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Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. (Photo: Kevin Sanders for California Globe) Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti signed into law an ordinance that reduces speed limits on 177 miles of streets on Monday, reversing limit increases set by an older statewide policy. The decision to introduce a large number of lowered speed limits dates back to 2018. That year, a state law based on annual “speed surve...

Businesses in Gainesville with 15 or more employees would not be able to reject a job applicant based on their past arrests under a new law proposed by city officials. The City Commission has directed its legal team to draft a “fair chance hiring” ordinance that will be presented to the business community for input. The proposed change would bar local businesses from performing criminal back...

House Bill 4113, which expands cancer coverage for firefighters, has been signed into law by Oregon Gov. House Bill 4113, which expands cancer coverage for firefighters, has been signed into law by Oregon Gov. Kate Brown. The law expands the list of cancers under state law considered an occupational disease for firefighters; it will now include bladder and gynecologic cancers. “For us firefig...

NEWTON CO., Miss. (WLBT) - Multiple law enforcement agencies are investigating the deaths of two females in Newton County. Gloves were the first piece of the puzzle to suggest that the bodies found Friday night in the Conehatta community were discovered on tribal land just outside the community. After an hour of trekking up and down the sparsely populated McDill Road, someone led WLBT to an e...

BEIJING, March 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese legislators have attached great importance to the protection of women's rights and interests, according to a work report submitted Tuesday to the country's national legislature for review. The lawmakers have drafted and conducted an initial review of revisions to the Law on the Protection of Women's Rights and Interests, said the work report of the Nationa...

Donna Jones of Clinton Township stands behind her son Brad during a protest Monday. Donna “gave up my life, my job and everything to take care of my son” following a near-fatal car crash that resulted in a closed-head injury for him. (MITCH HOTTS — THE MACOMB DAILY) On the day Gov. Gretchen Whitmer Michigan announced drivers with auto insurance will soon be each getting $400 refund checks, ab...

Drivers are supposed to take added precautions to avoid crashes on mountain roads. But 9Wants to Know found CSP issued 38% fewer traction tickets in 2021 than 2019. COLORADO, USA — Colorado traction laws require drivers to have vehicles equipped to handle the ice and snow along the state's highways. However, 9Wants to Know has learned that few non-commercial vehicles have been ticketed unde...

Norma B. Marin was a third-grade teacher in New Jersey when she married John Marin Jr., son of the American artist John Marin. She was a novice in the art world, though she quickly became immersed in it. Norma Marin, who for seven decades worked with galleries and museums around the country to promote her father-in-law’s work, died Feb. 22. She was 91. Norma Marin Photo courtesy of Marin fam...

Norma B. Marin was a third-grade teacher in New Jersey when she married John Marin Jr., son of the American artist John Marin. She was a novice in the art world, though she quickly became immersed in it. Norma Marin, who for seven decades worked with galleries and museums around the country to promote her father-in-law’s work, died Feb. 22. She was 91. Norma Marin Photo courtesy of Marin fam...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Arizona Senate on Monday approved several revisions to the state's election laws but three were rejected when majority Republicans failed to muster the needed 16 votes. The rejection of the three bills is a sign that many of dozens of Republican-sponsored election law changes set for Senate votes in the coming days are likely to face trouble getting past at least one GOP se...