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FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, file photo, anti-abortion demonstrators pray and protest outside of a Whole Women's Health of North Texas, in McKinney, Texas. Foes of the strict abortion ban passed in Texas are taking aim at companies that donated money to the bill’s sponsors, hoping consumers will pressure corporate America to join the fight against a surge of abortion restrictions. (AP...

A Black Essex County dentist driving a luxury car said he was stopped more than 100 times by police in the 1990's. He never received a ticket. A Black state assemblywoman, approached by a trooper at a Garden State Parkway rest stop, felt targeted and uncomfortable when the trooper accused her of littering, though there was no trash around her car. That woman went on to become New Jersey’s fir...

Longview ISD: State law gives superintendent authority to issue mask mandate  Longview News-Journal

The BCA has identified the law enforcement personnel who discharged their weapons during an officer involved shooting incident that occurred during a standoff on Oct. 11 at an apartment complex in Oakdale. All are on standard administrative leave. Woodbury Police Department Officer Robert Boleen has been in law enforcement for six years. Officer Boleen discharged less lethal ammunition. Wash...

BUTLER COUNTY, IOWA – Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is grilling the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and the FBI about each agency’s work with the Commerce Department’s Investigations and Threat Management Service (ITMS)—which has operated as a federal law enforcement and intelligence unit without legal authority. Grassley is askin...

Court pauses new Montana Colstrip law  Billings Gazette

Dejon Satterwhite, 32, was previously convicted of multiple felonies including first-degree murder and attempted premeditated murder for a trio of gang-related shootings in 2004 A man previously sentenced to prison for murder, then released last year because of changes to state law regarding juvenile defendants, has been sentenced to six years in prison for robbing and stabbing a stranger in ...

Iowa Secretary of State meets with eastern Iowa law enforcement to promote Safe at Home  kwwl.com

Commemorative wreaths were placed at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., Tuesday morning for Trooper Justin Schaffer, pictured at right, and Trooper S. Renee Padgett. Remembered: A Candlelight Vigil Will Be Broadcast Thursday Afternoon The name of a local Washington State Patrol trooper who was killed by a fleeing driver in March 2020 in Chehalis has been...

The Story of Henrietta Lacks and the Biotechnology Company Accused of Selling Her Cells for Profit - These two articles (Newsweek and Fierce Biotech) describe the new lawsuit by the Henrietta Lacks Estate surrounding the HeLa cell line. The claim is "unjust enrichment," a difficult claim to win, but one that seems to fit this case, if any does. If you don't know this story, I recommend The Im...