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Fans of "Law & Order: Organized Crime" may see a familiar backdrop in Thursday night's episode. In the fall, the cast and crew for the police drama spent several days in Fort Lee filming in locations around town, including The Regency apartment complex on Center Avenue. During filming, makeup and wardrobe trailers were set up in the municipal parking lot. The episode they were working on ...

Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez joined by Senior Policy Director at the New York Immigration Coalition Theodore Moore during a press conference on the steps of City Hall on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. (Staten Island Advance) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — An estimated 900,000 non-citizens moved one step closer Thursday to being able to vote in local elections. Mayor Bill de Blasio has expressed trepidations a...

MGM/New Line Cinema Become smarter in just 5 minutes Get the daily email that makes reading the news actually enjoyable. Stay informed and entertained, for free. A new law announced Thursday in New Zealand would ban anyone born after 2008 from ever purchasing cigarettes in the country. So the kids hanging out behind the gas station will have to what—talk to each other? The law, which is expec...

Image by WikimediaImages from Pixabay. WASHINGTON — The leader of Amtrak told a U.S. House panel Thursday that the recently enacted infrastructure law made great strides to solving the passenger rail system’s financial woes and placed it on equal footing with other modes of transportation. Democrats on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s rail subcommittee and Amtrak Execut...

As if being an animated series isn't enough reason for The Simpsons to be detached from reality, patriarch Homer Simpson has racked up countless injuries that would be fatal for a real person, but that hasn't stopped law firm DTLA Law Group from compiling some of the figure's most brutal experiences to calculate how much he'd really owe in medical bills. Their calculations put Homer's bills a...

Photo by Nataliya Vaitkevich on <a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/digital-blood-sugar-meter-with-injections-and-medication-6941883/" rel="nofollow">Pexels.com</a> A 36-year-old Ohio man’s death from diabetic ketoacidosis has prompted several states to pass new insulin access laws, and his father appealed to lawmakers here Monday to add Massachusetts to the list. Calling into a...

California is temporarily blocked from enforcing a law to curb “pay-for-delay” settlements in drug patent cases, after a federal judge found the law is likely unconstitutional. Judge Troy L. Nunley in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California ordered a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the law, Assembly Bill 824, in an order filed Thursday. Signed into law in...

A Maryland law requiring publishers to distribute digital works to public libraries is an “unauthorized, unprecedented” violation of the U.S. Copyright Act, the American Association of Publishers Inc. is alleging in a federal lawsuit in the state. The law, which requires publishers to distribute electronic books and other digital literary works to public libraries in the state in certain time...

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Recently, a federal jury in Kansas rejected a fraud lawsuit brought by Ad Astra Recovery Services, a debt collector and credit furnisher, against Lexington Law, Progrexion, and several attorneys and credit repair professionals affiliated with Lexington and Progrexion. Ad Astra's case centered on letters that Lexington prepared and submitted on its ...

WASHINGTON—The Federal Bureau of Investigation might have to eliminate a program that aims to track how often law-enforcement officers across the U.S. use force against citizens because too few agencies have submitted their statistics, according to a newly released government watchdog report. Spurred by a series of high-profile police killings of Black people and minorities, the FBI in 2016 s...