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TAZEWELL, VA (WVNS)– New laws will go into effect in the Commonwealth on Saturday, January 1, 2021. Virginia will become the fourth state to ban cosmetics testing on animals. This is a part of the Humane Cosmetics Act, signed by Governor Ralph Northam. This act will also ban the sales of cosmetics that test on animals. Another big law in Virginia is minimum wage. Wages have risen from $9.50 a...

President Joe Biden steps off Marine One at Gordons Pond in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Monday, Dec. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law Monday, authorizing $768.2 billion in military spending, including a 2.7% pay raise for service members, for 2022. The NDAA authorizes a 5% increase in military spending...

President Joe Biden steps off Marine One at Gordons Pond in Rehoboth Beach, Del., Monday, Dec. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed the National Defense Authorization Act into law Monday, authorizing $768.2 billion in military spending, including a 2.7% pay raise for service members, for 2022. The NDAA authorizes a 5% increase in military spending...

DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Monday, Dec. 20 10-50 hit and run, ALP repairing a transformer at this location and found a vehicle with part of the transformer in its bumper, County Road 82 NW. Assist other agency, caller states his nephew took his car and didn't come back, thinks he may be in trouble with the law, Bryant Street. Motorist assist, got vehicle pushed off the road but has help ...

DALLAS — Editor's note: The above "Inside Texas Politics" video is from Dec. 26, 2021. Twenty-three new bills will become law in Texas starting on Jan. 1, 2022. All of these bills were passed during the regular session of the 87th Legislature. Most deal with certain tax requirements or tax-exemption statuses, but here are a few to keep in mind for when the New Year rolls around: This law will...

Vaccine fraud charges, nursing home audits, employee protections, and Styrofoam bans and more go into effect in the new year. Many new laws passed in Albany are set to go into effect in 2022. (Peggy Bayard / Patch) NEW YORK STATE — Each year, hundreds of laws are passed in Albany that affect the entire state, and some are going to be coming into effect in 2022. From vaccine fraud charges nurs...

Gerald Reed, whose life sentence was commuted by Gov. J.B. Pritzker, speaks to reporters outside Stateville Correctional Center on April 2. Reed says he was framed for a 1990 double murder by detectives working for disgraced Chicago police Cmdr. Jon Burge. It is imperative that Illinois continues to look at the ugly legacy of police torture and hold our criminal legal system accountable. B...

Under pressure from the United States, the Polish president on Monday vetoed a controversial media law that was widely viewed as targeting an American-owned media outlet. U.S. and European Union officials, along with dozens of Polish media outlets, had decried the proposal, warning it could undermine an independent press in the Central European country. The proposal, pushed by the country’s r...

People in the Law, Dec. 27, 2021 – Michigan Lawyers Weekly  Michigan Lawyers Weekly

PHENIX CITY, Ala. (WRBL) — Russell County Sheriff’s Office deputies were searching a wooded area near the Phenix City home Monday morning where a 5-year-old Georgia girl’s body was discovered two weeks ago. There were walking through a thick patch of trees on the right side of the abandoned house. Jeremy Williams, 33, was arrested and is in the Russell County Jail facing a Capital Murder char...