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Law student Mike Blochberger, left, and Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association Pro Bono Coordinator Kristin Clarens, center, confer with an Afghan refugee seeking to get loved ones out of Afghanistan. (Photo by Julia Davis) his summer, the world watched harrowing scenes of desperate families trying to get out of Afghanistan before the government fell to the Taliban. In the Charlottesville ...

A West Virginia state law that would allow workers to apply for medical or religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine to avoid losing their job is now waiting to go into effect. (Sinclair Broadcast Group) CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WCHS) — A West Virginia state law that would allow workers to apply for medical or religious exemptions to the COVID-19 vaccine to avoid losing their job is now waiting ...

Polling shows that the law had popular support in Italy The Italian parliament on Wednesday rejected a broad anti-homophobia law. The law would have made homophobia a crime that is treated similarly to racism, allowing for prison sentences for offenders. It sought to punish acts of discrimination and incitement to violence against gay, lesbian, transgender and disabled people. In the Senate, ...

RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - The Reno City Council is taking steps to crack down on the theft of vehicle catalytic converters. Thieves are stealing the devices and selling them for the rare, precious metals inside them. Newer Toyota Priuses are a prime target, but any vehicle can be at risk. When the thieves cut the catalytic converters from the vehicle, the owner is left repair bills that can cost th...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine -- May 31, 2021 -- Flags fly by veterans' graves on Memorial Day at Fairmount Cemetery in Presque Isle. (Paula Brewer | The Star-Herald) AUGUSTA, Maine — A new law will help Maine cemeteries with upkeep and maintenance costs by providing a nonprofit sales and use tax exemption. Sponsored by Rep. Joseph Underwood (R-Presque Isle), LD 401, “An Act To Provide a Sales and Use ...

An amendment to the Health Care Right of Conscience Act that allows an employer to fire a worker for noncompliance with COVID-19 vaccine or test requirements surfaced on Oct. 25 ahead of the final three scheduled days of legislative action this year. That bill language was introduced in the General Assembly on Monday as Gov. JB Pritzker announced a new partial vaccine agreement with the state...

'We have seen kind of the erosion of trust with communities and police,' O’Bryant said. Patrick O’Bryant The Tallahassee City Council voted 5-0 to approve Mayor John Dailey’s new appointment to the City’s Citizens Police Review Board during Wednesday’s meeting. Patrick O’Bryant, 28, will be filling a vacancy left open after Tom Napier resigned on July 17. O’Bryant is a Harvard Law graduate an...

Mont-Carmel Cemetery in Lille nestles into the side of a hill draped in fall foliage. (Hannah Catlin | St. John Valley Times) AUGUSTA, Maine — A new law will help Maine cemeteries with upkeep and maintenance costs by providing a nonprofit sales and use tax exemption. Sponsored by Rep. Joseph Underwood (R-Presque Isle), LD 401, “An Act To Provide a Sales and Use Tax Exemption for Certain Nonpr...

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to a New York law that shows the racist roots of gun control laws, Jacob Sullum writes. After his home was bombed in 1956, Martin Luther King Jr. applied for a permit to carry a gun. Despite the potentially deadly threats that King faced as a leader of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, the county sheriff, Mac Sim Butler, said no. Next week, the S...

A 2018 law requires doctors to report a list of 25 “complications … arising from” abortions, including “psychological complications” like anxiety. And they face criminal penalties if they fail to do so. An Indiana anti-abortion law that requires doctors to report a long list of supposed complications from abortion is taking effect. That’s after a federal appeals court decision that overturned...