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Carrie Lam casts her ballot on Dec. 19. Photographer: Chan Long Hei/Bloomberg Hong Kong’s leader Carrie Lam touted plans to revive a controversial security law that ignited a political firestorm two decades ago, after completing an election to install a new legislature filled with Beijing loyalists. The pro-establishment council elected in a muted vote Sunday should present “new proposals” ...

Someone allegedly removed all the lug nuts off the rear passenger tire of a man’s truck, which was parked with a trailer on the street. The man told the Kalispell Police Department he almost lost a tire while driving and thought the incident might be the result of another dangerous TikTok challenge. A man walking around with a four-legged “little guy” reportedly dropped a bottle of booze and ...

Fetal bill advances amid abortion law threats  Observer-Reporter

Daviess Circuit Judge Jay Wethington conducts court on Friday in the Holbrook Judicial Center in Owensboro. “Marsy’s Law” didn’t invent victim’s rights in Kentucky. The rights of crime victims had long been part of state law before the General Assembly passed a “Marsy’s Law” bill and voters ratified the constitutional amendment in 2020. But what Marsy’s Law did was make crime victim’s rights ...

Dads on a Mission: A group of fathers want to help curb violence in DMPS schools DES MOINES, Iowa - Fed up with the number of fights at Des Moines Public School District, fathers are starting a new initiative called Dads on a Mission. "Even though my son is not a risk, he could be at risk because of other kids that are at risk. So I feel like I have to be a dad to all of them," said the...

The U.S. seems ready to give Clearview AI a patent as other countries demand the company deletes data on people within their borders. PHOENIX — France became the latest country to move demand Clearview AI delete data even as the United States seems to be on the verge of issuing the facial recognition software a patent. Clearview AI says it has scraped publicly accessible photos from all over...

Rules are a fact of life. They tell us to slow down, or to mask up. Like them or not, the rules are meant for all of us. Albuquerque’s Human and Ethical Animal Rules and Treatment – or HEART – ordinance impacts everyone in Albuquerque. In fact, when it comes to spaying or neutering dogs and cats, it impacts everyone in Bernalillo, Valencia, Sandoval, Santa Fe, Cibola and Torrance counties if ...

It seems that news has been full of interactions between police and civilians that have gone terribly wrong, even though those interactions are very rare. That’s one reason why the Shop With a Cop events conducted by the area’s police and sheriff’s departments are important. And it’s good to see police interaction in a positive light. For the most part, the men and women who make up our law e...

Credit: Zenzen/Shutterstock.com The lines in front of the COVID-19 testing center near my home in New York City wind around the block. New York and London are seeing spikes in positive cases and the omicron variant of the novel coronavirus is spreading around the world, putting hospitals near capacity, prompting countries to tighten their borders and disrupting travel plans right before the h...

On Friday, Dec. 17, the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office made public the results of a month-long multi-jurisdictional investigation that ended with eight search warrants and the recovery of about $800,000 worth of stolen goods in time to get those items back to their rightful owners for the New Year. Other law enforcement agencies that worked together on the initiative were the Forsyth County...