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Monalita Smiley, Project Director of the Community Justice Center. ITHACA, N.Y.—Monalita “Mona” Smiley speaks with an even keel. She does not often stumble, pause, or have to rethink her sentences in the middle of them. When she does, it feels weighty. “I don’t get rattled, because I can’t be productive when I’m rattled,” said Smiley. Smiley was announced as the Project Director for the Commu...

A law on equal parenting time is a bad idea, the Cook County Public Guardian writes. Jeffrey Leving is mistaken that Illinois should pass a bill introduced in 2017 that would change divorce laws to create a presumption that both parents have equal parenting time with a child. Under the current law, the focus is where it belongs: the best interest of the child. We should not depart from the...

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania now has a law hat will give future families of loved ones who go missing a little more hope of finding the answer they seek. Gov. Tom Wolf signed legislation that will require police to collect a DNA profile of a person reported missing within a week of receiving a missing person report or beginning to investigate one, whichever is sooner, and turn it over to state p...

Massachusetts anticipated to receive over $9.5 billion over 5 years, including an increase in the re-authorization of federal transportation dollars LOWELL — Today, the Baker-Polito Administration outlined initial plans to make significant and additional investments into roads, bridges, public transportation and environmental infrastructure projects across the Commonwealth with funding from ...

Nelson Law Group, PC, an award-winning family law office in Flower Mound, is pleased to announce that it has hired accomplished lawyer and mediator Jim Ashmore. The addition, which was made official in December, is an exciting success for the award-winning firm, which now has four knowledgeable and compassionate attorneys on staff. Ashmore boasts nearly three decades of experience and is reco...

Newhouse Stands Up for Central Washington Law Enforcement, Supports Proposed Changes to State Law Enforcement Legislation  Dan Newhouse

News Briefs U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids, a Democrat, said the federal infrastructure law earmarked $58.6 million to plug more than 5,400 abandoned oil and gas wells in Kansas. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — The bipartisan federal infrastructure law appropriated $58.6 million to cap more than 5,400 oil and gas wells in Kansas that have been abandoned by owners and threaten water supp...

The Moneyist ‘Our daughter is separated from her husband, and it doesn’t appear that they will be getting divorced’ ‘It doesn’t appear that they will be getting divorced.’ My wife and I are in our 70’s and have one daughter as the sole beneficiary to our estate. We live in Ohio. She is separated from her husband, and it doesn’t appear that they will be getting divorced. They have no child...

Joe Buglewicz / AP PhotoThe RTS F series Body Worn Camera is shown on display at the RT Stream International Co., Ltd. booth during CES Unveiled ahead of the CES tech show, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, in Las Vegas. Fort Bend County’s law enforcement agencies are receiving new body cameras thanks to a measure passed by county commissioners in November 2021. During a press conference Thursday, Fort B...

A recent case out of Boynton Beach is calling new attention to Marsy’s Law, Florida’s 2018 law designed to boost and protect crime victims’ rights. A 13-year-old boy on a dirt bike was killed the day after Christmas as police tried to pull him over for riding recklessly. Now, the Boynton Beach police officer who attempted the traffic stop is seeking to have his identity withheld. “The law enf...