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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WKRC) - After a woman was sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing $1.5 million worth of chicken wings from the school she worked at, a NFL player offered to buy her freedom. Vera Liddell, 68, was arrested for stealing $1.5 million worth of food from take-home meals for students over the COVID 19 pandemic. Attorneys said she operated from July of 2020 through February of 2022.

A federal court gave final approval Thursday to the redrawn Virginia House of Delegates map that a court-appointed expert created to resolve the state’s long-running racial gerrymandering case. In a 2-1 opinion, judges for the Richmond-based Eastern District of Virginia ordered the state to adopt the map created by University of California-Irvine political science professor Bernard Grofman. The map could boost Democrats’ chances of taking control of the House later this year by tilting six GOP-held districts toward Democrats and imperiling the re-election campaigns of two top Republicans. Republicans had called Grofman’s map “legally indefensible,” saying it “attempts to give...