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Texas lawmakers are considering legislation that would give workers legal grounds to refuse COVID-19 vaccine mandates for "reasons of conscience" — and to sue their employers if they don't agree. The measure would codify Gov. Greg Abbott's ban on vaccine mandates into state law. "The bill would let employees opt out of vaccine requirements by their employers for medical reasons or on grounds ...

What You Need to Know Big Law firms are increasingly pushing for more days per week in the office than not, aggregated Am Law 200 data suggests. According to data gathered by nQ Zebraworks, the most popular target date for returning to the office already occurred in September. Eager to return to the office, Big Law firms like Duane Morris and Blank Rome imposed some form of a vaccine requir...

Jessica Burstein/NBC via Everett Collection As soon as Wolf Entertainment announced that the original Law & Order will soon return to NBC, fans started speculating about which stars will come back for the 21st season. (Anthony Anderson, who played Junior Detective Kevin Bernard from Season 18 to Season 20, said recently that he “did have a conversation” with Dick Wolf, the creator of t...

Chelsea Finch, 28 (Jackson Co. Sheriff's Office) TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - A woman, who had been found hiding from deputies in a ceiling in 2018 and led officers on a chase in Shawnee Co. in 2020, was arrested on Wednesday night after she led law enforcement on another chase, which spanned two counties. Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse says a Powhattan woman is behind bars after a two-county car ...

Tuolumne County Sheriff's Office Logo Update at 10am: The Tuolumne County Sheriff’s Office reports that deputies are now clearing the scene and leaving after responding to a home in the 13000 block of Hoyito Circle in La Grange. A heavy amount of law enforcement personnel has been staged there throughout the morning. The sheriff’s office reports that it was determined that no crimes were comm...

Florida counties will require more than $140,000 in added funding to meet requirements of a new election law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to a survey of the state’s election officials. To cover the additional costs, some smaller counties are reducing the number of ballot drop-off boxes, making voting less convenient. Despite conducting a seemingly flawless presidential election last...

Multiple U.S. and Canadian partner agencies planned and executed four large-scale interagency, binational operations throughout the summer. The various maritime law enforcement and security missions were held to deter illicit activities in the region, uphold multi-agency interoperability, and to ensure mission capabilities throughout the Puget Sound, San Juan Islands, and Strait of Juan de ...

Recently retired state Supreme Court Justice Barbara J. Vigil, right, appears at a news conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, as Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham looks on earlier this year. In her first public address Oct. 12, Vigil, the new leader of New Mexico's child protection department pledged to restore the agency's credibility, and support new legislation that would increase accountability a...

The Houston skyline on Dec. 17, 2018. HOUSTON – U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery and several leaders from various federal and local law enforcement agencies are expected to hold a news conference Thursday to announce what it calls “a significant event” and other information about what it says is the prevalence of violent crime in the Houston area. The news conference will be held at 1 p.m. Wa...

The Federal Bureau of Investigation recently released data which showed there were 186 hate crimes reported in Indiana in 2020, more than double the amount that was reported the previous year. But Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said the increase likely occurred because more people are reporting these crimes than ever before. Mears’ office launched a hate crime hotline earlier this year a...