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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania’s highest court on Tuesday hammered a final nail into the coffin of a proposed victims’ rights constitutional amendment that state voters supported by a large margin more than two years ago but has never gone into effect. The justices ruled 6-1 that the sprawling proposal violated the Pennsylvania Constitution’s requirement that amendments address a single ...

Gabriela Llamas of the Ampersand Pantry Project and Aimee McKinney of Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig distribute donated gifts to families. Santa Claus is getting some help from his toy shop in Loudoun County this holiday season. The law firms Burnett Williams and Dunlap Bennett & Ludwig partnered with the Ampersand Pantry Project to collect toys and gifts for 82 families in need, and distrib...

Santa poses with Madawaska Police Officer Dennis Picard as students wrap up their presents in Madawaska on Dec. 16. Law enforcement hosted kids on a Shop with a Cop outing. (Emily Jerkins | St. John Valley Times) MADAWASKA, Maine — Local law enforcement teamed up to spread a little Christmas cheer by taking children along to Shop with a Cop. Shop with a Cop is a nationwide, annual event with ...

OCONTO – Oconto County will set aside $5 million of its fund balance to help pay off the debt incurred by constructing a new sheriff’s office and jail, the county board decided Dec. 17. County officials said the move is to lower future interest costs. The county issued $10 million in bonds on July 2, 2015, and another $15 million in bonds on Feb. 14, 2016. The first issue will have a balance ...

VALENCIA COUNTY, N.M. – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a $479 million bill aimed at allocating federal funding to various projects throughout the state. House Bill 2 includes $50 million to build a hospital in Valencia County, a project the governor advocated for during the special session. “My administration is committed to making sure that every New Mexican has access to top-notch medic...

(WHAM photo) Rochester, N.Y. — East High School students got some insight into careers in law enforcement Tuesday in a unique way. Deputies from the Monroe County Sheriff's Office and staff from Tocsin Media & Marketing visited after school. The students and deputies had some fun playing video games. "It gives them an opportunity to ask questions in a more laid-back social setting, and th...

The N.C. Supreme Court building in Raleigh (File) RALEIGH — A North Carolina law cannot temporarily lift the statute of limitations to allow people who were sexually abused as children decades ago to be able to sue in civil court, a three-judge panel ruled on Monday. The measure, which had passed the state legislature unanimously in 2019, was designed to help child sex abuse victims sue the p...

Christina Rinnert As Christina Rinnert tells it, if it weren’t for Marc Miller, dean and Ralph W. Bilby professor of law at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, she wouldn’t be fulfilling her dream of working as an attorney, representing victims of domestic violence. Miller’s advocacy was the catalyst for the American Bar Association first allowing law schools to accept t...

Fox News Flash top headlines for December 21 00:00 00:0002:55GO LIVE Facebook Twitter Email Embed SpeedNormal Autoplay A seemingly innocent meeting between a South Dakota man and his local police chief to exchange a Christmas card devolved into a conversation with an accused murderer when the man admitted to the top cop: "I snapped," recent court papers show. Milbank resident Brent Hanson ...

The Parliament of India Tuesday passed the Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021 for linking electoral roll data and voter identity cards with the government’s digital identity database. The bill authorizes electoral registration officers to demand voters to furnish their unique Aadhaar number for ascertaining their identity and preventing voter fraud. The bill requires all persons with their ...