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MT. VERNON, Mo. (KY3) - Lawrence County voters will decide whether the county should construct a new jail and sheriff’s office. If voters approve the 3/8 cent law enforcement tax on November 2, construction will begin for a new 120-bed facility. The current Lawrence County jail was built in the 1980s. Staff says it is overcrowded. The county staffs nearly half of its prisoners in other counti...

Supporters of gun control and firearm safety measures hold a protest rally outside the Supreme Court in 2019. For nearly all its history, the Supreme Court kept its distance from gun policy. Now it’s about to decide a case that could radically reduce the government’s power to regulate guns. The Second Amendment states explicitly that it exists to protect “a well regulated Militia,” and unt...

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM - OCTOBER 21: Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks to media as he attends the EU Leaders’ Summit on October 21, 2021 in Brussels, Belgium. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images Poland on Wednesday was ordered to pay 1 million euros ($1.16 million) for every day it fails to comply with a ruling from the EU’s top court, in the latest flareup of tensions b...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WJRT) - Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is meeting with Saginaw-area law enforcement officials Wednesday to pitch the first two pillars of her MI Safe Communities plan. Whitmer is meeting with Saginaw County Sheriff William Federspiel, Michigan State Police First Lt. Todd Parsons, Saginaw Police Chief Robert Ruth, Buena Vista Township Police Chief Reggie Williams, Saginaw Mayor Brenda M...

In February, Oregon rolled out a nation-leading experiment in its approach to drug use. After decades of punishing users with arrest and potential jail time — an expensive approach that produced inequitable outcomes for people of color — voters last year decided low-level drug possession should no longer be a crime. It was a dramatic step sold with a promise: By treating addiction as a public...

East Point, Georgia — A grand jury on Tuesday returned an eight-count indictment against two law enforcement officers in connection with the 2016 killing of a man shot 76 times during an attempted fugitive arrest in the Atlanta area. Eric Heinze, an assistant chief inspector with the U.S. Marshal's Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, and Kristopher Hutchens, a Clayton County police office...

The new center will support policy-focused scholarship, host events, and advise efforts toward reform The new The new interdisciplinary center will help shape the national conversation on policing and community safety (Leonard Blanks/UConn Photo). The University of Connecticut School of Law has established the Center on Community Safety, Policing and Inequality to bring innovative research, i...

Violent protesters tear through Portland, cause more than $500K in damages While the nightly Antifa riots and marches have become more sporadic in Portland, residents and business owners are now in even more danger. Thanks to a recently implemented law, the Portland police are more hamstrung than ever in stopping the violence. Oregon Democrats passed over a dozen so-called police reform bills...

The Dutch firm ASML spent $9 billion and 17 years developing a way to keep making denser computer chips. The upper module of ASML’s next generation EUV machine was built from a 17-ton piece of milled aluminum. Patrick Whelan peers through the faceplate of his clean-room bunny suit to see how things are going. Before him is a gleaming chunk of glass, roughly the size of a toaster oven, that is...

The Filly Gentlemen’s Club, formerly the Filly Corral, in South Huntingdon. A North Huntingdon exotic dancer wants a local adult night club to pay her more than $58,000 in back wages she says she is owed because the club misclassified her employment status. Deanna Betras, 41, alleges the owners of the former Filly Corral in South Huntingdon — Oli-Car Inc. — violated the Fair Labor Standards A...