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PLATTE CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City man will not be charged after prosecutors said he killed two men over a load of firewood near Parkville earlier this year. A grand jury declined to indict the gunman because of Missouri’s ‘stand your ground law,’ according to the Platte County Prosecutor. “Missouri’s ‘stand your ground’ law means people do not have to retreat before using force to defend thems...

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A vial of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine sits on a table during a vaccination clinic at Bradley Air National Guard Base in Connecticut, April 18, 2021. (Steven Tucker/U.S. Air National Guard ) (Tribune News Service) — As the Kansas National Guard implements the first phase of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, a group of legislators is raising questions of potential conflict with state law. Rep. Pat Procto...

RUTHERFORD CO., Tenn. (WKRN) – A Tennessee judge illegally jailed children at a rate nearly 10 times higher than the state average – even when there was no crime committed, according to a report from WPLN and Propublica. Judge Donna Scott Davenport instituted a policy that all children charged with crimes be processed at the detention center, the report says. In 2016, 11 Black elementary scho...

(L-R)Curt Toll, Alex Scarola, and Nikki Lewis Simon of Greenberg Traurig. Courtesy photos Broadening the table for meaningful inclusion means more than refraining from excluding anyone. It translates into using positioning and experience to expand opportunity for all by growing leadership through a commitment to better cultivate and deploy a wider arsenal of talent. These efforts often reap e...

Hawaii recently enacted significant changes to its small-dollar lending law that repeals existing Hawaii law on deferred deposits and creates a new regime for installment loans. Although H.B. 1192 took effect on July 1, the repeal of the existing law on deferred deposits is effective January 1, 2022 as is the new licensing requirement for “installment lenders.” H.B. 1192 provides that, unless...

This summer, following two years of work toward a model state privacy law, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC) has entered the privacy debate by adopting The Uniform Personal Data Protection Act (the “Uniform Act”) by a vote of 52-1, with Maine being the only dissenting vote. The Uniform Act takes a different approach to privacy protection than existing legislation in California, Virginia and Co...

K-9 Nero. (WJAR) <p>{/p} (WJAR) — A Massachusetts bill that would provide protections for police K-9s has passed a senate committee. “The dog is an amazing tool, but it has a heart and it bleeds,” said longtime member of the Yarmouth Police Department, Rep. Steven Xiarhos. “If they are injured, they should be taken care of. They should be treated by the EMTs and the paramedics. They sho...