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Sydney festival board member Benjamin Law has resigned following the festival’s refusal to terminate a $20,000 sponsorship deal with the Israeli embassy. In a statement issued by the festival on Friday afternoon, author and screenwriter Law said: “Today’s decision to leave the board is mine alone. I am only comfortable departing now because I have every confidence in the remaining board direc...

Item Correspondent LANCASTER - The Massachusetts Attorney General has ruled the Selectboard is in violation of the state’s Open Meeting Law for two meetings in January 2021. Open Meeting Laws are state regulations that govern behaviors and meetings to keep government open and transparent, allowing any member of the public to make a complaint about clearly-defined matters, such as meeting min...

Gov. Pete Ricketts speaking about budgeting goals at Central Nebraska Regional Airport Thursday afternoon. He said he was looking toward obtaining ARPA funds to support improvements to the Law Enforcement Training Center in Grand Island. GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KSNB) - Following his State of the State Address, Governor Pete Ricketts flew out to the Central Nebraska Regional Airport Thursday after...

LAKEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) – As family and friends mourn the loss of their loved ones to a deadly shooting spree that spanned from Denver to Lakewood on Dec. 27, questions about the gunman are mounting. (credit: CBS) “This is really upsetting to a community,” Rep. Ed Perlmutter said. He is one of four Congressional leaders, including Representatives Jason Crow (CO-06), Diana DeGette (CO-01) and J...

Imagine if this truck driver was given space to leave his packages in a mini-distribution center, where they would be picked up by another worker on a cargo bike. File photo: Gersh Kuntzman This loading zone rule is a heavy lift. The city Department of Transportation is now required by law to install at least 500 neighborhood loading zones annually to mitigate the boom in deliveries — but the...

Brussels ready to recoup unpaid fines from Poland as rule of law rift widens  Financial Times

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, seen in October in Houston, has four days to turn over documents related to a Jan. 6 Trump rally or face a lawsuit. The Travis County district attorney on Thursday found that Attorney General Ken Paxton violated the state’s open records law by not turning over his communications from last January when he visited Washington, D.C., for a pro-Trump rally that p...

ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC)- On January 7 an infant child was found abandoned but alive in a New Mexico Dumpster, sparking a national conversation on child abandonment. In Texas, the Baby Moses, or Safe Haven Law has been in place since 1999 in attempts to protect surrendered children. “This is a real thing that could happen any day, and we want to be prepared for that,” says Abilene Fire Pub...

The Travis County district attorney on Thursday found that Attorney General Ken Paxton violated the state's open records law by not turning over his communications from last January when he visited Washington, D.C., for a pro-Trump rally that preceded the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP) *Editor's Note: This story's headline was edited fo...

CHARLOTTE — Now more than ever during the pandemic, law enforcement officers are risking their lives to keep our communities safe, and those struggles are made even more difficult by staffing shortages. Local departments are adding incentives to recruit new officers and keep the ones they have. “It’s an uphill battle, it definitely is,” said officer Tim Aycock of the Matthews Police Departmen...