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Some members of the Rhode Island state legislature have a personal connection to the opioid crisis. (Photo by cmh2315fl / CC BY-NC 2.0) In July, Rhode Island became the first state in the country to authorize the use of safe injection sites statewide. The landmark legislation signed on July 7 will create a two-year pilot program to establish harm reduction centers permitting people to consume...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott | Gage Skidmore CC BY-SA 2.0 The new Texas law that bans most abortions uses a method employed by Texas and other states to enforce racist Jim Crow laws in the 19th and 20th centuries that aimed to disenfranchise African Americans. Rather than giving state officials, such as the police, the power to enforce the law, the Texas law instead allows enforcement by “any perso...

Connecticut is enacting important new laws to protect pedestrians. They will help improve communication between pedestrians and drivers, and make crossing the street safer for everyone. The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CT DOT) Office of Highway Safety is raising awareness about a new statewide pedestrian safety law that takes effect on October 1. The Pedestrian Rules campaign, wh...

The law also requires better documentation from metal recyclers. (WBTV File) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The theft of catalytic converters is on the rise across North Carolina. The repair and replacement of the emissions device is expensive for vehicle owners. Now, the state of North Carolina is making it more expensive for those who are caught stealing the devices. On Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, ...

The law also requires better documentation from metal recyclers. (WBTV File) CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) - The theft of catalytic converters is on the rise across North Carolina. The repair and replacement of the emissions device is expensive for vehicle owners. Now, the state of North Carolina is making it more expensive for those who are caught stealing the devices. On Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021, ...

I never had an abortion in my childbearing years, and never wanted one. Yet I can imagine circumstances in which I would have done so: a severely deformed or dying fetus; trapped in a violent relationship; raped by a man I would never choose to father my child. We Americans are fair-minded. We can walk in another's shoes. That new Texas law is foreign to American values. Texas is no model: It...

A Mountain Home man with a long history of committing crimes and running from the law entered a guilty plea to charges in three criminal cases during a session of Baxter County Circuit Court last Monday. Thirty-two-year-old Stephan Richard Whaples was sentenced to spend time in one of the Community Corrections Centers in the state to undergo addiction treatment. He will also be on probation f...

Want to get this daily news briefing by email? Here’s the sign-up. WHAT WE’RE WATCHING GROWTH WITHOUT EXPANSION - The Big Law lateral market has been red hot all year. But, as Law.com’s Andrew Maloney reports, lawyer head count still has not spiked dramatically. To the contrary, it’s remained flat, and even decreased in some segments, as the end of Q3 nears. What’s happening? Counterintuitiv...

Text message exchanges made public cast a new light on the Florida Legislature's election reform bill signed into law. | Mark Wallheiser/Getty Images ‘Devastating’: Florida Republicans worried about 2022 as they crafted election law By GARY FINEOUT 09/20/2021 06:00 AM EDT Updated 09/20/2021 02:30 PM EDT 2021-09-20T02:30-0400 TALLAHASSEE — Florida Republicans this spring insisted ...

CIUDAD ACUÑA, Mexico, Sept 19 (Reuters) - A U.S. law enforcement officer on horseback wielded what appeared to be a lariat, whipping it close to the face of a man wading in the Rio Grande carrying a plastic bag of food. It was just one desperate moment in a few hours of such scenes along the Rio Grande on Sunday. Hundreds of Haitian migrants who have been camping under a bridge in the Texas t...