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PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and law enforcement leaders are scheduled to speak Thursday morning regarding gun violence in the city. The mayor is expected to deliver a status report on the coordinated efforts between federal, county, city, and community-based organizations. The Assistant U.S. Attorney, Chief Deputy District Attorney, and the Portland Police Chief are also expec...

Under HB33, water right holders can finally lease their water to fill the shrinking lake and other natural lands. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Persisting drought conditions continue to drop water levels at the Great Salt Lake exposing reeflike structures made up of calcium and magnesium carbonate deposits called bioherms that resemble coral as seen on Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. T...

Credit: jozefmicic/stock.adobe.com After the legal industry evaded disaster in 2020 and went on to post stellar financial results, the Am Law 200 appear to have reached even greater heights in 2021. A booming M&A market and rising client demand combined to keep elite lawyers busier than ever—and the early reports from around the industry indicate that revenue and profits leapt forward at ...

Dianne Feinstein Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) spoke on the Senate floor in support of the bipartisan Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. Feinstein was Thursday’s KVML “Newsmaker of the Day”. The bipartisan legislation authored by Senators Feinstein, Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) was signed into law by President Biden on Tuesday and reau...

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U.S. House of Representatives (KNSI) — A bill inspired by a former University of Minnesota student and cosponsored by a central Minnesota congressman was signed into federal law this week. The Abby Honold Act creates a two-year test program for training police in trauma-informed investigations into sexual assault, domestic and dating violence, and stalking. The Department of Justice is now re...

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...

File photo 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 ma...

Law School Professor Kate Stith, the moderator, at one point told the students to "grow up." More than 100 woke Yale Law School students disrupted a bipartisan panel on civil liberties by trying to shout down and intimidate the speakers — who had to be escorted out of the building by police, according to reports. The panel hosted by The Federalist Society featured Kristen Waggone, a controver...

The recent reports of abuse were not the first for the federal correctional institution in Dublin. A recent Associated Press investigation detailed how allegations of rampant sexual abuse of women inmates at the federal correctional institution in Dublin were largely ignored while the victims were often sent to solitary confinement for reporting the offenses. The story was shocking — not for ...