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The Blacks in Law Enforcement of America is backing Eric Adams' position on punitive segregation in jails. A black law enforcement organization backed Mayor-elect Eric Adams’ position on revamping solitary confinement in New York City jails amid a push by lawmakers to ban the practice. “Our elected officials cannot have it both ways; you should have the same attitude about crime within the ja...

BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The United States' signing of the so-called "Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act" into law which bans imports from China's Xinjiang region is economic bullying and another attempt to interfere in China's internal affairs, analysts told Xinhua. This law, based on ill-informed information and prejudicial to China, is "sheer interference in Chinese internal affairs an...

Editor’s Note: This is part of five-day series looking at the top stories from 2021 and what we can expect in 2022. The series will be published Dec. 26-30. Law enforcement agencies in Guernsey County are preparing for the daily demands they will face next year after a busy 2021. Guernsey County Sheriff Jeff Paden said his office's top priority is continuing to provide the tools necessary t...

A Scrooge driving a big Ford pickup wasn’t in the Christmas spirit while shopping in Kalispell. He cursed at a woman and nearly hit her with his door after he was asked not to park in the employee lot. A caller reported that a woman driving a Subaru Tribeca allegedly drove through a ditch and ran over a snowman before coming to a stop at a gas station. Realizing that multiple people reported ...

New police reform laws subject of town hall  Lewiston Morning Tribune

China adopted a new national law Friday for protecting wetlands. Under the new framework, land reclamation and drainage on wetlands will be generally prohibited, as well as the permanent blockage of water sources to natural wetlands. Other prohibited activities include the pollution of wetlands through the discharge of industrial or sewage wastewater and through excessive fertilization or pes...

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Art Van Zee has dealt with substance abuse treatment in far Southwest Virginia for two decades. Wise County Commonwealth’s Attorney Chuck Slemp III is in his sixth year of dealing with rising methamphetamine abuse and commercial-scale distribution cases. Both men agree that meth marks a sea change in drug abuse after years of focus on opioid abuse. Van Zee became a national figure earlier thi...

A proposed state law would require state regulators to define amounts of every possible pollutant that legally enter waterways, rather than allowing them respond to all spills and determine their severity. (Associated Press File) Pennsylvania environmental law requires anyone who dumps something toxic or potentially toxic into a waterway to report it to the Department of Environmental Protect...

Atlantic Beach, N.C. TO THE EDITOR: 300x250 image ad The “Rule of Law” is a term that is often used but difficult to define. It seems the Rule of Law is more of an idea, doctrine, principle, guide, or belief that we strive to achieve. Arbitrary rules have increasingly become the norm in our present-day society. The Rule of Law is used to voice or express that no one is above the law and no on...