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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that temporarily blocks the enforcement of South Carolina’s fetal heartbeat law, which would ban most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. The “South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act” is similar to abortion restriction laws previously passed in a dozen states that became tied up in ...

Effigy Mounds National Monument, Iowa. Photo: Jimmy Emerson. In an effort to strengthen enforcement of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the US Department of the Interior is altering the 1990 law, under which institutions receiving federal funding must inventory their troves of Indigenous human remains and burial objects so that these may be returned to trib...

AUSTIN, Texas - Republican Justin Berry’s Texas House campaign has centered largely on his 14-year tenure as an Austin police officer. He vows on his website to use that professional experience to "protect our neighborhoods, schools and private property." But less than two weeks before the March 1 GOP primary, Berry was among 19 Austin law enforcement officers indicted and accused of using ex...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – House Bill 20, also known as Cole’s Law, would protect those with disabilities from discrimination in Mississippi. The bill was authored by State Representative Lee Yancey. The proposal would ban healthcare providers from denying a person with a disability an organ transplant. The bill did not pass the House in 2020 or 2021. The inspiration for House Bill 20 comes from...

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — The four women all had sought medical help for obstetric emergencies, and each ended up in prison sentenced to 30 years on aggravated homicide convictions for allegedly terminating their pregnancies. After spending a combined four decades behind bars in El Salvador, one of the four countries in the Western Hemisphere with total bans on abortions, they were recently...

EDMOND, Oklahoma - Multiple homes connected to illegal grow operations across the state were raided Tuesday morning. It's the culmination of a yearlong OBN investigation. Twelve search warrants were executed at nine farms and three houses at the same time. One person who lives near one of the homes said she still cannot believe a home on her block is possibly part of the nationwide syndicate...

(From left to right) Deputy Tony Gonzalez, Trooper Derrick Qualls, and Officer Damian Cole (WTOK) MERIDIAN, Miss. (WTOK) - The Meridian Exchange Club held its 2022 Law Enforcement Appreciation Luncheon earlier this afternoon. The Exchange Club has been recognizing brave men and women in uniform for decades. The honorees are Trooper Derrick Qualls of the Mississippi Highway Patrol Troop H, Off...

A student walks on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut November 12, 2015. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (Reuters) - Yale Law School plans to wipe out tuition for low-income students starting in the fall, which its dean hopes will spark a wider move toward need-based financial aid in legal education. For the next three years, the school will provide full-tuition scholarships fo...

Lakeland city commissioners are under fire from constituents for approving new development in areas where roads are already congested, allowing new people and businesses to crowd into the city before supporting infrastructure is built or even planned. “I can’t go anywhere, to a social event, a birthday party” without people demanding to know why the commission is approving new development whe...

There is surely enough “Law & Order” content in existence to program an entire network, seven nights a week, with reruns. Spinoff “Special Victims Unit” has run continuously since 1999; the flagship series aired from 1990 to 2010. There are obvious market reasons to bring back the original — the perceived likelihood of a known quantity outperforming a replacement-level new series, the dec...