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Item Correspondent BOLTON – The Nashoba Regional School Committee violated the state’s Open Meeting Law, the Attorney General’s office ruled in a recent determination. The ruling concerned a complaint filed regarding two of the board’s meetings – on Dec. 16 and Dec. 21, 2020 – in which the members discussed items not listed on the board’s agendas, specifically remote learning and winter spor...

NEW YORK — Billionaire investor Leon Black has escalated his battle against a former model who accused him of rape, filing a lawsuit on Thursday accusing her and her law firm of defamation and racketeering conspiracy. In the complaint, lawyers for the former Apollo Global Management Inc chief executive accused Guzel Ganieva and the Wigdor law firm of engaging in a “criminal enterprise,” inclu...

Members of the Warren City Council voted 5-2 to censure City Councilman Eddie Kabacinski Oct. 26 for the alleged “misuse of his position” during an encounter with Detroit police that led to his apparent arrest. Screenshot captured from TV Warren meeting video Warren City Council member detained by police in Detroit WARREN — Warren City Councilman Eddie Kabacinski has been censured by his pee...

The Virginia Department of Education offices are in the James Monroe Building in Richmond. (Parker Michels-Boyce/ For the Virginia Mercury) In 2020, the General Assembly passed a law requiring local school divisions to adopt model policies extending rights to transgender students. But even as debates over those policies have convulsed school board meetings across the state and been debated by...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signs the Reproductive Health Act during a ceremony at the Chicago Cultural Center in 2019. Gov. J.B. Pritzker vowed late Thursday to sign a bill repealing what Democrats in the General Assembly call “the last anti-abortion law” in Illinois — a move Democrats say will protect some of the most vulnerable in the state. “At a time when reproductive rights are under attack a...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — The Baltimore Police Department could soon become the highest-paid major law enforcement agency in Maryland. A new labor agreement will raise the starting salaries for new recruits to just over $60,000, and the package has other incentives. Some Baltimore residents are reacting to the news, with one man saying: “I think it’s long overdue, absolutely. These guys put their li...

FILE - In this Jan. 19, 2020, file photo, Newly sworn-in Illinois Senate President Don Harmon, D-Oak Park, delivers speaks after taking the oath of office in the Illinois Senate at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, Ill. Harmon, a Democrat from Oak Park, is sponsoring legislation to carve out an exception for the COVID-19 vaccination to the Illinois Health Care Right of Conscience Act...

DETROIT (AP) — The Michigan Supreme Court has agreed to look again at a law that allows communities to collect millions of dollars from poor criminal defendants. The money helps pay salaries, keep lights on and wax floors in courthouses up and down the state. The issue is whether it’s unconstitutional, especially when a judge knows a conviction will bring in cash and please local officials wh...

The San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and Police Department could soon be forced to provide the public with quarterly reports, that include never-before-released details about how the city prosecutes domestic violence offenders and how often. On Thursday, in a 2-0 vote, San Francisco lawmakers on the city’s Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee decided to advance the legisl...