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Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Photo by: Getty Images <p> Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images </p> KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City law firm Stueve Siegel Hanson has gifted the University of Missouri $1 million to create two scholarship funds dedicated to supporting Black law students and journalism students from countries with "underdeveloped media." Each fund will contain $500,00...

EDENTON, N.C. (WAVY) — A new law prohibiting a popular vehicle modification is now in effect in North Carolina. The “Carolina Squat” law (NCGS 20-135.4) prohibits a private passenger vehicle (including those registered out-of-state) from being operated in or upon a highway or public vehicular area if the height of the front fender of the automobile is, by alteration of the suspension, frame, ...

Meghan Cocci Partner, Global Co-Chair of the Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Industry Group Latham & Watkins Meghan Cocci stands out among top L.A.-based real estate lawyers for her successful stewardship of Latham & Watkins’ Global Hospitality, Gaming & Leisure Industry Group through a highly tumultuous time for the industry. Within weeks of her arrival at the firm in January ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) – Lantz Garrett, father of 2-year-old Malakai Garrett, who died four years ago at the hands of his mother’s boyfriend, still talks to his son at his grave. “Nobody should have to endure what I go through on a day-to-day basis,” Garrett said in an interview this week. “There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think of him.” Malakai Garrett But his grief over a situat...

Carol Tracy, executive director of the Women’s Law Project, announced this week that she will retire in June. The Pennsylvania nonprofit that acted as co-counsel in the landmark Supreme Court case that affirmed a woman’s right to undergo an abortion before fetal “viability” is searching for a new leader. After 31 years at the helm of the Women’s Law Project, Carol Tracy announced this week sh...

CONTACT: Barbara Burns PHONE: (716) 843-5817 FAX #: (716) 551-3051 BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Donyell Williams, 27, of Michigan, who was convicted of high-speed flight from an immigration checkpoint, was sentenced to serve six months home confinement and two years’ probation by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. ...

Dec 1 (Reuters) - Opening statements got underway on Wednesday in a lawsuit challenging the legality of California's law requiring publicly held companies to include women on their boards, a case that will test the state's authority to address disparities in corporate power. Three California taxpayers will seek to show the law amounts to sex discrimination in violation of the state's constitu...

An anonymous Redditor has taken to the site's "Am I the A**hole" forum following a spat with her sister-in-law over the care of her brother. The post has gone viral, amassing over 10,000 upvotes and 2,800 comments. According to the post, the 32-year-old Redditor, known as u/ThrowraBrother30, has a brother who became wheelchair-bound in an accident four years ago. Since then, his wife has been...

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said Wednesday that federal law prohibiting cash-only cannabis businesses from using banks must be changed. Despite recreational marijuana being legal in 18 states and the District of Columbia, it is still classified as a Schedule I narcotic under federal law. Banks that provide services to cannabis companies — even in states where they operate legally — c...

New juvenile justice "Minimum Age" law takes effect RALEIGH, N.C. (WECT) - The new North Carolina “Minimum Age” law that raises the lower age of juvenile jurisdiction from six to 10 for most youth went into effect Wednesday, December 1. As a result of the North Carolina Senate Bill 207 being signed into law August 30, 2021 to increase the minimum age and provide appropriate mental health asse...