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Proposed pay raises for West Virginia state workers are heading to the governor. The state Senate completed action on a pay raise bill Thursday. The Senate concurred with changes made earlier this week in the House of Delegates. The House had tacked on an additional $7,450 for state police while leaving original 5% raises for them and most other state workers intact. Under the increases, a ne...

Camille Malone Fiveash is pretty much an authentic native of Northwest Florida. The 61-year-old mother of three "grown" kids is a seventh-generation Milton resident whose family arrived to Florida in horse-drawn wagons long before air conditioning and Magic Kingdoms arrived on the peninsula. "Besides our area's Native Americans, I guess I'm about as local as it gets around here," she laughed....

Share This: Effective next March, Floridians’ personally identifiable information found in vehicle crash reports and traffic citations will be safeguarded by state law with the recent passage of a bill by both sides of the legislature to restrict public access to the data. SB 1614, and its House companion, amend current law to prohibit the release of crash reports that contain the home or emp...

GUEST COLUMN: Pay attention to this radical abortion law  Colorado Springs Gazette

Benjamin E. Marcus, left, is stepping down as managing partner of Portland law firm Drummond Woodsum but will stay on to practice law. He will be succeeded by longtime shareholder George T. (Toby) Dilworth. After 10 years at the helm of Portland law firm Drummond Woodsum, Benjamin E. Marcus is stepping down from the role of managing director but will continue his practice there as an attorney...

Central High School varsity basketball players wait to warm up on the court below the Grand Junction school's newly-unveiled mascot of a shield bearing the letter "C" on the main's gym wall Thursday, Jan. 6, ahead of their game against Heritage High School. The school's old mascot of a Native American Warrior still adorns the team's water cooler by the bench. (Gretel Daugherty, Special to The...

What you need to know Apple has reportedly joined more than 60 companies calling for an end to Texas' new transgender laws. An executive order from Governor Greg Abbot equates gender-affirming healthcare for transgender children with child abuse. CEO Tim Cook also tweeted more generally in defiance of such laws. Apple has reportedly joined more than 60 companies calling for a halt to tran...

The Virginia General Assembly is preparing to change the state’s open records laws again, removing a recent provision that required police and prosecutors to release closed files to any requester. The changes would also require crime victims to be notified whenever law enforcement is inclined to release a report in open or closed criminal cases. For many years, the state law on criminal inves...

Alabama became the latest state to remove permit requirements to carry a concealed gun in public, as multiple states debate similar measures this session. Known as "permitless carry" or "constitutional carry" legislation, the bills have been roundly criticized by police and gun control advocates, who argue that removing permits poses a safety risk to citizens and officers. Proponents, meanwhi...

Enforcement Counsel Michael Johnson (bottom-right) speaks during the March 4 meeting of the New York State Board of Elections. | New York State Board of Elections The move comes after New York Focus reported on widespread violations of campaign finance law and the Board's lack of enforcement. Following a series of reports by New York Focus into the state Board of Elections’s failure to enfor...