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Indiana bill to close rape law loophole heads to governor  Washington Times Herald

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A new law signed by Gov. Mike DeWine Wednesday seeks to streamline the Minority Business Enterprise certification process in the state. According to a press release, the bipartisan Senate Bill 105 removes duplicative, bureaucratic hurdles for minority, women-owned and veteran-friendly businesses seeking Minority Business Enterprise certification – a process that proponents sa...

Law & Order fans lost a familiar face when Ned Eisenberg passed away February 27 at age 65. The actor played multiple characters within the franchise over the course of more than two decades, but was known best as Roger Kressler from Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — a role he played in 23 episodes from 2001-2019. It seems Eisenberg made an impact not just on-screen, but in the live...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - As Russian troops slowly advanced on Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Thursday, some people back in Moscow were attempting to flee to destinations abroad that have not banned flights from Russia, stomaching soaring prices in the rush to escape. The Kremlin dismissed speculation that Russian authorities plan to introduce martial law following the invasion of Ukraine, which Moscow c...

On December 23, 2020, then Governor Andrew Cuomo signed into law NY CLS Fin Serv §§ 801-812 (the “Disclosure Law”) with the intended purpose of “requiring certain providers that extend specific terms of commercial financing to a recipient to disclose certain information about the offer to the recipient.” Although the law was slated to take effect January 1, 2022, the New York Department of Fi...

MOSCOW, March 3 (Reuters) - As Russian troops slowly advanced on Ukraine's capital Kyiv on Thursday, some people back in Moscow were attempting to flee to destinations abroad that have not banned flights from Russia, stomaching soaring prices in the rush to escape. The Kremlin dismissed speculation that Russian authorities plan to introduce martial law following the invasion of Ukraine, which...

More than 2 million Texas elementary and middle-school students failed state assessments last year. In an attempt to catch them up after pandemic-related learning disruptions, the Texas Legislature passed a requirement that schools provide tutoring. The state set aside billions of dollars of federal pandemic relief funds to implement the program. But school districts are now saying the requir...

Cleveland Law Director Mark Griffin during a meeting of a Cuyahoga County Justice Center Executive Steering Committee on Feb. 10, 2022. Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb is looking to strengthen the city’s law department by seeking 20 additional staff members compared to where it stood at the end of 2021. According to Law Director Mark Griffin, 10 budgeted positions went unfilled last year. Griff...

Passing a comprehensive state privacy law has proven to be no small task. Doing it in a week's span is arguably impossible. Yet after just five working days, the Utah Legislature has settled on a law. Senate Bill 227, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, cleared the Senate Feb. 25 on a 28-0 vote and the House followed suit with 71-0 approval March 2. There are a few formalities left in the legislat...

(CNN)The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for Kentucky's Republican attorney general to step in to defend a controversial abortion law, after the Democratic governor declined to continue doing so. The law restricts a standard second-trimester abortion method known as "dilation and evacuation" that is used after 15 weeks of pregnancy. It was signed into law in 2018 but has so far been...