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(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri lawmaker is planning to introduce a new bill that he claims will strengthen the state’s “stand your ground” law. Sen. Eric Burlison (R-Battlefied) pre-filed the legislation Wednesday. It would grant a person criminal immunity for using deadly force in self-defense unless the force is used against a law enforcement officer in...

(WKRG) — Wednesday afternoon, two Wilcox County sheriff’s deputies responding to a domestic violence call were shot. One deputy, Madison Nicholson, died while being transported to a Mobile hospital. Law enforcement agencies across the region are posting tributes to the fallen deputy and offering their words of support to the Wilcox County Sheriff’s Office. The Eufala Police Department posted ...

Former president Donald Trump this week asked a federal judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit filed against him by E. Jean Carroll — a writer who says Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s — citing a new state law intended to protect free speech. Trump’s request cited a new “anti-SLAPP” law passed in New York state last year. The law, which was signed last year, is intended to stop “Strat...

New COVID cases among Northeast Tennessee kids are about double their level of a month ago and have continued climbing since Gov. Bill Lee signed a law limiting schools’ power to quarantine or isolate students. JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) – When her board members asked Johnson County School Superintendent Mischelle Simcox Nov. 11 about whether the COVID-battered system wouldn’t be authorized t...

China’s new privacy law imposes heightened safeguards for the protection of personal information of its residents and may have extra-territorial application to organizations outside the country. The Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), which went into effect on November 1, 2021, will work together with China’s existing Cybersecurity Law (CSL) and Data Security Law (DSL) to establish a ...

The menorah is lit on the second night of Hanukkah at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston on Nov. 29, 2021. As Jewish communities across Massachusetts celebrate Hanukkah this week and use the Festival of Lights to shine awareness on rising anti-Semitism, Gov. Charlie Baker on Thursday signed a genocide education bill into law, a spokesman announced. The legislation requires middle sc...

Today, Rep. Cindy Axne (IA-03) announced that Iowa is receiving the first $110,745,000 investment from the bipartisan infrastructure law that she helped get signed into law last month. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funds are allocated through the State Revolving Fund (SRF) to upgrade Iowa’s aging water infrastructure and create jobs while addressing key challenges like lead in dr...

Local law enforcement officers took watch overnight and provided an escort Thursday to a fallen Alabama deputy killed in the line of duty. Madison "Skip" Nicholson, a retired deputy with 40 years of service with the Wilcox County Sheriff's Office in Alabama, was fatally shot Wednesday evening while responding to a domestic violence call in Yellow Bluff, Alabama, a small rural community 140 mi...

Infrastructure law set to boost Colorado's work tackling poverty and climate change  NPR

A bill that would change NJ Transit’s reform law by making a customer advocate more independent and giving riders more transparency was approved by the State Senate Thursday afternoon. The Senate voted 25-to-4 to approve the bill, which now must wait for the Assembly version of the same bill to go through the transportation committee and be sent to the full Assembly for a vote before it can g...