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The deadline follows a ruling last summer from the state Supreme Court, which called South Carolina’s law, requiring sex offenders register for life with no opportunity to petition to be removed from that list, the strictest in the country. (Live 5) COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina lawmakers now have less than three months to change the state’s law on sex offenders, and if they don’t, a...

BATON ROUGE, La. — Attorney General Merrick B. Garland said on Friday that the Justice Department would increase the training and other services it offered to local law enforcement agencies seeking to address policing problems, such as the use of excessive force, officer-involved shootings and police bias. The revamped program, called the Collaborative Reform Initiative for Technical Assistan...

Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul is pictured in a 2014 file photo at the state Capitol in Springfield during his tenure as a state senator. Fifteen Illinois elected officials are now calling on Raoul to intervene in a case involving a Mexican immigrant detained in Will County. In a letter sent to Raoul this week and obtained by WBEZ, the officials tell Raoul that Will County is breaking ...

Wicked Local To the Editor: Many residents were concerned about the impact and size of some solar farms that have been installed across our town. A volunteer Solar By-Law Study Committee was formed to rewrite Section 590 of the Zoning By-Laws to explore a path to responsible development of large-scale solar projects that balances the rights of landowners to use their land while protecting th...

MT. JULIET, Tenn. (WKRN) — There’s a renewed push to remind Tennessee drivers about the statewide move over law. On Thursday night, three Mt. Juliet police officers were assisting a wreck on Interstate 40 East. Out of nowhere, a motorist drove into the back of a patrol car, sending it flying into the back of another. The driver of the vehicle was hurt but no officers were injured. “There’s cl...

This drone photo taken by JR Red Tomahawk with the Standing Rock Tribal Roads Department shows a washed-out segment of BIA Road 3 on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. BISMARCK — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe by the families of two people who were killed and two others who were severely injured when ...

Gas prices are seen at a pump at a Sheetz store in Sewickley, Pa., Monday, March 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) Gov. Brian Kemp on Friday signed a law suspending Georgia’s motor fuel tax through the end of May. Lawmakers in both chambers of the General Assembly approved House Bill 304 without opposition, in an attempt to give drivers a break from high gas prices. Georgia’s gasoline pric...

Justice signs Budget Bill into law, but vetoes future tax cut provision  Charleston Gazette-Mail

INDIANAPOLIS – Some pregnant women in Indiana’s jails and prisons are still being forced to give birth while shackled, but a new law taking effect this summer will change that. House Enrolled Act 1294, which has been signed into law by Gov. Eric Holcomb and passed the legislature with unanimous support, will ban the shackling of pregnant inmates during labor and delivery and for a period of t...

HELENA — A federal judge has placed a temporary block on part of Montana’s "vaccine anti-discrimination law," preventing state action against medical facilities that are required to have employees vaccinated for COVID-19 under a federal rule. On Friday, Montana U.S. District Court Judge Donald W. Molloy placed a limited preliminary injunction on a portion of House Bill 702 due to it conflicti...