Missouri State

Columbus, OH

Texas State

The Hill

Texas’s Supreme Court on Friday upheld the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, dealing a blow to a group of medical providers, national LGBTQ organizations and families with transgender children that sued to block it.  The 8-1 ruling leaves in place a law that has upended care for an estimated 30,000 transgender Texans for nearly…

Top Texas court upholds gender-affirming care ban for minors

WashingtonExaminer

The Texas Supreme Court declined to change a state law banning transgender healthcare for youths on Friday, blocking a legal challenge in an 8-1 ruling. The decision goes against some families’ pleas that the law violates their right to medical care for their children. “We conclude the Legislature made a permissible, rational policy choice to […]

Texas Supreme Court keeps ban on age limit to qualify for transgender surgeries and care

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NewSantaAna

The FBI has seen a rise in scams targeting timeshare owners. In this kind of scam, criminals con these part-time property owners into shelling out hefty sums of cash, all under false pretenses related to their timeshare properties.

FBI warns that Mexican cartels are targeting Americans with timeshare scams

Georgia State

The Associated Press

Associated Press (AP) — A new federal lawsuit challenges a Georgia law that expands cash bail and restricts organizations that help people pay bail so they can be released while their criminal cases are pending. Senate Bill 63, which was signed into law last month by Gov. Brian Kemp...

Federal lawsuit challenges Georgia law that limits many people or groups to posting 3 bonds a year

Massachusetts State

Dalton, MA

Dozens of residents from Dalton and surrounding towns rallied against a proposed landfill ahead of a meeting with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. (Claire Sullivan | New Hampshire Bulletin) Andrea Bryant lives in Bethlehem, about a mile from the landfill there. She doesn’t open...

North Country residents rally against Dalton landfill: ‘I don’t want Massachusetts trash’

Coffee County, GA

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Daily Coffee Press

Last month, more than twenty individuals were indicted on felony charges in Coffee County. Several of them have recently made local headlines, including Guillermo de la Cruz-Morales, the sole person charged in connection with the disappearance of Maria Diaz, and Cornelius Jamison, accused of cocaine trafficking.

Grand Jury Indicts Over Twenty Individuals on Felony Charges in Coffee County

Saint Johns County, FL

Hastings, FL

Jacksonville Today

Eight people have been arrested on drug charges stemming from an undercover investigation at a convenience store in Hastings, according to the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office.

8 arrested in Hastings drug and gambling bust

Tennessee State

Mississippi State

Blountville, TN

Mississippi Department of Corrections Commissioner Burl Cain talks about his accomplishmens and future plans for MDOC since his 2020 appointment by Gov. Tate Reeves, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. Officials with the Mississippi Department of Corrections used the state airplane last year to travel to Tennessee to interview a Mississippi inmate...

Why did prison officials use a state plane to interview an inmate in Tennessee? They won’t say.

Reading, PA

Mahanoy City, PA

The Shenandoah (PA) Sentinel

MAHANOY CITY – Two members of a motorcycle club were convicted on federal charges, accused...
The post Convicted motorcycle club members orchestrated ‘brutal’ home-invasion in Mahanoy, feds say first appeared on The Shenandoah Sentinel.

Convicted motorcycle club members orchestrated ‘brutal’ home-invasion in Mahanoy, feds say

Washington State

Washington State Standard

Most of the parental “bill of rights” the Legislature approved earlier this year can remain in effect, for now, but pieces related to when parents can access medical and mental health records can’t go forward, a judge ruled Friday. King County Superior Court Judge Michael Scott granted a request to temporarily block parts of the […]
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Judge blocks parts of WA’s new parental rights law

Newark, NJ

Morristown Minute

NEWARK, N.J. – Eight individuals associated with the "793 Bloods" street gang, a subset of the national Bloods gang, have been charged for their roles in a Newark-based drug trafficking organization, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Eight '793 Bloods' Gang Members Charged in Newark Drug Network

Andrea Suarez dismantles a tent as garbage lies piled at a homeless encampment on March 13, 2022 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) The nation’s high court cleared the way Friday for cities and counties to outlaw sleeping outdoors in public places, igniting fear it will lead to more homelessness in Washington.

Washington cities can now penalize those sleeping outdoors, but will they?

Denver, CO

David Heitz

The mother of a Denver homeless man told the City Council Monday that city-sponsored services have failed her son. Barbara Hallick Yeomans made her remarks during public comment period of the City Council meeting. She said her son grapples with substance abuse and mental illness and repeatedly has been harassed by police. She said her son also suffered verbal abuse by a guard in the Denver County Jail. Yeomans said she heard the guard harassing her son over the phone.

Mother says Denver homeless services have failed her son

Woodbridge, VA

The Inside Scoop - PWC

WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Authorities are actively searching for Quamel Thomson, a 26-year-old man from Woodbridge, who is accused of assaulting a woman and preventing her from leaving an apartment in the Longview Apartments complex on Lynn Street.

Woodbridge Police Hunt for Man Accused of Strangling and Assaulting Woman in Apartment

Douglas City, CA

This afternoon, Kentaiwon Durham, the Douglas City Commissioner of Ward 2, entered a guilty plea for wire fraud in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia. Consequently, Durham is mandated to resign from his position as a city commissioner.

Georgia City Commissioner Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud in $20K PPP Fraud Scheme

Baltimore, MD

Remnants of the Francis Scott Key Bridge. Photo from the Maryland Department of Transportation Flickr account. The White House on Friday reiterated its support for full federal funding to replace the Francis Scott Key Bridge in a request to Congress for $4 billion in emergency disaster relief funding. The letter...

Biden administration asks for emergency funds for Key Bridge replacement

Gloucester County, NJ

Franklinville, NJ

FRANKLINVILLE, N.J. -A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man admitted today that he defrauded the government of more than $200,000 in Social Security and Medicaid benefits, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

Man Guilty of $200K Social Security & Medicaid Fraud

Ali Carney, 46, of Newark, received a 65-month prison sentence for conspiring to distribute narcotics, including fentanyl and heroin, and possessing with intent to distribute fentanyl, according to U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger.

Gang Member Sentenced to 65 Months for Drug Trafficking

Ohio State

Several weeks ago, State Rep. Brian Stewart lamented on social media that 75% of Ohio’s lawyers are concentrated in the six largest counties. For many Ohioans, that fact oozes with unfairness. It suggests that people in rural communities aren’t receiving adequate legal representation. Who wouldn’t sympathize, right? That...

Concern for shortage of rural lawyers exposes Ohio’s disproportionate white male rule

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Hearing over Missouri’s ban on gender-affirming care focuses on withheld documents

Attorneys representing transgender minors and health care providers squabbled with the Missouri Attorney General’s Office Wednesday over thousands of documents both sides say are being wrongfully...

Hearing over Missouri’s ban on gender-affirming care focuses on withheld documents

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