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A South Florida woman is fighting to pass “Greyson’s Law” after her 4-year-old son was killed by his father earlier this year in a murder-suicide. A South Florida woman is fighting to pass “Greyson’s Law” after her 4-year-old son was killed by his father earlier this year in a murder-suicide. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Greyson Kessler, 4, was killed in May by his own father in a horrific murder...

Most voters will experience Georgia’s new voting law for the first time when they cast their ballots in races for mayor and city council across the state. Early voting hours will change in some counties. Absentee voting comes with more stringent ID requirements and deadlines. Ballot drop boxes will be limited. This fall’s elections are a test of the voting law passed by the General Assembly i...

FILE – In this Aug. 10, 2021, file photo, recently retired state Supreme Court Justice Barbara J. Vigil, right, appears at a news conference in Santa Fe, N.M., as Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham looks on. In her first public address Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, Vigil, the new leader of New Mexico’s child protection department pledges to restore the agency’s credibility, and support new legislation t...

Nets superstar Kyrie Irving is set to miss the upcoming 2021-22 NBA season after the Nets declared that Irving would not be allowed to participate in any team activities until he becomes fully eligible in accordance with local COVID-19 policies. Irving initially was to be ruled out of all games in the New York market, as unvaccinated Knicks and Nets players are not allowed to play home games ...

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has been working to change the Health Care Right of Conscience Act, which some have invoked in the fight against COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The 1998 Health Right of Conscience Act bans discrimination because of such persons’ refusal to receive or participate in any way in any particular form of healthcare services contrary to his or her conscience. Some have said the law al...

A screenshot of the Fairhope Film Festival's webpage. It has since been changed removing the vaccine requirement to attending this year's event. (screenshot). Fairhope’s film festival will return for its eighth edition next month, bringing back the four-day festival interrupted by the pandemic last year. Its comeback also came with a message for attendees posted on the festival’s website unti...

The Netherlands’s caretaker prime minister, Mark Rutte, will call on the European Union to withhold 36 billion euros ($42 billion) in recovery money earmarked for Poland following a controversial Polish court ruling that undercut a pillar of membership in the bloc. The European Commission, the EU’s executive body, has already delayed an assessment of Poland’s request for stimulus funds and is...

Gun violence “is a grave public health crisis,” physicians tell the U.S. Supreme Court. Subscribe to AMA Advocacy Update Stay current on the latest on the issues impacting physicians, patients and the health care environment with the AMA’s Advocacy Update Newsletter. In a friend-of-the-court brief that the Litigation Center of the American Medical Association and State Medical Societies filed...

Re “Time to upgrade our successful bottle law” (Editorial, Oct. 11): While the editorial tries to make a case for raising the deposit from a nickel to a dime and adding various other containers such as sports drinks, water bottles, teas, etc., to the mix, it fails to mention a very important part of the law: the part about what happens to the deposit when the container is not redeemed. The dep...

Jessica D. Aber was sworn in as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia on Oct. 12. (Courtesy of U.S. Department of Justice Eastern District of Virginia) STATEWIDE — College of William & Mary Law School graduate, Jessica D. Abner, was sworn in as the 63rd United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) on Monday, Oct. 12. Abner, who has been an Assistant U.S....