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Collier County schools will see an enhanced law enforcement presence Friday while the Collier County Sheriff’s Office investigates threats made on social media. CCSO says it is working to determine the source of the “statements made on social media that reference Collier County Public Schools,” with detectives following up on tips and community leads. People are encouraged to contact CCSO wit...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Rashawn Ray about the nuances and problems associated with citizen's arrest laws. SCOTT DETROW, HOST: In Brunswick, Ga., a high-profile murder trial is in its early stages. Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael and William Bryan are all accused of felony murder in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery. It happened in February 2020. Arber...

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In September, after Texas enacted the most restrictive abortion ban in the nation, the number of abortions performed there dropped 50 percent from the same month in 2020, according to data released Friday by a group of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin. The Texas law bans abortions after cardiac activity can be detected, which is generally when women are around six weeks pregna...

(Moment / Getty Images) The number of people with symptoms of depression and anxiety has nearly quadrupled during the covid pandemic, which has made it even more maddeningly difficult to get timely mental health care, even if you have good insurance. Asking Never Hurts A California law signed Oct. 8 by Gov. Gavin Newsom could help. It requires that mental health and substance abuse pati...

(Moment / Getty Images) The Supreme Court on Nov. 1 will hear oral arguments challenging the constitutionality of a new Texas abortion law — just days after agreeing to hear the case. That’s just one of many unusual things about the Texas law, which halted almost all abortions in the nation’s second-most populous state. The court plans to hear another major abortion case this fall: Justice...

Illinois Democrats who control the General Assembly finalized a new map for U.S. House districts shortly after midnight Thursday in party-line votes and emotional debates, sending the measure to Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker for his signature. The action was the last piece of legislation debated before lawmakers adjourned the fall "veto session." “This is a fair map, and it reflects the diversit...

Two people with “a lot of bad history” got into a fight because one suspected the other had let his dog defecate on the other person’s property. The caller said he “has not actually seen the dog do the deed, but he knows it is his neighbor’s dog.” The Kalispell Police Department instituted extra patrols in the area. A manager of a grocery store didn’t want to deal with any more “theatrics” fr...

UK will become first G20 country to make it mandatory for Britain’s largest businesses to disclose their climate-related risks and opportunities, in line with Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommendations new legislation will require firms to disclose climate-related financial information, with rules set to come into force from April 2022 follows publication of UK...