SALT LAKE CITY — The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal from residents of a small Utah city challenging endangered-species protections for ...
Read More »Report bets 18 states will consider wagering bills
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A new report predicts 18 states, including Minnesota, will introduce bills to regulate sports betting this year, with 11 having a ...
Read More »Racial slur prompts new look at death sentence
A divided U.S. Supreme Court ordered a new look at a Georgia inmate’s death sentence after one of the jurors referred to the defendant using ...
Read More »Justices order new look at death sentence after racial slur
A divided U.S. Supreme Court ordered a new look at a Georgia inmate’s death sentence after one of the jurors referred to the defendant using ...
Read More »Judge: Iraqis held in U.S. deserve bail hearing
Hundreds of mostly Christian Iraqis in the U.S., who were rounded up for deportation by the Trump administration, should be given a chance for release ...
Read More »Judge won’t block schools’ transgender policy
CHICAGO — A federal judge in Chicago won’t force a suburban school district to suspend a policy that enables transgender students to use bathrooms and ...
Read More »Motel 6 sued for sharing information with feds
SEATTLE — Washington’s attorney general sued Motel 6 on Wednesday, alleging the national budget chain disclosed the private information of thousands of its guests to ...
Read More »Bomb-case defense wants Trump voters in jury pool
WICHITA, Kan. — Attorneys for three men accused of plotting to bomb a mosque and apartment complex housing Somali refugees urged a federal judge on ...
Read More »Sessions ending policy that fostered legal weed
Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rescinding an Obama-era policy that helped states legalize recreational marijuana, throwing a wet blanket on the fledgling industry during what should ...
Read More »In a first, African-American named to Oregon Supreme Court
SALEM, Ore. — The Oregon Supreme Court has a black judge for the first time in its 170-year history. Gov. Kate Brown announced on Tuesday ...
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