen people
spoke, and many others
had submitted written
comments.
The settlement calls for
diversity training for po-
lice; the purchase of soft-
ware and the hiring of
staff to analyze records
on arrests, use of force
and other police matters;
outfitting all officers and
jail workers with body
cameras; the hiring of a
team to monitor prog-
ress; significant munic-
ipal court reforms; and
other changes.
Mayor James Knowles
III said after the hearing
that the city has already
implemented many re-
forms, and will act swift-
ly on others to “move
into compliance as soon
as possible.”