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Patients are no longer required to pay for out-of-network care given without their consent when they receive treatment at hospitals covered by their health insurance since a federal law took effect at the start of this year. But the law’s protections against the infuriating, expensive scourge of surprise medical bills may be only as good as a patient’s knowledge — and ability to make sure tho...

BALTIMORE (AP) — When Liris Crosse found out that she landed a recurring role on NBC’s “Law & Order: Organized Crime” she was trying to find a parking spot near her Brooklyn apartment. She broke down when she received the call from her agent and acting coach. “I started to ugly cry,” she said. “I thought, ‘It’s really happening.’” For Crosse, 43, the news caught her off guard. After givin...

Recently, I read a tweet from Governor Greg Abbott: “I’ve asked the members of the Texas Restaurant Association, Texas Package Stores Association & all Texas retailers to voluntarily remove all Russian products from their shelves. Texas stands with Ukraine.” I, too, stand with Ukraine. My heart breaks watching footage of families fleeing under shelling, and hospitals reduced to rubble. I ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has extended martial law in Ukraine from March 26 for 30 days. That's according to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ukrinform reports. On March 20, the head of state signed a number of wartime laws, including Law No. 2119 approving a presidential decree "On Extension of Martial Law in Ukraine." "The law extends the period of wartime in Ukraine from 05:30 o...

You don't need me to tell you how popular Wordle is. You might, however, have needed me to reveal just the other week how ad-trackers had slipped into the puzzler since being acquired by The New York Times. But what about the multitude of Wordle clone apps that have popped up, and mopped up, since the stunning success of the original word game? Are they tracking you or assisting third parties...

100 Years Ago: Weld sheriff opposes proposed law prohibiting light wines and beer 100 Years Ago, for the fourth week of March 1922,rom the pages of the Greeley Tribune-Republican newspaper. The Greeley City Council passed a resolution that will reduce the pay of city employees from $3.50 per day to $3.00 per day. Nothing was said about when it will come into effect, but one council member ...

Years of advocacy could culminate in underwhelming reforms to Iowa’s container deposit program this legislative session Bags of empty cans fill a trailer at Can Shed in Marion. (Liz Martin/The Gazette) Iowa lawmakers have plans to update Iowa’s bottle bill but it might end up as more of a downsizing than a modernizing. Iowans take pride in having one of the oldest container redemption laws in...

A Jefferson City man was placed on five years supervised probation after pleading guilty to charges in connection with a domestic violence incident in January. During a hearing before Cole County Presiding Judge Jon Beetem, Terrian Davis, 28, pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm, second-degree attempted domestic assault, first-degree endangering the welfare of a child, first-deg...

Looking north along the east shore of Lake Tahoe and the Carson Range. At the height of the summer of 1997, President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore motored out to the middle of Lake Tahoe in a research vessel for a science lesson. Clinton and Gore came to Lake Tahoe after receiving an invitation from Nevada Sen. Harry Reid, who was alarmed by Tahoe’s deteriorating environment and wa...