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DURHAM, N.C. Two months ago, the North Carolina state legislature voted to allow local distilleries to distribute and sell alcohol on Sundays, overturning a prohibition-era limit on spirits. Just in time for the holidays, distilleries are open on Sundays, welcoming customers for tastings, tours and sales. What You Need To Know In October, the North Carolina state legislature voted to allow ...

Dozens of cities and states are enacting new laws to protect tenants facing eviction, aiming to stem a tide of new cases and offer renters more ways to settle conflicts with property owners. Eviction filings nationwide started ticking up in September after a yearlong national eviction moratorium ended. By October, the more than 48,000 filings represented a 24% increase over those registered i...

Credit: John Chapin Lloyd L. Weinreb ’62 is “one of the great figures in the history of our Law School,” said John F. Manning ’85, the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, in a message to the community last week. During his half-century tenure at HLS, Weinreb was known nationwide as a leading authority on criminal and copyright law — and on campus as an HLS tr...

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Photograph of a heap of compressed cardboard moving boxes following a domestic house move in Lafayette, California, December 3, 2020. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - Florida law enforcement is warning people this holiday season to not place any gift or merchandise boxes in front of their homes as it could make them a target to criminals. The Orange County S...

photo illustration by ALEXA WELCH EDLUND/times-dispatch Is it now illegal for your business to pay ransomware if its computer system gets cryptolocked? To understand the pros and cons of possibly paying, first look at how ransomware usually works. Ransomware attacks generally come from sophisticated criminal organizations. It’s not just one bad person with a cryptolocking program. These gro...

U.S. prosecutors filed a RICO case against alleged members of rival street gangs who warred for years in the Mill Brook Houses in New York’s South Bronx neighborhood. Statute created to bring down the mafia is being used more creatively to go after individuals, like singer R. Kelly and Nxivm founder Keith Raniere U.S. prosecutors filed a RICO case against alleged members of rival street gan...

March against femicides at Syntagma square, Athens, Dec. 17, 2021. (Photo by Eurokinissi/Sotiris Dimitropoulos) ATHENS – It’s been a deadly year for women in Greece with at least 17 cases of murder by husbands and partners, showing no sign of relenting and leading to cries from activists for a special law to deal with it. That toll included two women killed within a five-day period even after...

BOSSIER CITY, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – Law enforcement have to be away from their families to serve the community on Christmas, so Tubbs Hardware gives a little back. Saturday morning volunteers came together to barbeque and box up meals to be delivered to on-duty law enforcement in Bossier City. Beginning at 11:00 a.m. boxes began to be picked up and sent to Bossier sheriff`s deputies, Bossier City...

SANDUSKY — With his extensive experience and knowledge of Ohio law, criminal defense attorney Jonathan McGookey recently joined the Kademenos, Wisehart, Hines, Dolyk & Wright Co., LPA firm "with the confidence to take any case," according to a firm statement. As a criminal defense attorney, McGookey handles cases ranging from minor traffic violations to sex crimes. His areas of focus incl...