The Virginia Employment Commission is resuming efforts to collect what it says is nearly $860 million in overpayments that went to hundreds of thousands of out-of-work residents.… Continue Reading
Maryland Law Expanding Who Can Perfom Abortion Takes Effect
A Maryland law taking effect Friday will enable nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and physician assistants who receive special training to perform abortions, as some states seek to expand access to the procedure after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.… Continue Reading
New Virginia Law Stops Early Inmate Releases, Angering Families
Christopher Ford was a baby when his father was sentenced to 28 years in prison for participating in a murder-for-hire scheme that led to the killings of two people at a car dealership.… Continue Reading
NY Legislators Rewriting Gun Laws After Supreme Court Ruling
New York lawmakers began a special legislative session Thursday with the intent of limiting the proliferation of firearms in public after the Supreme Court gutted the state’s century-old handgun licensing law.… Continue Reading
Record Low Number Prompt Limits on Chesapeake Bay Crabbing
New restrictions on crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay will take effect this year after the blue crab count plummeted to its lowest level since surveys began in 1990.… Continue Reading
Marijuana, Facial Recognition, Other Laws Take Effect July 1
Most of the legislation passed earlier this year by the divided Virginia General Assembly and signed into law by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin will take effect Friday.… Continue Reading
Fairfax County Schools Face Judgement in Two Federal Sex Assault Lawsuits
A pair of lawsuits that for years has plagued Virginia’s largest school system with allegations that it ignored students’ accusations of sex assaults are back in front of federal judges.… Continue Reading
Personal Info on California Gun Owners Wrongly Made Public
The California Department of Justice on Wednesday acknowledged the agency wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in up to six state-operated databases, a broader exposure than the agency initially disclosed a day earlier.… Continue Reading
Buttigieg Launches $1B Pilot to Build Racial Equity in Roads
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Thursday launched a $1 billion first-of-its-kind pilot program aimed at helping reconnect cities and neighborhoods racially segregated or divided by road projects, pledging wide-ranging help to dozens of communities despite the program’s limited dollars.… Continue Reading
Louisiana AG Warns Doctors Against Performing Abortions
Arizona’s Republican attorney general on Wednesday said that a total ban on abortions that has been on the books since before statehood can be enforced, putting him at odds with GOP Gov. Doug Ducey, who says a 15-week abortion ban he signed in March takes precedence.… Continue Reading
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