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Play A new reform package approved by Congress is expected to save the U.S. Postal Service more than $100 billion over the next decade. (Adobe Stock) After years of attempts, a bill designed to reverse troubled finances at the U.S. Postal Service has cleared Congress. It is viewed as a major victory for workers and customers in rural states like North Dakota. A key provision no longer require...

From one-time bonuses to increased funding for safety equipment, the 93rd General Assembly made support for law enforcement a top priority in this fiscal session. Act 224 provides a one-time stipend of $5,000 to full-time certified city and county law enforcement officers as well as probation and parole officers. It also provides for a $2,000 one-time stipend for state troopers. Act 223 incre...

FLORIDA — The Florida Senate on Friday unanimously passed "Miya's Law," legislation that would improve apartment tenant safety in Florida. The measure, Senate Bill 898, now heads to Gov. Ron DeSantis' desk. The bill is named after Miya Marcano, 19, a college student who was killed last fall. Orange County sheriff’s deputies suspect a maintenance worker at the Arden Villas apartments near UCF ...

The world is obsessed with Hollywood fashion and the red carpet has long dominated headlines, but it is only recently that we have started to really grasp the huge production that goes into the outfits that stars wear. Thanks to social media, we can finally see what happens behind the scenes and, as a result of that, the stylists themselves are becoming famous in their own right. Perhaps nobo...

LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) - After almost eight hours sitting in a police station and court, Vera Kotova became one of the first people to be judged and fined just under $240 under a new Russian law to punish anyone deemed to have discredited the armed forces. Her crime was writing "No to war" accompanied by a heart in the snow at the foot of a statue of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin in...

First-year law student Aretha Agyare raises her hand to ask a question during a lecture at the UNT Dallas College of Law in Dallas on Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016. (Rose Baca/The Dallas Morning News) Last week, the University of North Texas at Dallas College of Law announced it received full accreditation by the American Bar Association. ABA accreditation is a critical win and affirms that UNT-Dal...

DENVER — A coalition of civil and voting rights organizations invoked the 19th-century Ku Klux Klan Act in a lawsuit filed Wednesday seeking to stop a group of Donald Trump supporters from going door-to-door in Colorado in a search for already-debunked voter fraud. The lawsuit against the U.S. Election Integrity Plan, which has its roots in Mesa County, alleges that the group’s activities inc...

Seyfarth Synopsis: This week we are attending the ABA Occupational Safety and Health Law Meeting in Sarasota, Florida. The meeting includes representatives from the U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Review Commission, the MSHA Review Commission, OSHA and MSHA Judges, and the Solicitor's Office, as well as management, labor, and safety professionals. Douglas L. Parker, Assistant Secretary of Labo...

Harvard Law School appointed Monica E. Monroe as its new Assistant Dean of Community Engagement, Equity, and Belonging last month. Harvard Law School appointed Monica E. Monroe as its new Assistant Dean of Community Engagement, Equity, and Belonging last month. The Law School’s Office of Community Engagement, Equity, and Belonging aims to support historically underrepresented students and stu...

Until Thursday, women in custody were shackled to the bed while giving birth in Indiana jails. INDIANAPOLIS — Every year, an estimated 1,400 babies are born to women in custody. Until Thursday, in Indiana, incarcerated women were giving birth while shackled to the bed. "I want to be present and just be the best mom that I can be," said 36-year-old Christina Kovats of the goal she’s strived ...