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Kentucky's Democratic governor filed suit Thursday seeking to block a new state law that gives Republican officials the power to appoint a majority of members to a key ethics commission. Gov. Andy Beshear's legal challenge warns that the reconstituted membership on the state Executive Branch Ethics Commission could launch politically based, meritless investigations. The lawsuit, filed in Jeff...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WJHL) — Despite not having the signature of Gov. Bill Lee, a bill passed by the Tennessee House and Senate that would make camping on all public property illegal is now state law. SB1610 expanded the Equal Access to Public Property Act of 2012 to include city and county public property. It previously only included state and private property. Camping on any public property no...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — As Regent law students prepare for graduation, they just learned who will be speaking at their graduation. Newly-inaugurated Attorney General Jason Miyares will be the keynote speaker at the Regent Law School Commissioning Ceremony on May 6. The event is set to take place at 9 a.m. at Library Plaza on Regent’s Virginia Beach campus.

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CONCORD, N.H. — Late Thursday night, the state Senate repealed the law providing for a 'buffer zone' around abortion clinics on a narrow 12-11 vote. Republicans cited the 2014 Supreme Court decision striking down Massachusetts' buffer zone law to back this move. Democrats said New Hampshire’s law is different from the Massachusetts one in that case in that it does not mandate a specific buffe...

CADDO PARISH, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – A Louisiana legislator from Caddo Parish is behind a bill that would classify abortion as murder. State Representative Danny McCormick (R) Oil City authored HB 813. He said it would give unborn fetuses the same protection as adults, thus making it a crime punishable on the same level as homicide if aborted. He said it would not affect a woman whose life was in ...

When a sick little girl gets kidnapped, and her father turns out to be a member of a corrupt New York Police Department ring called The Brotherhood, well that’s the makings of a Law & Order: Organized Crime/SVU crossover. The case got underway during the Law & Order: SVU portion of NBC’s Thursday-night lineup (read a recap here), when Olivia got a call about a missing girl who had leu...

When an individual dies of a drug overdose, it’s a tragic occurrence. It’s particularly sad when the victim is young. In recent years, especially with the advent of drugs laced with fentanyl or other especially risky synthetic narcotics, there has been a trend to try to hold those who sell the fatal drugs accountable for the outcome. In Mississippi this year, the Legislature passe...

Courtesy of Tribune News Service The Greene County Legislature unanimously passed a local law on Wednesday night that establishes a set rate for solar project PILOT agreements in the town. CATSKILL — A local law that sets a specific fee rate for developers hoping to build solar projects in Greene County was adopted by the Legislature in a special meeting Wednesday. The local law was adopted u...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) doesn’t want federal contracts to go to companies, like Amazon, that allegedly violates labor laws. “Who as we speak right at this moment is engaged in massive, well funded, anti-union activity,” Sanders said. Sanders says Amazon isn’t following federal discrimination and wage laws. “To date, there are currently 59 unfair labor cases against ...