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Candice Norwood

Web Producer/Writer

Candice is a St. Louis, Mo., native who received her bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her master's from American University in Washington, D.C. Before joining Governing, she worked as a web producer for Politico, a politics fellow with The Atlantic, and a weekend White House freelancer for Bloomberg. She has covered criminal justice, education and national politics.

Rep. Matt Manweller became one of the most visible faces of the #MeToo movement as it swept through the statehouse in Olympia, though most of the allegations against him involved his time as a high-school teacher and later a college professor.
In the Texas prison system, toothless and nearly toothless inmates are routinely denied dentures and instead offered blended food — often regular cafeteria meals simply pureed.
The state's Department of Corrections says its new rule is aimed at preventing contraband from being smuggled into its prisons.
Just weeks before the Merrimack Valley explosions, federal pipeline regulators audited the state’s utility commission and raised concerns about attrition among the agency’s inspectors.
The hearing marked the second time that a group of men targeted by Ronald Watts and his tactical team at an affordable housing complex on the South Side had their convictions overturned in a mass hearing.
Hepatitis C kills far more Americans than any other infectious disease.
The increase in marijuana arrests—659,700 in 2017, compared to 653,249 in 2016—is driven by enforcement against people merely possessing the drug as opposed to selling or growing it, the data shows.
Police said in a news release that Hall fired Amber Guyger after an internal investigation found the officer had engaged in "adverse conduct" when she was charged with manslaughter three days after the shooting.
BuzzFeed reported that the meeting is set to take place Tuesday at 10 a.m. between top Department of Justice officials and the attorneys general from Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, Tennessee, Utah and D.C.
After months of headlines about missing runaways, foster children sleeping in offices and high-profile deaths, this was the last thing the Kansas Department for Children and Families wanted to see.