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In a survey conducted by the Brennan Center last month, three-quarters of local election officials said they think threats against them have increased. One in six say they have personally been threatened because of their work. In Maine, a new law now makes those threats against election workers a misdemeanor. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows joins William Brangham to discuss. Read the ...

Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday signed a bill that allows cyclists to treat stop signs as yield signs when they have right-of-way. DENVER — Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law on Wednesday that allows bicyclists to get out of intersections faster by treating them as safety stops. Under the new law, anyone who uses a "low-speed conveyance" – including bicycles, electric bicycles, electric ...

ATLANTA — Atlanta’s city court is facing a problem that has gotten much worse in the past four years. Channel 2 investigative reporter Richard Belcher has found that tens of thousands of defendants charged with traffic offenses or minor crimes simply don’t bother to show up for court. Setting aside those periods when the court was closed because of a cyberattack and COVID-19, records reviewed...

Crosscut.com A year ago, Emma Fazio was browsing Indeed, a popular job search website, when she came across a food service position in Vancouver, Washington. She filled out an online application and interviewed a week later with a hiring manager, who offered her a job on the spot. “(They) gave me paperwork to fill out, and as I was skimming through it they told me the hourly rate,” Fazio sa...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A new rule imposing residency requirements on most U.S. House and Senate hopefuls won't achieve some Tennessee Republican lawmakers' goal of nudging at least one GOP candidate backed by President Donald Trump off the primary ballot, even as the governor allowed it to become law without signing it Wednesday. That's because the filing deadline for candidates — including ...

Man faces life sentence for killing his kids, brother-in-law after driving truck into canal  Action News Now

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey with Billy Risner, brother of Sgt. Nick Risner, and Aili Risner, Sgt. Risner's daughter. (Photo from the governor's office) Gov. Kay Ivey today signed into law a bill named in honor of Sheffield Police Sgt. Nick Risner, who was shot to death in October. The man accused of the murder of Risner and of a second man had served only three years of a 10-year sentence for mansl...

CONNECTICUT. (WFSB) - There were a lot of dramatic moments during an April 13 multistate police chase and several tense minutes as police boxed the suspect in. A law enforcement expert, retired Connecticut State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance, watched this unfold. A suspect ran from police in Massachusetts crossed into Rhode Island and Connecticut before a trooper got him off the road, using a pit ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Beginning this summer, there will be new rules for hourly workers in Ohio when it comes to overtime pay. A new law defines when you can and can’t clock that overtime. Legal experts say one significant change under the new law is now hourly workers will have to opt-in -- with written consent -- if they want to join a case for unpaid wages. Local wage and hour attorneys have di...