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KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — A new federal law affirms the operation of a casino in North Carolina by the South Carolina-based Catawba Indian Nation, ending a yearslong dispute between the tribes. President Joe Biden signed the The Catawba Indian Nation Lands Act, which was included in a larger piece of legislation authorizing military spending, on Monday. The Catawba Indian Nation will overse...

Marijuana grows in The Clinic's warehouse in Denver's Overland neighborhood. March 19, 2021. Two dozen new laws go into effect with the start of the new year. Here are four that could affect many Coloradans: Child sex assault survivors can now sue institutions that enabled their abuse The Child Sexual Abuse Accountability Act ends the statute of limitations for survivors to sue their abuser, ...

Jan. 1—The Centerville Police Department canceled an Endangered Missing Adult Alert for a missing Centerville man. Jack Cartwright, 89, was found safe by law enforcement, police said. He had been missing since Friday afternoon. Police said that at around 1:30 p.m. Cartwright drove away from his residence in Centerville and did not return. Cartwright suffers from various medical conditions, an...

Jake Crisco, general manager of the Green Leaf Medical Cannibis facility holds a mature bud of marijuana at the company’s plant in Richmond, Va., Thursday, June 17, 2021. The date for legalizing marijuana possession is drawing near in Virginia, and advocacy groups have been flooded with calls from people trying to understand exactly what becomes legal in July. (AP Photo/Steve Helber) PORTLAND...

We sometimes see images on TV of trucks full of money that wreck and create a blizzard-like cloud of cash that lands all over an interstate highway. Of course, in these circumstances, TV includes images of people jumping out of their cars to try to grab the cash. Unfortunately for the people who stop their cars in these circumstances, the law is clear that people are not allowed to keep the m...

From marijuana to minimum wage, states across the country are ringing in 2022 with new laws that will go into effect in the new year. January 1 is typically a day when laws passed in the previous year go on the books, Christina Ruffini reports for "CBS Saturday Morning." The nation's capital will join 15 states where recreational pot is legal. New York will become the second largest state aft...

A law allowing assisted suicide has taken effect in Austria. From Saturday, adults who are terminally ill or have a permanent, debilitating condition, can opt to make provisions for an assisted death. Parliament approved the new law in December, following a constitutional court ruling on the issue. The practice will be tightly regulated, with each case assessed by two doctors - one of whom wo...

New Year’s Day is more than a calendar change in D.C., Maryland and Virginia as several laws take effect in 2022. DC D.C. residents can expect reduced noise from grounds care. A ban on selling and using gas-powered leaf blowers will start on Jan. 1, with fines of up to $500 for those caught using the banned blowers. Restaurants will be banned from dispensing disposable items, such as napkins,...

RTD Metro Business law columnist, Karen Michael. As we approach two years into a pandemic, the new year is starting with the same feeling of exhaustion and malaise as it did at the beginning of 2021. Many employers, now on their third or fourth iteration of return-to-office plans, are once again re-thinking an extension of remote work as the fast-spreading omicron variant is playing havoc wit...

Most of the new laws taking effect Saturday were passed by the state legislature last June Most of the new Louisiana laws that took effect Saturday (Jan. 1) were passed by the state legislature in June 2021. BATON ROUGE (AP) — Louisiana’s medical marijuana program will offer raw, smokable cannabis to its patients, and the state will tweak its calculations for state income taxes as more than t...