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Date: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 Contact: [email protected] HONOLULU — This week in Hawaiʻi, Department of the Interior leadership convened a workshop with federal partners and teams from several of the U.S. Territories — American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands — to discuss strategies to support the successful implementation...

Emmett Till. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. President Joe Biden signed a bill into law Tuesday making lynching a federal hate crime—a move that drew praise from legal groups and lawyers. Speaking from the Rose Garden of the White House, Biden said the anti-lynching bill was the culmination of decades of failed efforts to pass a similar law. The bill was named after Emmett Till, the 14-year-old...

Charleston claims city has unknowingly owned Charleston School of Law property since 2011  Charleston Post Courier

MIDLAND, MI — Mid-Michigan law enforcement leaders gathered at the Midland Police Department building Wednesday, March 30, to discuss and promote the Bridge The Gap academy program, an effort to help recruit and train diverse local police officers. Bridge The Gap is a local nonprofit organization that works to build positive relationships between police and the communities they serve. The org...

Gov. Doug Ducey signed two bills on Wednesday that make Arizona the fifth state to restrict sports participation for transgender athletes this year and third to place limits on surgeries for transgender youth. Representatives of the LGBTQ community had lobbied strongly against the bills at the Legislature before they passed along party lines, arguing that the mental health of transgender yout...

“While other people talk about defunding police, we’re helping to fund them,” Treasurer Moore said. (WKYT) BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) - State Treasurer Riley Moore announced his Office raised nearly $110,000 for several state and local law enforcement agencies. The raised money came during an unclaimed property firearms auction conducted Thursday, March 24, in Charleston. The event raised $109,8...

Rohit Chopra, CFPB director. The CFPB fined student-loan company Edfinancial over findings the company lied to borrowers. The bureau said borrowers with FFEL loans, in particular, were misled about Public Service Loan Forgiveness. The CFPB is requiring Edfinancial to pay a $1 million fine and inform borrowers of forgiveness options. Sign up for our weekday newsletter, packed with original...

In keeping with several states that have recently overhauled their assisted living laws, the Commonwealth of Kentucky has enacted sweeping changes to its regulatory framework for assisted living. Kentucky Senate Bill 11 (“SB 11”) became law on March 18, 2022; however, an effective date for the changes is pending completion and approval of corresponding revisions to applicable regulations. SB ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Last week, in an unusually strong decision, a judge within the government agency tasked with enforcing federal labor laws found that The Daily Grill violated its duty to bargain in good faith with UNITE HERE Local 11, the union for hotel and restaurant workers in Southern California. “failing to meet at reasonable times and confer in good faith, engaging in dela...

Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts, left, and Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said Tuesday, July 27, 2021, that they oppose the CDC's new mask guidance.(WOWT) LINCOLN, Neb. (WOWT) - Hundreds of pieces of old — but viable — protective equipment that is no longer of use to Nebraska and Iowa law enforcement are making their way to Ukraine. It’s part of a coordinated regional effort to provide humanitarian suppo...