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Raleigh, N.C. — State officials on Tuesday said a North Carolina town under investigation for misappropriation of funds also violated the state’s open meetings law in the past two weeks when it dismissed an interim town manager and swore in a replacement without a public vote. In a letter to the the town of Spring Lake’s mayor and board of aldermen, State Treasurer Dale Folwell also said the ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Leaders are hoping that if they invest more in education, as young as possible, it may make a difference in the future when it comes to combating crime. Treasures from Heaven Child Care and Learning Center is located in north Baton Rouge. The center cares for kids from infants all the way to three-year-olds. “The majority of my parents, I would say probably 60% paren...

While the pandemic may seem like a thing of the past, warning letters from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are not. Last week, the FDA issued a new round of letters to no less than seven CBD companies that used research studies to claim or misleadingly imply that their CBD products can cure, mitigate, treat or prevent COVID-19. You can read these letters by clicking on the following li...

FILE - Paul "Rip" Connell, CEO of Private Clinic North, a methadone clinic, shows a 35 mg liquid dose of methadone at the clinic in Rossville, Ga., on March 7, 2017. A deepening opioid epidemic is prompting the U.S. Department of Justice to warn about discrimination against those who are taking medication to wean themselves off their addiction. In guidelines published Tuesday, April 5, 2022, ...

OHIO COUNTY, W. Va. (WTRF) Sheriff Tom Howard is breathing a sigh of relief over recent changes in state law that impacted his department and all others statewide. Before this, it had been the sole responsibility of sheriff’s departments in the mountain state to transport patients who had been placed under an involuntary commitment order. They first had to be taken to a local hospital (WVU Me...

BROWN COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) - In March, a new law took effect in Wisconsin increasing penalties for possessing or intending to sell fentanyl. Possession or delivery of that drug could be charged under other more general drug laws prior to the change, but creating a law just for fentanyl shows how much of a problem and threat it is, according to investigators Within the first few weeks of its ex...

Loveland Police Department arrests Monday 9:26 a.m. In the 500 block of East 13th Street, a 29-year-old Loveland man for investigation of domestic violence and third-degree assault. 4:52 p.m. At East 11th Street and Redwood Drive, a 43-year-old Loveland man on five misdemeanor warrants and two felony failure-to-appear warrants. 5:35 p.m. In the 2600 block of North Lincoln Avenue, a 25-year-o...

To counter police backlash, Miami-Dade creates Law Enforcement Appreciation holiday  Miami Herald

A federal judge has denied a motion to dismiss a federal court challenge of Virginia’s law that makes masking optional in schools. The lawsuit challenging the law was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of 12 families with immunocompromised children. The ACLU claims in the lawsuit that children with weakened immune systems would be harmed if the mask-optional law were kept i...

Tom Godar, of counsel at Husch Blackwell, and host of the Labor Law Insider, explores the impact of the successful union election campaign at Amazon’s Staten Island distribution center. This is in contrast to the ongoing failure of the union-organizing campaign at the Bessemer, Alabama facility, where Amazon workers have thus far voted, a second time, to reject a union-organizing campaign the...