The Agriculture Department has issued misleading and inaccurate reports about discrimination complaints and still can't say how many minority applicants are getting federal farm assistance, according to a federal audit.
SPRINGFIELD - Larry McKeon, Illinois' first openly gay legislator and an advocate for expanding state discrimination laws to cover gay people, has died at age 63, friends and colleagues said Wednesday.
A federal audit says the Agriculture Department has issued misleading and inaccurate reports about discrimination complaints in recent years and still has no reliable way to measure minority participation in U.S. farm programs.
