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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Maine Legislature approved a compromise bill to expand a law shielding people who report drug overdoses. The governor is expected to sign it. It builds on a 2019 law that exempts from criminal liability the person who calls 911 for help, along with the person who overdosed. The goal is to encourage people to help instead of declining to report an overdose for fear of...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A new law in Maine is designed to prevent harassment and blockades outside abortion providers in the state. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills announced Monday that she had signed the proposal into law last week. Supporters say the new law provides health service facilities the ability to establish and mark a “medical safety zone” that extends eight feet from the center of an ...

Tetra Images / Getty Images A political activist and atheist in Florida is using a contentious law that allows residents to object to teaching materials in public schools to request that the Bible be banned from classrooms and school libraries throughout the state. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 7 (sometimes called the Stop WOKE Act) into law earlier this year. DeSantis and other righ...

A former Perry County magisterial district judge was disbarred Tuesday, the latest action in a series that began after he pleaded guilty to multiple charges in February. 59-year-old Michael Schechterly was suspended when he was sentenced in February on two separate cases, one involving official oppression and the other involving corruption of minors. Since then, Schechterly submitted his resi...

Canada to Alter Sanctions Law to Allow Paying Compensation From Sanctioned Assets  U.S. News & World Report

Loveland Police Department arrests Friday, April 22 8:44 a.m. In the 500 block of West 10th Street, a 59-year-old Loveland man for investigation of verbal harassment and a bias motivated crime. Monday 12:45 p.m. In the 4100 block of North Garfield Avenue, a 34-year-old Loveland woman for investigation of first-degree criminal trespassing to a dwelling and on a misdemeanor failure-to-appear...

House Natural Resources Chair Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) introduced mining reform legislation yesterday. Francis Chung/E&E News With demand soaring for metals needed to make electric vehicles and zero-carbon energy projects, prominent Democrats today mounted an effort to reshape U.S. mining laws. House Natural Resources Chair Raúl Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) today an...

Black bear in North Carolina looks both ways before crossing street 00:00 00:0000:51GO LIVE Facebook Twitter Email Embed SpeedNormal Autoplay There’s a wild bear in North Carolina who seemingly knows how to look both ways before crossing a street. A video of the traffic savvy bear was shared to Facebook by the Asheville Police Department. The bear had been walking through the downtown area o...

Participants wave signs as they walk back to Orlando City Hall during the March for Abortion Access on Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday sent what's left of the major challenge to Texas' six-week abortion ban back to the state Supreme Court, with instructions to dismiss all charges. The order, a procedural step after the state high court ru...

Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, March 22, 2022. REUTERS/Patrick Doyle/File Photo April 26 (Reuters) - The Canadian government will change its sanctions law to allow for seized and sanctioned foreign assets to be redistributed as compensation to victims or to help in rebuildin...