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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Early release options for inmates would expand by increasing the maximum amount of credit prisoners may earn for taking in-prison programming from 8% to 15% of their sentence, under a debated update to Ohio’s criminal justice laws. Providing an incentive for taking programming would positively reinforce rehabilitation and give inmates hope of leaving sooner by putting th...

Avoyelles Parish lost one of its long-serving public servants Wednesday when former Avoyelles Parish Sheriff Doug Anderson passed away at the age of 67 after an illness. Anderson was elected as sheriff in 2008, after retiring from the State Police with 25 years of service. He served three terms before being defeated for re-election in 2020 by another former State Police trooper, David Dauzat....

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Governor Roy Cooper signed the following bill into law today: Governor Cooper made the following statement on HB 243: "Expanding Business Recovery Grant eligibility to businesses that provide services that weren't eligible before - like barbers, hairdressers, nail salons and others - will help more small businesses impacted by the pandemic recover and thrive." ###

Meta and Facebook logos are seen in this illustration taken February 15, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration LinkedIn, Twitter and other companies accuse Meta's Facebook of "stunning" scope of subpoenas Arnold & Porter, Clifford Chance among firms advising nonparty clients whose data at issue Meta's lawyers argue FTC document proposal will harm ability to defend The company and law fi...

Colorado personal injury lawyer Frank Azar. (Courtesy Franklin D. Azar & Associates) Attorney Frank Azar has flooded Colorado’s airways, byways and highways with advertisements for his personal injury law firm for three decades — but now the self-proclaimed “Strong Arm” alleges an out-of-state competitor is leveraging that prolific advertising to poach his clients. In a lawsuit filed in P...

A popular food blogger has become one of the first charged under Russia’s “fake news” law that threatens up to 15 years in prison for opposing the Kremlin’s stance on its war on Ukraine. Ukraine-born foodie Nika Belotserkovskaya, 51, confirmed on social media that she had been charged under the draconian new law. “Am I the first one to go?” she asked on the Instagram page that got her into tr...

David Mamet has filed a legal brief in support of Texas' controversial social media censorship law, which was blocked from implementation late last year. In his latest literary work, American playwright and vocal Donald Trump supporter David Mamet has filed a short story about a lost airplane pilot as a legal brief in support of Texas' controversial social media censorship law. Known as House...

Gov. Jared Polis signing Senate Bill 24 into law from his Capitol office on Thursday, March 17, 2022. Colorado’s witness intimidation law is set to expand after Gov. Jared Polis on Thursday signed Senate Bill 24 into law. The bill will go into effect on July 1, expanding legal protections to cover intimidation that influences a person to withhold information or give false information to law e...

Action on heartbeat law delayed, but ‘reason ban fight’ proceeds Supreme Court case on previability ban might affect case Abortion providers in Kentucky convinced a federal court to continue pausing their challenge to a state law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy because a case pending in the U.S. Supreme Court undoubtedly will affect it. The decision by the U.S. District Court...