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BOSTON — Lawmakers have approved changes to the 2016 voter-approved law requiring larger enclosures for egg-laying chickens in a move aimed at averting egg shortages and a spike in prices when the law goes into effect next month. The referendum, which banned shelled eggs, veal and other meat produced by cage-confined farm animals, was approved by more than 77% of voters. But egg producers and...

In 2018, voters approved changes to the election code to make it easier to vote. (Pamela Au/Adobe Stock) A petition from the group "Secure MI Vote" is aiming to circumvent Michigan's regular legislative channels and pass laws restricting many residents' ability to vote. Lawmakers passed changes to the state's voter ID laws this year, but faced vetoes from the governor for requiring absentee b...

After pushing two long years for Laura’s Law to be passed by the Legislature and seeing it signed into law by Governor Charlie Baker last January, I thought my work was over trying to make a difference in my late wife’s name. I couldn’t have been more wrong. There was plenty more to do to implement the law. Since August, I have been meeting with a group of experts and concerned leaders — offi...

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

AppleInsider is supported by its audience and may earn commission as an Amazon Associate and affiliate partner on qualifying purchases. These affiliate partnerships do not influence our editorial content. Apple executive Nick Law, who serves as the company's vice president of marketing communications integration, is departing the tech giant a little over two years after joining it. Law's de...

The ACLU of Pennsylvania has been working on challenging the misuse of cash bail for years. In 2018, we sent a letter to Philadelphia courts, raising a number of concerns based on court observations of more than 2000 bail hearings and urging them to follow the rules when setting cash bail. In 2019, when it became clear that nothing had changed, we joined a coalition of advocates and filed a l...

On August 23, 2020, a white officer in the Kenosha Police Department shot Jacob Blake, a Black man, in the back, leaving him paralyzed. Protests erupted in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin suburb, and two nights later, Kyle Rittenhouse shot and killed two people and injured another amidst the unrest. More than 40 different local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies descended on the suburb of ...

Gov. JB Pritzker is shown here earlier this year in a Capitol News Illinois file photo. The governor signed more than 300 bills that become law on Jan. 1. (Capitol News Illinois file photo) Minimum wage hike, pets in public housing among new changes Capitol News Illinois [email protected] SPRINGFIELD – Minimum wage workers in Illinois will see a boost in their hourly pay to $1...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — 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 people who abused them and the groups wh...

A silver Jeep SUV tore through a parking lot, almost hitting one of the employees, and the driver laughed before leaving. In another location, a pickup was seen driving erratically, spinning doughnuts, sliding everywhere and revving its engine in a parking lot where kids normally hang out. A woman called officers claiming another woman parked “in her spot,” and was screaming at her. She did m...