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ExpandMissing Child Madison Taylor SAINT PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Florida Department of Law Enforcement has issued a missing child alert for a missing 13-year-old. According to FDLE, Madison Taylor was last seen at the intersection of 34th Street and 1st Avenue South in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Taylor was last seen wearing a pink T-shirt and black leggings with skulls on the side. Read: 8 de...

Labor Law: A white man awarded $10 million in damages is a reminder that employers can't discriminate in the name of diversity  Richmond Times-Dispatch

The exterior of UC Hastings College of the Law building in San Francisco. The legacy of the school’s founder, Serranus Clinton Hastings, includes profiting off the killings and displacement of Native Americans in Northern California. The UC Hastings College of the Law, California’s first law school, will soon no longer bear the name of its founder, Serranus Clinton Hastings, whose legacy i...

There’s no doubt life during the COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on the family dynamic. And the pandemic has had an even bigger impact on family law cases. A new survey from the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML) shows that closing family law courts during the pandemic has increased pent-up demand for divorce, and 45% of those surveyed believe the main reason for the upswing in thei...

Community and conservation groups say the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission violated the state open meetings law when it didn’t allow the public to attend its tours of oil and gas sites in western Colorado. Members of conservation groups say the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission illegally kept the public and media out of tours of oil and gas sites and one group says it w...

A Bryan man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for the death of his brother-in-law two years ago. Deryl Jackson, Jr. (Brazos Co. Jail) 43-year-old Deryl Jackson, Jr. was convicted of Manslaughter by a Brazos County jury on Wednesday, and was sentenced on Friday. Prosecutors accused Jackson of stabbing his brother-in-law, Jevelle Kinley, with a kitchen knife during an altercation at the ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed the law "On the prevention of threats to national security associated with the excessive influence of persons who have significant economic or political weight in public life (oligarchs)." The head of state announced this on Twitter, Ukrinform reports. "Democracy is law and equality. I signed an anti-oligarchic law that radically changes the r...

Special to Fort Myers News-Press Q: I live in a townhome. My neighbors recently installed outdoor lighting in their back lanai. Bright lights flood into my home and are becoming a serious annoyance. Can my association request that my neighbors have their lights dimmed or removed to stop this nuisance? (T.S., via e-mail). A: I would suggest starting by speaking with your neighbor to attempt t...

"We always joked about it," said coroner Raymond Kern. "Then it happened" Today at 3:00 AM The Denver Post CHEYENNE COUNTY, Colo. — The coroner is now the top law enforcement official in Cheyenne County thanks to a 144-year-old Colorado law that elevated him to the position after the sitting sheriff was arrested on a domestic violence charge then arrested again for asking his deputies to chec...

Kiel Brennan-Marquez will direct UConn Law's new Center of Community Safety, Policing and Inequality. HARTFORD — Law professors and students at UConn have goals to shape the local, state and national conversation about policing. Last week, the University of Connecticut School of Law announced the creation of the Center of Community Safety, Policing and Inequality to rethink community safety a...