Clinton campaigning on wage gap...Deputy freed on bail...College fined

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MONTICELLO, Iowa (AP) — Conducting low-key campaigning in Iowa, Hillary Rodham Clinton says she wants to be a "champion" for struggling families." Appearing with a small group at a rural community college, Clinton said the deck is stacked in favor of those at the top.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House has voted to ease some mortgage lending requirements enacted on banks and Wall Street after the financial crisis despite the threat of vetoes. Home mortgages were a flashpoint of the 2008 financial crisis that brought on the Great Recession.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma insurance executive who volunteers as a reserve deputy has been booked on a manslaughter charge and released on bail. Robert Bates surrendered to the Tulsa County Jail. He's accused of accidentally shooting a suspect who was being arrested. His lawyer says Bates has been "honest and transparent" about the shooting. The 73-year-old has said he mistook his handgun for a Taser.

WASHINGTON (AP) - The federal government is fining Corinthian Colleges subsidiary Heald $30 million dollars for allegedly misleading students and engaging in "egregious misconduct." The Department of Education says San Francisco-based Heald College has shown a pattern of falsifying post-graduation employment data. In one instance, Heald's Honolulu campus said a graduate had found work in her chosen field of accounting - even though administrators knew she was working at Taco Bell.

ATLANTA (AP) — An Atlanta judge has thrown the book at 10 former Atlanta public school educators convicted of conspiring to inflate students standardized test scores. The judge had delayed sentencing by a day and encouraged the defendants to negotiate plea deals. Two who took his advice were sentenced to curfew at home and weekends in jail. The others will have to spend from one to seven years behind bars.