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Sonoma County Administrator Sheryl Bratton announced this week that attorney Garrick Byers will be appointed to serve as interim director of the Independent Office of Law Enforcement Review and Outreach (IOLERO) beginning next Tuesday, pending board of supervisors' approval. Byers previously served as a deputy public defender in Fresno, Contra Costa and Solano counties and has been performing...

A caller became concerned after getting texts from someone pretending to be country star Alan Jackson and reported the incident to the Kalispell Police Department. An angry customer was yelling at employees, but a manager was able to calm the person down after calling law enforcement. A motorhome was parked on the city boulevard in a grassy area, but was blocking the city water shutoff when c...

A majority of the Supreme Court is acting more like a political body than a judicial one. Its treatment of Texas’ abortion law and its looming decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, which will for the first time overturn a case that provides a constitutional right, is merely part of the court’s lurch toward political activism. On Thursday, the court allowed the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Ci...

(Patch Media) Get on up, Concord! Tony Schinella here. Let's get you started this Saturday with everything you need to know going on around Concord today. First, today's weather: Mostly sunny and cold. High: 21 Low: 6. Here are the top stories today in Concord: Doris Shackford Obituary (2022) - Hooksett, NH - Concord Monitor (Legacy.com) Rollover Reported In Concord On Interstate 93 North (C...

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said last month that the United States was an international outlier in allowing abortion more than halfway through pregnancy. That later cutoff, he said, places the United States in the company of North Korea and China. It’s true in some ways, but not all. Few countries allow abortion without restriction until fetal viability, the cutoff set by Roe v. Wade, w...

YORKTOWN, N.Y. – In 2020, a law regulating ground-mounted solar structures was approved by the Town Board. If the ensuing slew of proposals was any indication, the law worked to encourage these types of developments—perhaps a little too well. Elected officials have now gone back to the drawing board to tweak a law that has resulted in more than a half-dozen solar proposals, most of which are ...

After abandoning plans to hire a Front Range law firm, the District 51 Board of Education approved, in a split vote, an expanded agreement with their current outside legal counsel based in Grand Junction. In recent years, Mesa County Valley School District 51 has relied on David Price and his law firm, Hoskin Farina & Kampf, to handle any legal matters that are beyond the scope of the dis...

NEW YORK, Jan. 22, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Activision Blizzard Inc. (NASDAQGS: ATVI) Lifshitz Law Firm, P.C. announces investigation into possible breach of fiduciary duties in connection with the sale of ATVI to Microsoft Corp. for $95.00 in cash per share of ATVI owned. If you are an investor, and would like additional information about our investigation, please complete the Information Re...

The National Crime Agency has said that end-to-end encryption risks “turning the lights out” for law enforcers trying to prevent child abuse, after the UK data watchdog said failure to introduce strongly encrypted messaging poses a risk to children. The NCA said referrals from social media companies led to 500 arrests and safeguarded 650 children every month in the UK, but that will become “m...

Vendors: The heat sources used to cook food by the unlicensed vendors are a fire hazard but a state law caps enforcement options for individuals who sell food or goods on the street. Holden Gering When Santa Monica’s State Senator Ben Allen voted in favor of a popular Democratic bill to decriminalize street vending he had no idea of the chaos it would contribute to on the Pier. At the time th...