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Kayla Desroches / Yellowstone Public Radio Colstrip power plant Four out-of-state owners of the coal-fired power plant in Colstrip received temporary protection Wednesday from a Montana law the companies say inhibits them from making plans to close the plant’s two remaining units. A federal judge in Billings granted the Pacific Northwest-based owners a preliminary injunction against the l...

Las Vegas, NV - The Las Vegas National Bar Association (LVNBA) announced that the Nevada Attorney General's Office will be honored as the Law Firm of the Year at the Annual Scholarship Gala and Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Celebration. "I want to congratulate the AG Family for their hard work and service," said Attorney General Aaron D. Ford. "The recognition is due entirely to the work each rep...

This file photo shows the Colstrip coal-fired power plant in southeast Montana. (James Woodcock/Billings Gazette via AP) BILLINGS (AP) — A federal judge has temporarily blocked a Montana law that sought to prevent the closure of a coal-fired power plant by requiring its outgoing owners to pay for long-term maintenance and operating costs. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters said Wednesday the l...

BRITTANY Murphy asked if “she was dying” as her mother-in-law begged her to go to the hospital before the star’s tragic death. Just one day before the beloved actress shockingly passed away in 2009, she was urged to seek medical help from husband Simon Monjack’s mom, Linda, HBO’s new doc revealed. 5Mother-in-law Linda Monjack 'begged' Brittany to go to the hospital before she died Linda Monja...

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) - A simple phone call is making counties across the area a lot of money. Specifically calls from jail. Experts say law enforcement is putting profits over people – cashing in on the innocent families on the outside or worse isolating inmates whose families can’t afford the steep rates. I-Team’s Liz Owens uncovers the call for justice. Jail pay phone contracts bring in...

Maoist reeducation camps have nothing on Yale Law School. If you think this is an exaggeration, okay, it is, but keep reading. Last month, a second-year law student sent some classmates an invitation to a party — to celebrate Constitution Day, of all things. The student, Trent Colbert, who has the unusual profile of belonging to both the Native American Law Students Association (NALSA) and th...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – On Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of West Virginia, teamed up with the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General, the FBI, and West Virginia University held a symposium to discuss the case against Reta Mays. WVU College of Law Reta Mays was convicted and sentenced to prison back in May. She’s serving seven life terms plus 20 years ...

The Texas State Capitol rotunda, seen from below, is where state legislation is passed. Teachers wondered whether "Number the Stars," a Holocaust novel, would require an "opposing" perspective under the terms of a new education law there. (Tamir Kalifa/Getty Images) (JTA) — Teachers in a Texas school district were told last week that a new state law requiring them to present multiple perspect...

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for supporters of the Texas abortion law told a federal appeals court Thursday that the state was free to pass its law banning abortion after about six weeks because states can reach their own conclusions about whether abortion if constitutional. The filing in the 5th U.S. Court of Appeals completed the exchange of briefs in the Justice Department's lawsuit challenging th...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea did an about face Thursday on the causes of the city’s seemingly uncontrollable gun violence. While being grilled by lawmakers in Albany, Shea also had a tough time answering pointed questions from Assembly members representing the five boroughs, CBS2’s Marcia Kramer reported. It was probably a day Shea wished he’d stayed in bed, or at lea...