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LAREDO, Texas – A 41-year-old Laredo resident has entered a guilty plea for his role in a conspiracy to smuggle goods into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery. Simon Medina III was a Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer. Today, he admitted he helped others illegally bring commercial goods into the United States from Mexico. Medina admitted that between May 25 ...

REVERE, Mass. — Family, friends and first responders from across the country gathered Tuesday for a wake to remember Massachusetts State Trooper Tamar Bucci, who died in a crash while on duty last week. Bucci, 34, was killed when a tanker truck collided with her cruiser on Interstate 93 in Stoneham late Thursday night. She was changing lanes to help a disabled vehicle at the time of the crash...

A group of Republican lawmakers — some of whom voted for the law — now say no-excuse mail voting requires a change to the Pennsylvania Constitution. Mail-in ballots are sorted and counted by workers on Election Day 2020 at Northampton County Courthouse. Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, Trib...

Elections Matt Smith / For Spotlight PA Spotlight PA is an independent, nonpartisan newsroom powered by The Philadelphia Inquirer in partnership with PennLive/The Patriot-News, TribLIVE/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and WITF Public Media. Sign up for our free newsletters. HARRISBURG — The fate of Pennsylvania’s popular vote-by-mail law now lies in the hands of the state’s highest court...

MADISON, WI… With medical resources increasingly strained, military veterans trained in healthcare will soon again be able to answer the call to serve, to the benefit of patients statewide, under a proposal signed into law today. State Sen. André Jacque (R-De Pere), co-author of the proposal with Rep. Rob Summerfield (R-Bloomer), said the bipartisan initiative is modeled after a program in Vi...

Anju Gupta is a professor of law and director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic in Newark. Gupta teaches refugee law and professional responsibility. She reminds her students about their potential to transform the law and shows them that as advocates they can make the world a better place. By Rose Cuison-Villazor In a 2017 interview, former first lady Michelle Obama commented, “Choose people who...

Cincinnati is the latest city to restrict police chases. (CNN)The Cincinnati Police Department implemented a new policy limiting police chases to "violent felony offenses," the latest city to restrict the risky police tactic. The Atlanta Police Department updated its policy last summer, similarly limiting police to pursuits in cases where violence is suspected. Chicago police are forbidden fr...

The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI), Washington D.C., has named former police chief Todd Foreman as its new director of law enforcement outreach. ISRI says Foreman has been in law enforcement since 1993 and most recently served as chief of police for the Bedford, Virginia, police department. “Todd Foreman brings a wealth of law enforcement leadership to ISRI’s national partners...

Florida is an interesting little place. Understatement. It has produced more than its share of drama in a number of respects recently, but most pertinently for TCPAWorld we have an incredibly delightful photo finish in the making here. As we’ve reported at some length, dueling bills in the Florida Senate and House seek to make very different amendments to the Florida Mini-TCPA. The Senate bil...

Food Waste Sonora, CA — California has a new recycling directive requiring that the amount of organic waste currently going to landfills be reduced by 75-percent by 2025, and also that 20-percent of edible food that is currently thrown out be recovered for human consumption. The legislation’s main argument is that by requiring people to separate food from trash, and promoting composting, it w...