Category: State News

Arizona Governor Strips Counties of Authority Over Abortion Prosecutions

June 24, 2023
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Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs stripped counties of their right to hold authority over abortion prosecutions in an executive order announced on Friday. Under the executive order (pdf), Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes has exclusive authority over criminal prosecutions of medical providers, other entities, or individuals for violations of Arizona’s abortion statutes. The order also prohibits state…

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Parents, Staff at Covenant School Join Prominent Officials in New Filings Seeking to Stop Release of Shooter’s Writings

June 24, 2023
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An array of statements in support of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department’s denial of public records requests in connection with the March 27 mass shooting at The Covenant School have been filed this week. In total, around 25 statements supporting the decision to withhold the documents were made in just three days. Those filing in support…

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Judge Agrees to Narrow but Not Lift Gag Order in University of Idaho Student Slayings Case

June 24, 2023
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BOISE, Idaho—An Idaho judge has denied a request from roughly two dozen news organizations to lift a gag order in the criminal case of a man accused of stabbing four University of Idaho students to death. The judge did, however, significantly narrow the gag order in response to the news organizations’ concerns. The ruling was…

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Idaho School District Votes to Ban LGBT Politics From Classrooms

June 24, 2023
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An Idaho school district voted to ban classroom discussions on gender identity this week in the latest battle by conservatives to keep left-wing sexual ideology out of the schools. The Nampa School District in Idaho will prohibit discussions or lessons on gender identity, transgenderism, and sexual orientation in the classroom. The past few years have…

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Oklahoma Death Row Inmate Plans to Reject Chance for Clemency Despite Maintaining His Innocence

June 23, 2023
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OKLAHOMA CITY—A man scheduled to be executed in September for the 1996 killing of a University of Oklahoma dance student plans to reject his chance for a clemency hearing, saying there is little hope the state’s Republican governor would spare his life. Anthony Sanchez, 44, said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press on…

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A Teen Who Killed 4 at a Michigan High School Is Showing ‘Disturbing Behavior’ in Jail

June 23, 2023
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DETROIT—A teenager awaiting sentencing for killing four students at a Michigan high school has been “exhibiting sporadic, disturbing behavior” in jail, prosecutors said, just a month before a key hearing to determine if he will serve a life prison term. The disclosure about Ethan Crumbley, 17, was made in a court document this week and…

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US Engineers Contributed to Missouri River Flood Damage and Must Pay Landowners, Court Rules

June 23, 2023
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OMAHA, Neb.—The U.S. government may have to pay tens of millions of dollars—or more—to landowners along the Missouri River after a court ruled it worsened flooding there since 2007 that killed crops and wrecked homes and businesses. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower court’s 2020 ruling that the federal…

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Judge Denies NYC Request to Dismiss Orange County Migrant Lawsuit

June 23, 2023
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A state supreme court judge on June 21 denied a request from New York City and two hotels to dismiss the migrant lawsuit brought against them by Orange County.  The judge also granted a preliminary injunction that bans the city from sending more migrants into the county until a legal resolution is reached.  Orange County…

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Over Half of All Adults Arrested in San Diego in 2022 Tested Positive for Meth

June 23, 2023
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SAN DIEGO—More than half of all adults arrested in the San Diego region in 2022 tested positive for methamphetamine, according to a report released on June 23 by the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG). According to the findings, the positive rate of meth use in 2022 was 55 percent for female arrestees and 52…

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Elderly Seal Beach Woman Says She Was Hypnotized by Scammer for Money

June 23, 2023
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A 96-year-old Seal Beach woman was scammed out of thousands of dollars—she believes by hypnosis—in one of the more recent online scams targeting the elderly. Seal Beach police, last week, warned of a “significant uptick in financial scams and fraud crimes, primarily targeted at our senior citizen population,” and the elderly woman was one of…

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