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King County repeals mandatory bicycle helmet law | News | wenatcheeworld.com  wenatcheeworld.com

ST. LOUIS — Saturday will mark one year since 29-year-old Christopher Maassen of Marthasville, Missouri, was shot and killed on the side of I-95 in Florida following an altercation. His shooter claimed self-defense. Because of Florida's "stand your ground" law, he was able to walk away. It has left the Maassen family with heartbreak and questions. Maureen Huber of St. Louis is Maassen’s older...

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) – Southern University Law Center is celebrating its 75th anniversary. The center opened back in 1947 to help provide legal education to African-Americans everywhere. 30-year faculty member and Chancellor John Pierre says Southern University’s Law Center started as an intimate school with only 13 students, now they have over 900. “You have to have the faith of a must...

Kaine pushes change in retirement law to encourage savings  Richmond.com

Center: Melissa Lucio at court in 2008 in Brownsville, Texas. (Image: AP Photo/Valley Morning Star, Theresa Najera). Other images provided courtesy of the Lucio family. Two key members of Ms. Lucio’ s original defense team are now working for the Judge overseeing her case and the District Attorney seeking to have her executed (Brownsville, Texas) Attorneys for Melissa Lucio today filed two ...

Kent State University is partnering with Cleveland State University on a program that would allow students to earn a bachelor’s degree from Kent State and a law degree from CSU in six years. After earning academic credit equivalent to three full-time years of study, Kent State students in the program will be eligible for admission to CSU’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Students will be...

WINCHESTER, Va. (WDVM) — Several schools in Virginia are changing their mask policies after Governor Glenn Youngkin signed a new legislation leaving the decision to parents whether their child wears a mask or not. What do health experts think about this new legislation? The great debate over making mask an option has come to an end, but health experts say this could make putting an end to the...

A statue of the scales of justice stands high above the Old Bailey on December 12, 2003 in London, UK [Ian Waldie/Getty Images] International law is in crisis – displaying many of the same signs identified by past generations of legal scholars as characteristic of “savagery” and “barbarism.” Under international legal doctrines developed in previous centuries by Europeans and “spread by the sw...

Nebraska law enforcement officers could deduct 50 to 100 percent of their pay from state income tax under a bill heard Feb. 16 by the Revenue Committee. Sen. Steve Halloran Hastings Sen. Steve Halloran, sponsor of LB1265, said the tax benefit would help Nebraska communities recruit and retain officers. Under his proposal, officers who have completed at least one year but less than 10 years of...

Former President Donald Trump. Trump's lawyers kept interrupting the judge at a contentious court hearing this week. The interruptions were so frequent that a law clerk had to step in. "When the judge speaks, you have to stop speaking," the clerk told Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba. Get a daily selection of our top stories based on your reading preferences. Something is loading. Email addr...