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Sarasota Herald-Tribune Beckstein Fund awards$200,000 to Mote SEA The Beckstein Charitable Fund of the Manatee Community Foundation has awarded a $200,000 grant to Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium’s Science Education Aquarium (SEA). The fund has provided $250,000 to Mote SEA since 2018. Mote SEA is planned for 12 acres in Nathan Benderson Park. The site will double the number of residen...

The W.H. Bowen School of Law at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has received a $1 million grant to establish a statewide court observation initiative that will produce data and research about Arkansas' criminal-justice system. The project will be done through the law school's new Center for Racial Justice and Criminal Justice Reform, according to the announcement by UALR. "The proje...

WASHINGTON — K.T. Volkova got a positive pregnancy test just days before Texas' controversial law banning most abortions took effect. The 23-year-old, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, was nearly six weeks pregnant and immediately knew they wanted an abortion. But Volkova was already on the cusp of the limit set by the new law, which bars in-clinic abortions after the d...

Residents wait in line to cast ballots during early voting on October 6, 2020, in Highland, Indiana. (CNN)Critics often describe the wave of voter restriction laws sweeping the nation as a new version of Jim Crow, the 19th century minstrel figure whose stage name became the symbol of a brutal era of Black oppression. But if you want to understand how these new voter restriction laws also oppr...

Seyfarth Synopsis: On September 20, 2021, the Seventh Circuit ruled in Fernandez v. Kerry, Inc., No. 21-1067 (7th Cir. Sept. 20, 2021), that a cause of action filed under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act ("BIPA") by employees of Kerry, Inc., was preempted by Section 301 of the Labor Management and Relations Act because the claims were premised on an alleged failure by the employ...

A patient called the Kalispell Police Department “because the registered nurse wouldn’t give him more sausage.” An unorthodox thief allegedly attempted to steal bricks from a driveway and then went out into a nearby field to perform “some kind of exercises.” He was forbidden from returning to the scene of the attempted brick burglary. A woman was holding down her cat at a veterinarian’s offic...

Oregon SB 554 requires firearms to be locked and secured when not in use. PORTLAND, Ore. — A new Oregon bill goes into effect Saturday that requires guns to be securely stored when not in use. Senate Bill 554 requires Oregonians to keep guns secured with a trigger or cable lock, in locked container or in a gun room except in specific circumstances. It also allows places like the state capito...

Oregon Republicans SB 554, the rights crushing bill brought to us by leftist Democrats and cowardly Republicans is now in effect . We have received numerous requests for an explanation of exactly what the bill does. But given the contradictions between what its proponents said it would do, and what the actual language of the bill says, any attempt at an in-depth explanation of the bill would ...

SACRAMENTO (AP) — More than a year after protesters toppled a statue of a Spanish missionary on the grounds of the California Capitol, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law on Friday to replace it with a memorial for the state’s Native Americans. A statue of Father Junipero Serra had stood in Capitol Park since 1967. He was a Roman Catholic pries who established a string of missions from San Diego t...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - The Lorena defense wreaked havoc on the Bumblebees all night as the Leopards come away with a 34-17 win to open District play. Copyright 2021 KWTX. All rights reserved.