Leah Willingham

Leah Willingham is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on under-covered issues.

W.Va. Abortion Ban Advances Without Rape, Incest Exceptions

As West Virginia's Republican supermajority continued advancing a sweeping abortion ban bill Tuesday, Democrats failed for the second time in two days to garner enough support to add exceptions for rape and incest.

Judge: Street preachers’ $500K bond ‘grossly unreasonable’

Two Mississippi street preachers who were convicted of misdemeanor simple assault for calling a woman a “Jezebel” and waving a Bible in a man's face were released from jail Wednesday after a judge found they were being held under “grossly unreasonable” bond.

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