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State and local law enforcement have opened an investigation into a reported gunshot injury at a Rockwell City convenience store. At approximately 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the Rockwell City Police Department was dispatched to Casey’s General Store in the 600 block of W. High Street in response to a male subject in need of help. Upon arrival, officers learned the individual had suffered a gunshot...

What You Need to Know Worker attitudes about balancing jobs and home have shifted over the past year. The pandemic has helped drive the reassessment. A smattering of companies have reduced the work week to four days. Welcome to Labor of Law, our labor and employment dispatch spotlighting key issues and developing trends. Thanks for reading, and we’d love your feedback. Please email thought...

The San Jose City Council has approved the nation's first law requiring gun owners to have liability insurance. City leaders hope it will reduce gun violence. Gun owners say they're being harassed. Popular on NPR.org NPR Editors' Picks

Fox News Flash top headlines for January 27 00:00 00:0002:34GO LIVE Facebook Twitter Email Embed SpeedNormal Autoplay WASHINGTON – Curiosity, candor and collegiality mark the professional life of Justice Stephen Breyer, a man equally at home in the halls of justice and the worlds of culture, literature, and quiz shows. Sources tell Fox News the longtime progressive member of the Supreme Co...

LAREDO, Tx . (KGNS) - Governor Greg Abbott recently signed a state law banning the use of heavy chains and restraints on pets. Authorities believe this new rule will help spot and tackle animal cruelty. Joe Baeza with the Laredo Police Department says the new law sets up new parameters for owners, especially with non-livestock animals such as dogs, since they are common in households. Whether...

We have seen an appalling increase in law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty this past year. It’s a tragedy that deserves much more attention than it’s getting. Seventy-three officers were murdered in the line of duty in 2021, the highest annual number since the 9/11 attacks, and the equivalent of one officer murdered every five days. It’s heartbreaking to realize how many office...

President Biden has signed an executive order making sexual harassment a crime under military law, allowing prosecution of crimes outlined by the president under Article 134 of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice, reports the Wall Street Journal. The president’s order in how sexual harassment cases are prosecuted is encompassed in the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act and provides a ...

Facing crowded jails, a lack of defense lawyers, a shortage of judges, and accusations that a Texas county official has supplanted judges who failed to rule in line with their law enforcement-heavy response to an “invasion of illegal aliens,” the two small rural counties of Kinney and Val Verde have become overwhelmed by cases after authorizing state and local police departments to partner wi...

The Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. Under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, companies will have to document that their imports aren’t sourced from forced labor in China. U.S. importers risk goods held at border if unable to prove provenance Compliance requirements may not be ready by June 21 effective date Companies are facing fresh suppl...

LEADER BOARD - Everybody needs at least one person in their lives who isn’t afraid to give it to them straight. Reed Smith appears to now have three. The firm, in what appears to be an unprecedented move among the Am Law 100, is forming an outside advisory board composed of three business executives to guide the international firm on strategy, Law.com’s Dan Packel reports. The group, called t...