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First responders across Missouri have been grieving the deaths of four people who gave the ultimate sacrifice, all within the month of March. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - First responders across Missouri have been grieving the deaths of four people who gave the ultimate sacrifice, all within the month of March. In March, two Joplin police officers, a Bonne Terre police officer and an Ebenezer fir...

FILE - Then-White House senior adviser Jared Kushner walks away following a television interview on the North Lawn at the White House, in Washington, Sept. 15, 2020. washington — Former White House aide Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former U.S. President Donald Trump, answered questions Thursday from the House panel investigating last year's assault on the Capitol. Kushner, the highest-ran...

On March 16, 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law two amendments to the State’s workplace anti-discrimination and anti-harassment laws. First, the New York State Human Rights Law (“NYSHRL”), New York Executive Law Sections 296 and 297, was amended to explicitly prohibit employers from disclosing or releasing an employee’s personnel file in retaliation for opposing discriminato...

'Unlawful attempt to stigmatize': LGBTQ advocates sue Florida over new law Two LGBTQ rights advocacy groups, as well as students, parents and a teacher in Florida, filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state's new law banning certain instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity in the classroom.

Stanford head coach Tara VanDerveer speaks to reporters before a practice session at Target Center in Minneapolis. USA Today researched data on athletic spending and published its findings this week. The report shows many schools still spent significantly more on men than women — 71 cents on women’s sports for every dollar spent on men’s sports. “We all have sisters, daughters and nieces who ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — For the first time in California's 171-year history, a woman has signed a bill into state law. Gov. Gavin Newsom normally signs the laws in California, but he left the state on Wednesday night for a family vacation in Central and South America. State law requires Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis to act as governor until he returns. The Legislature on Thursday morning passed a bi...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND), member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, announced today the Bureau of Reclamation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) will allocate North Dakota $51,550,000 in funding from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). Through his seat on EPW, Senator Cramer was a key architect of the law and h...

Dayton police said they have identified a woman who dropped off a baby girl at Dayton Children’s Hospital on Thursday morning, and the baby is more than 30 days old. That is too old for Ohio’s Safe Havens for Newborns law. ExploreLook for absentee ballot request forms for upcoming election in Sunday’s Dayton Daily News The Safe Havens for Newborns law allows parents of newborn children up to ...

A person openly carries a pistol in this Denver Post file photo. People won’t be able to flaunt their firearms within 100 feet of a polling place under a law signed by Gov. Jared Polis on Wednesday. House Bill 1086, dubbed the Vote Without Fear Act, makes it a misdemeanor to openly carry firearms near ballot drop boxes, buildings with polling locations or vote counting facilities during elect...

Lawmakers have formally delivered Gov. Ron DeSantis legislation to bolstering officer recruitment and retention and solidify Florida as the most “law enforcement-friendly state.” The bill (HB 3), passed 114-3 in the House and unanimously in the Senate, would provide recruits a bundle of perks. Among them is a one-time $5,000 bonus for first-time officers and a $1,000 reimbursement program for...