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Printer-friendly Certain information generated by your company, even the results of entire investigations, may be legally protected from exposure to people outside the company. While this seems like the holy grail to executives worried about nosey media, plaintiffs’ counsel or intrusive regulators finding the company’s dirty laundry, the protections are limited and can only be applied ...

People hold signs in support of policies that protect the rights of transgender students at a recent Hanover County Board of Supervisors meeting. (Photo: Crixell Matthews/VPM News) Earlier this month, the Hanover County School Board voted to allow the Arizona-based group Alliance Defending Freedom – which the Southern Poverty Law Center has deemed an anti-LGBTQ hate group – to review a distri...

Edwin Hill is the author of "The Secrets We Share." (Kensington Publishing / Courtesy) Sisters Natalie Cavanaugh and Glenn Abbott know quite well how childhood shapes the adults we become as Edwin Hill persuasively follows the siblings’ story in his insightful standalone novel “The Secrets We Share.” When they were children, Natalie and Glenn’s abusive, drunken father, Alan, was murdered in t...

PHOENIX -- The Arizona Coyotes want a new state law that legalizes sports betting changed to allow them to keep running their mobile sports gambling operation when they move from Glendale to Arizona State University's hockey arena next season. But the Arizona Indian Gaming Association and multiple Native American tribes oppose the last-minute measure approved by the Arizona Senate's appropria...

The city of Bloomington is again going to fight the state over annexation, saying a 2019 law passed by the state Legislature violates the state and federal constitutions. The city on Tuesday filed a lawsuit in Monroe Circuit Court to challenge the law, which greatly impeded the city’s annexation attempt. “We are prepared to go back to court against the General Assembly’s continued, persisten...

The state of New Hampshire is asking a federal court to dismiss a case challenging a law that prohibits certain kinds of teaching on racism, sexism and other forms of oppression. The law, championed by Republican lawmakers and Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut, was included in the state budget that Gov. Chris Sununu signed last summer. It prohibits public schools from teaching that one gr...

Damarius Butts. SEATTLE — A coroner’s inquest jury has unanimously ruled that the four Seattle police officers who shot and killed 19-year-old Damarius Butts in 2017 complied with the law and department policy. The jury was unable to say, however, whether Butts or police officers fired first, according to a published report. The ruling follows two weeks of testimony during the first inquest u...

Fentanyl citrate in various forms prescribed by doctors, used illegally in overdose can cause death. GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KFQX) — State data shows more than 800 Coloradans died of fentanyl poisoning in 2021, but a new bill confronting the states growing fentanyl crisis is stirring controversy. Law enforcement and legislators agree, something must be done to fight back. The question is, Hous...

When Freeman High School graduate Rayce Rudeen was away from his Seattle apartment while undergoing opioid addiction treatment, his family found dozens of illicit pills ordered directly from the internet. “It all began with him looking for herbs for his anxiety,” Marsha Malsam, Rudeen’s aunt, said during a news conference in Spokane on Tuesday. “It ended with us finding fentanyl in every enve...