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A detective and some of Snow White's dwarves investigate a crime scene in rehearsals of "Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit." PEQUOT LAKES — Roughly 40 Pequot Lakes students will take to the stage Friday, March 11, for the first showing of “Law & Order: Fairy Tale Unit.” The show follows the well-known style of the popular and long-running “Law & Order” show, but twists the form...

Ana DeJesus, right, places a teddy bear on a growing memorial at a Sacramento church that was the site of a Feb. 28 mass shooting. At left, Vera Cruz waits to leave flowers and balloons. SACRAMENTO — How much money are we willing to spend to seize guns from the likes of the disturbed father who shot and killed his three daughters in a church? And are Sacramento Democrats now willing to ret...

Ana DeJesus, right, places a teddy bear on a growing memorial at a Sacramento church that was the site of a Feb. 28 mass shooting. At left, Vera Cruz waits to leave flowers and balloons. How much money are we willing to spend to seize guns from the likes of the disturbed father who shot and killed his three daughters in a church? And are Sacramento Democrats now willing to retool California’s...

Angela Durrer moved to Albemarle County’s Ridgewood Mobile Home park in 1998 because it was the only place close to her aging parents that she could afford. She lived there — just five minutes from her parents’ home and her job — for more than 20 years, until, in 2019, Ridgewood’s owner sold the park. She couldn’t find another park with an open lot, nor could she afford to rent or buy a place...

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a flag-raising ceremony on the ferry Marshal Rokossovsky via a video link at his residence outside Moscow, Russia March 4, 2022. Sputnik/Alexey Nikolsky/Kremlin via REUTERS March 7 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with European Council President Charles Michel on Ukraine, during which Putin urged the European Union to pres...

Kasim Reed, Atlanta’s former two-term mayor, has joined Squire Patton Boggs as a partner, the firm announced Monday. Reed, who became an associate at Paul Hastings and later a partner at Holland & Knight after earning his bachelor’s and law degree from Howard University, said he has known attorneys at Boggs for years and was always impressed by the caliber of its people and vast internati...

Local hemp farmers could get a jump start on joining the adult-use cannabis industry thanks to a new state law. The state legislature has passed a bill that will allow current hemp farmers the opportunity to start growing adult-use marijuana. The Hepworth family has owned a farm in the town of Milton that has been passed down for seven generations, and they’ll now have a chance to supply the ...

SAN DIEGO, March 07, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shareholder rights law firm Johnson Fistel, LLP (www.JohnsonFistel.com) is investigating whether Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (“Quest” or the “Company”) (NYSE: DGX), any of its executive officers, or others violated federal securities laws by misrepresenting or failing to timely disclose material, adverse information to investors. What actions m...

The Fairfax County School Board, representing Virginia’s largest school system, says the Commonwealth’s new law prohibiting mask mandates is unconstitutional, and wants to be heard in support of a federal lawsuit filed by the ACLU on behalf of immunocompromised students. Gov. Glenn Youngkin signed Senate Bill 739 into law on Feb. 16, with an emergency amendment which let the law go into effec...

Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen speaks about concerns over rising violent crimes during a Feb. 3 press conference about the city's public safety plans for 2022. A year after Colorado's legislature overhauled crime laws, lawmakers are working to roll back a portion of the legislation that eased the ability of individuals convicted of a wide array of felony offenses to legally access a gun. One ...