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Fire stations, including this one in Lafayette, on March 15, 2019, are designated sites under Colorado's Safe Haven Law, which says a parent can drop off a baby within 72 hours of birth without fear of child abandonment charges. Infants must be handed to an employee. (Dana Coffield, The Colorado Sun) The recent arrest of a young Highlands Ranch woman whose dead newborn baby was found hidden i...

Editor's note: If you'd like an email notice whenever we publish Ross Ramsey's column, click here. If you would like to listen to the column, just click on the play button below. The federal judge who temporarily blocked enforcement of the new abortion restrictions in Texas said state lawmakers knew the law was unconstitutional and wrote it to try to prevent the federal courts from saying so....

Dayton 24/7 Now Photo SPRINGBORO, Ohio (WKEF) - We’re seeing an uptick of car break-ins throughout the Miami Valley recently, many police departments now warning community members to keep an eye out. The Springboro Police Department is one of those warning people to remain vigilant. It starts out as simple valuable items that are left out insight and then if keys are left inside the car it c...

The top Republican in the Iowa Senate is pushing back against Democrats who say the Republican-led legislature intends to adopt new maps for congressional and legislative districts that favor Republicans. “Iowa law is very specific about how districts need to be drawn. It has be within a certain compactness, a certain population deviation. You have to keep cities together as much as possible,...

Sen. Barry Finegold File photo Beacon Hill Roll Call records local representatives’ and senators’ votes on roll calls from the week of Oct. 4-8. HENS The House, 156-1, approved a bill that would make changes and put Massachusetts in line with other larger egg-producing states that have put in place standards for hen confinement. In 2016, Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly passed Question 3 t...

Credit: fizkes/Shutterstock.com What You Need to Know A number of lawyers and law firm professionals have been availing themselves of a postlunch snooze. Some law firms have introduced private spaces in the office where people can recharge, sometimes called wellness rooms. The stigma linking napping to unproductivity might be hard to shake. Lunch is over. A wave of fatigue is setting in. An...

A measure criminalizing threats in New York to expose a person's immigration status was signed into law this weekened by Gov. Kathy Hochul. The new law considers threats to expose undocumented people in the state as extortion or coercion, and is based on similar measures already on the books in California, Colorado, Maryland and Virginia. It's already illegal to threaten to expose a person's ...

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series on current challenges facing the federal bureaucracy from “Rethinking Our Democracy.” A joint initiative by the Center for Effective Government (@UChicagoCEG) at the University of Chicago and Protect Democracy (@protctdemocracy), “Rethinking our Democracy” produces written series on key areas of institutional and democratic reform. Other article...

Joshua Klatzkin, left, and Lynda Galligan, right, co-chairs of Goodwin Procter’s business law department. Courtesy photo What You Need to Know Goodwin Procter named Lynda Galligan and Joshua Klatzkin co-chairs of the firm's business law practice. The practice has doubled in size over the last five years under the leadership of outgoing chairman Mark Macenka. Galligan and Klatzkin are lookin...

BALTIMORE — As the police chief in a small village, Mike Tussey's job is about more than just law enforcement. "I would say that when people need something or they want a question answered, then the chief of a small agency is the one they come to," he said. Tussey regularly meets with citizens at a village coffee shop to answer questions and talk about their concerns. He hosts his Coffee wit...