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Wyoming lawmakers plan anti-vaccine-mandate special session
CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers plan to hold a rare special session next week to counter President Joe Biden's proposal to require COVID-19 vaccination for certain workers. Whether the session Oct. 26-28 in Cheyenne, at a cost of $25,000 per day, proceeds to...
South Dakota lawmakers split over records lawsuit payment
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Top South Dakota lawmakers are feuding over whether taxpayers should pay for the state House speaker's legal defense as he faces a lawsuit for refusing to release the names of House legislators who supported a special session this year. Sen. Lee...
Contributions pour into partisan funds for legislators
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Political donations are pouring into special campaign-related funds for New Mexico state legislators in a nonelection year. The Brian Egolf Speakers Fund that bears the name of the Democratic House speaker on Tuesday reported contributions of just...
Nevada election official to keep tax measures on 2022 ballot
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada's top election official is challenging the status of two ballot measures that the state's largest teacher’s union promised to withdraw after successfully using them as bargaining chips and pressuring legislators to boost education funding. ...
Doc tells story of La. man convicted by non-unanimous jury
SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — For more than 120 years, Louisiana has been an outlier among states allowing people to be convicted of serious offenses without the unanimous consent of a jury. Brandon Jackson, 49, from Shreveport, is one of those people. Now, a new collaboration...
Russia marks 15th anniversary of Politkovskaya's killing
MOSCOW (AP) — Colleagues of investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya on Thursday sharply criticized the Russian authorities for failing to track down the mastermind of her killing 15 years ago, saying the official inquiry has effectively fizzled. Politkovskaya, who won...
US poised to sue contractors who don't report cyber breaches
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is poised to sue government contractors and other companies who receive U.S. government grants if they fail to report breaches of their computer systems or misrepresent their cybersecurity practices, the department's No. 2 official said Wednesday. ...
Missouri high court weighs taxation-by-citation law
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's Supreme Court on Wednesday once again weighed the constitutionality of a law against taxation-by-citation, one of few measures passed by state lawmakers in response to massive protests against police violence in Ferguson. Judges...
Force expert: Rittenhouse decisions to shoot were reasonable
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — An Illinois man who shot three people during a protest over police brutality in Wisconsin last year was justified because the men confronted him and two of them tried to wrestle his gun away, a use-of-force expert called by the defense testified at a pretrial hearing...
Minneapolis cop who killed 911 caller resentenced Oct. 21
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a woman who called 911 to report a possible rape behind her home will be resentenced later this month on a lesser charge, after the Minnesota Supreme Court threw out his murder conviction. ...
