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Crime and Courts With funding finally in place, advocates are hopeful that the database will be particularly useful for quantifying the state's problem of missing and murdered Indigenous people. Ruth Buffalo of Fargo speaks about changing the name of Woodrow Wilson school during the Fargo School Board meeting in the Fargo South High Theatre on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. (David Samson / The Foru...

CNN legal analyst: A particular moment shaped the trial 02:45 Jennifer Rodgers is a former federal prosecutor, adjunct professor of clinical law at NYU School of Law, lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School and a CNN legal analyst. The opinions expressed here are her own. Read more opinion at CNN. (CNN)Kyle Rittenhouse, on trial this month for killing two unarmed men and injuring another durin...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed into law a map of new congressional districts on Saturday that will be in effect for the next four years, despite objections from Democrats and voting rights groups. DeWine said in a statement that, compared with other proposals from House and Senate lawmakers from both parties, the Senate legislation he signed “makes the most progress...

Russell McElroy, left, a member of the Bowling Green Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 13 who spearheaded the program to donate 70 gift cards worth $70 each to families in need of help with the cost of Thanksgiving meals, distributes the gift cards to Smiths Grove Police Officer Rick Bessette and other members of local law enforcement to deliver to the selected families on Saturday, Nov. 20...

FILE - In this July 13, 2021 file photo, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine promotes a new entrance ramp onto I-70 in downtown Columbus, Ohio. DeWine signed into law a map of new congressional districts on Saturday, Nov. 20, despite objections from Democrats and voting rights groups. The map will be in effect for the next four years. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins, File) COLUMBUS, Ohio – Republican Ohio G...

LOS ANGELES, November 20, 2021--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP ("GPM"), a leading national shareholder rights law firm, continues its investigation on behalf of Exicure, Inc. ("Exicure" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: XCUR) investors concerning the Company’s possible violations of the federal securities laws. If you suffered a loss on your Exicure investments or would like to inq...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a law protecting transgendered people. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed new legislation into law that will protect the LGBTQ+ community and gender pronouns. To celebrate “Transgender Awareness Week,” Hochul signed a pair of bills that relate to vacating convictions for offenses committed due to being a victim of sex trafficking, labor trafficking, or...

Michelle Heater, left, program director for Waymakers, speaks as the Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force presents its annual, Victim Report, during a news conference at the Anaheim Police Department earlier this year. Speakers include from left: Anaheim Police Chief Jorge Cisneros; Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer; Steven Sentman, Orange County Probation Department; Anne Bl...

FILE – Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee speaks to local media at the front of McConnell Elementary School on Aug. 11, 2021 in Hixson, Tenn. Emails obtained by The Associated Press show that Lee’s office warned top legislative staffers that a bill limiting public health measures during the COVID pandemic would violate federal law. They passed it anyway and the Republican governor signed it into law eve...

David Blair, a candidate for Montgomery County executive, joins a long tradition of election-season “law and order” fear-mongering in his opinion piece of Nov. 13 (“Rising violence, shrinking police force, declining morale are unsustainable trends”). He cherry-picks local data, omits national context, and ignores the root causes of conflict and violence. Each homicide is one too many. But Bla...