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Some rural EMS directors are looking toward a new state law to help train more volunteer medical responders and keep them on the job. The law allows counties to declare EMS an essential service like police or fire and collect taxes to pay for it. Julie Scadden is the ambulance service director for Dysart in east-central Iowa. Scadden says her department is depending on fundraisers and Medicar...

WKAR file photo / A bill signed into state law Wednesday is giving Michigan drivers more options when it comes to vehicle registration. The new law allows drivers to choose whether to renew their registration annually or request a new two-year registration. Sponsor state Rep. Steve Johnson (R-Wayland Twp) says the law has been five years in the making. “A lot of times government is hesit...

The House of Representatives passed the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which includes $550 billion in new spending, with the remainder of the funding extending current programs. This will be the largest investment in infrastructure since the 1950s during the Eisenhower administration. The infrastructure bill, which is one of President Biden's legislative priorities, is ...

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Who feels the most and the least secure worldwide? The Law and Order Index answers this based on people's reported confidence in their local police, whether they feel safe walking alone at night where they live and the incidence of theft and assault or mugging in the past year. The higher the score on the index, the higher the proportion of the population that reports feeling secure. How Safe...

New Jersey drivers face an array of penalties for hit and run accidents, including fines and possible jail time. One Garden State lawmaker is proposing similar types of punishments for a “bite and run” scenario, where a dog owner flees the scene if his pooch attacks someone. Assembly Republican leader Jon Bramnick, R-Union, is proposing a measure, A6036, that would make it a disorderly person...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Eligibility for medical marijuana in Ohio would be expanded to include any condition determined by a licensed physician to need treatment, under a new bill that would further expand the state’s medicinal marijuana program. The measure would also place regulation of the program solely under the Department of Commerce, removing the current, additional oversight by the stat...

By Kitty Block and Sara Amundson California’s Proposition 12 is considered the world’s strongest law for farm animals because it bans the sale of meat and eggs that come from animals in extreme confinement systems, like this pregnant pig seen here pushing her nose against the bars of her gestation crate. The HSUS Three years ago this month, something truly extraordinary happened for animals....

Moorestown Council adopted a resolution Monday night that helps widen the pool of potential candidates the police department can consider. Moorestown police are looking to add a 34th officer to the force following a resolution passed by council Monday night. (Jenna Fisher/Patch) MOORESTOWN, NJ — Moorestown Council made it easier for the Moorestown Police Department to fill a position it's bee...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Eligibility for medical marijuana in Ohio would be expanded to include any condition determined by a licensed physician to need treatment, under a new bill that would further expand the state's medicinal marijuana program. The measure would also place regulation of the program solely under the Department of Commerce, removing the current, additional oversight by the stat...