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Valeen Hyde Valeen Hyde is a member of The Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division board of governors and the Jacksonville Bar Association Young Lawyers Section board of governors. Who or what inspired you to become a lawyer? I am a first-generation lawyer. After high school, I moved to Manhattan where I took a trademarks and copyright class that exposed me to the legal profession. I realized that...

The cancer that is hate is on the rise — the list of incidents grows ever longer, the victims more diverse, even technology has become an enabler. When a hate crime captures the public’s attention, the cry among those justifiably appalled is always: “Do something.” But the moment fades, an assault becomes just another assault — the racial epithet or ethnic slur, the permanent wound to the psy...

FILE — A Yakima Police Department patrol car. To the editor -- This is in response to the recent criticism of the Yakima police in their addressing the situation where the individual fired on them after shoplifting. If you fire on law enforcement, there are ramifications. Frankly, their reaction was very restrained, considering the circumstances. The continued weakening and demoralizing of ou...

As a pastor with the United Church of Christ, it is my life’s work to make the transformative teachings of Christianity real and accessible to all people. Jesus told us that the greatest commandment is love. Christians are tasked with loving our neighbors as ourselves – it is our highest duty. At my church we work hard to model this. We teach our children that God loves them and they are his ...

Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the recent enactment of legislation (S.6950/A.7667) that makes it unlawful to disrupt or fail to provide essential services and habitability for interim multiple dwelling units and allows tenants to pursue a claim in New York City Housing Court. This bill makes in unlawful for any loft owner to interrupt, deny, or discontinue essential services or create ...

Maine police chief: 'Negative media attention' playing a role in officer shortage 00:00 00:0003:40GO LIVE Facebook Twitter Email Embed SpeedNormal Autoplay FIRST ON FOX: A nonprofit committed to defending law enforcement officers who are charged — sometimes wrongfully — in controversial use-of-force cases has launched an online police simulator to help educate the public on the rapid, life...

Dec 7 (Reuters) - A senior Myanmar junta official said on Tuesday the imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi showed that no one was above the law and the army chief had commuted her sentence on "grounds of humanity". Information minister Maung Maung Ohn also told a virtual briefing that Myanmar's judicial system was impartial and Monday's sentencing of the Nobel laureate and former leader was accor...

The region's largest pork producer is denying claims made in a federal lawsuit that it violated state laws about biometric privacy — and is challenging the law itself as being unconstitutionally vague. Former employee Rene Reyes sued The Maschhoffs LLC in U.S. District Court in Springfield in September. Reyes accuses the company of violating state law on biometrics — physical characteristics ...

(Reuters) -A senior Myanmar junta official said on Tuesday the imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi showed that no one was above the law and the army chief had commuted her sentence on "grounds of humanity". Information Minister Maung Maung Ohn also told a virtual briefing that Myanmar's judicial system was impartial and Monday's sentencing of the Nobel laureate and former leader was according to...

A Kalispell woman complained to the Flathead County Sheriff's Office that her husband made her tone-deaf reportedly after blasting low- and high-pitched tones from somewhere and said she felt gaslighted and unwelcome in her own home. A Kila woman allegedly found a man staring at her through a window on her door. Dispatchers answered a call from Lakeside and heard a man and woman yelling and a...