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CONCORD – An effort to repeal the state’s new 24-week fetal protection law came to an emotional head at a legislative hearing Thursday with personal testimony given by women on both sides of the issue of abortion and from the medical community that it will likely lead to a loss of those providing care in the Granite State if allowed to stand. Public information on the sign-in for HB 1673 foun...

At the end of 1941, over 27 000 Jews were murdered by the Nazis in the Rumbula forest near Riga Latvia's parliament on Thursday passed a Holocaust restitution bill to compensate the Jewish community for lost property more than 75 years after the end of World War II. The 100-seat Saeima voted 64-21 to approve the "Law on the Compensation of Goodwill to the Latvian Jewish Community" following y...

Safe and Welcoming City Act becomes law in KCK  KCTV Kansas City

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — A Texas law that took effect this past summer has left one part of the city of Amarillo’s budget significantly lower than usual and leaders are trying to figure out how to pay for it moving forward. In the last legislative sessions, Texas passed Senate Bill 22. The bill essentially creates a presumption that first responders who die from or are disabled by any di...

Cassandra Dollard in court (Credit: WCIV) GEORGETOWN COUNTY, S.C. (WPDE) — A Hemingway police officer, who is charged with voluntary manslaughter in a deadly shooting Sunday in Georgetown County, didn't have the perfect record in her 30 years of law enforcement, according to training records and other documents. Cassandra Dollard appeared before a judge Thursday morning for a bond hearing, wh...

Senate President Craig Blair reads the vote total for SB 550, creating a performance-based funding formula for public higher education institutions. (Photo courtesy of WV Legislative Photography) CHARLESTON — The West Virginia Senate voted Thursday on multiple bills on Day 30 of the 60-day legislative session dealing with taxpayer funding of higher education, protections for workers fired whi...

The league relies on arbitration and grievance processes to maintain confidentiality and avoid the courts. There’s nothing illegal about that. Leaking false claims to paint the innocent as guilty. Destroying evidence that would have cleared the accused. Silencing victims to protect the wrongdoers. Conducting sham interviews. Fixing matches. Those might sound like the schemes of a totalitarian...

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION An act to amend Sections 31525, 31646, 31725.7, 31730, 31760, and 31838.5 of, and to add Sections 31646.2 and 31680.16 to, the Government Code, relating to public employees’ retirement. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1971, as introduced, Cooper. County Employees Retirement Law of 1937. The County Employees Retirement Law of 1937 (CERL) author...

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION An act to amend Section 8280 of the Government Code, relating to state government. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1988, as introduced, Bauer-Kahan. California Law Revision Commission: Committee on Revision of the Penal Code. Existing law establishes the California Law Revision Commission to, among other things, examine the law for defects or ...

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION An act to amend Sections 422.55, 422.87, 422.9, 13023, and 13519.6 of the Penal Code, and to amend Section 1 of Chapter 691 of the Statutes of 2021, relating to hate crimes. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1947, as introduced, Ting. Hate crimes: law enforcement policies. Existing law defines a “hate crime” as a criminal act committed, in whole...