More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant.

A battering winter storm has knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses across the United States.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied an attempt by the Montana secretary of state to restore Green Party candidates to the November ballot. Republican Secretary of State Corey Stapleton filed a motion Monday to halt the state Supreme Court order. Stapletons certification of the November ballot, sent to counties late Thursday, included an asterisk saying the secretary and other parties were challenging the Montana Supreme Court decision. Green Party candidates are believed to draw votes away from Democratic candidates. It was never determined who was behind the 2018 effort to get Green Party candidates on the Montana ballot.

ROCKY MOUNT, Va. - A little bit of straw is all that remains of the scarecrow display that, until a few days ago, was in front of the Franklin County courthouse in Rocky Mount. Rocky Mount Assistant Town Manager Matt Hankins doesn't know why it was taken down. She, too, does not know why the courthouse display was taken down. Each scarecrow display around town represents the business or organization that put it up. The clerk's office said there are no plans to put the courthouse display up anywhere else.