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Alex Murdaugh, a disgraced attorney and former volunteer prosecutor from a powerful Democratic South Carolina legal family, pleaded the fifth last week, refusing to incriminate himself in a lawsuit alleging he embezzled millions from a prominent law firm founded by his great-grandfather. The motion filed Friday in Colleton County says Murdaugh admits to the allegations contained in the first ...

NORTON, MASS. (WHDH) - A Norton police officer was arrested over the weekend on a charge of operating under the influence and placed on leave after officials say he fled the scene of a crash that left a woman injured — and prosecutors asked for a warrant to be issued after he initially failed to appear in court Monday. Officers responding to a report of a crash at the intersection West Main S...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Hospitals in Slovakia, one of Europe's least-vaccinated nations, have been filling up with coronavirus patients, with the northeastern region of Presov reporting almost no spare intensive care beds, authorities and hospitals said on Monday. President Zuzana Caputova has signed a law allowing the government to force unvaccinated people to test twice a week before attending w...

Medical staff are seen as the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination continues at the University Hospital, in Nitra, Slovakia January 11, 2021. REUTERS/Radovan Stoklasa PRAGUE, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Hospitals in Slovakia, one of Europe's least-vaccinated nations, have been filling up with coronavirus patients, with the northeastern region of Presov reporting almost no spare intensive care be...

ManagementPhysicalSecurity NewswirePhysical SecurityVideo Surveillance President Biden signed into law the Secure Equipment Act of 2021. The bipartisan Secure Equipment Act of 2021 aims to empower the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to restrict equipment authorization to companies — such as the People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-backed firms Huawei and ZTE — on the agency’s “Co...

Bernstein Shur is No. 1 and Drummond Woodsum is No. 2 on the Mainebiz list of Maine's largest law firms, ranked by total attorneys in the state. Both firms have Portland headquarters, shown here. From energy law to cannabis law consulting, business is booming for Maine's largest law firms, as reflected in rankings just released by Mainebiz. The 2021 list, published in the Nov. 15 print editio...

President Biden at the White House on Friday.Credit...Stefani Reynolds for The New York Times President Biden on Monday will celebrate a key victory in his legislative agenda — and the fulfillment of a central promise of his 2020 campaign — by signing into law a $1 trillion infrastructure spending bill at the White House, surrounded by lawmakers from both parties who backed the measure. But t...

Student Khaza Edwards-Lowe feels a book while listening to a guest reader during Children’s Defense Fund’s Freedom School Wednesday, June 30, 2021, in Union Springs, Ala. CDF Freedom School is a research-based and multicultural program summer enrichment program for school children. (Julie Bennett | [email protected]) Julie Bennett | [email protected] This is an opinion column. It sounded like a good id...

FILE – Motorist traveling southbound on Interstates 90 and 94 for Indiana approach the intersection with Interstate 55 for St. Louis, Dec. 21, 2017, in Chicago. The $1 trillion infrastructure bill that President Joe Biden signs into law on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021, represents a historic achievement at a time of deeply fractured politics. But the compromises needed to bridge the political divid...

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech during a visit to the Port of Baltimore, Maryland, November 10, 2021. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters President Joe Biden will sign the more than $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill into law on Monday, checking off the first piece of his party’s sprawling economic agenda. The package will put $550 billion in new funds into transportation, broadband...