Author: Brendan Nordstrom

A 35-year-old Baltimore woman is charged for attempting to drown her 15-year-old daughter in a Minnesota lake Sunday afternoon, police say.Read More

The Oregon Public Utility Commission unanimously approved Portland General Electric’s rate hike for large energy users to take effect Wednesday. Residential rates will go down 1.3%.Read More

Bristol County Sheriff Paul Heroux said ICE was trying to blame Bristol County officials for simply adhering to a state law.Read More

For more than 60 years, the federal government has relied on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to enforce laws against workplace discrimination. The Department of Justice is now challenging a legal framework that has underpinned that work for decades. Geoff Bennett discussed the policy shift and its implications with Jenny Yang, a former chair of the EEOC.Read More

For the first time since 2023, North Carolina has a new state budget.Read More

South Carolina property owners now have a faster legal path to remove people unlawfully occupying their homes under a new law.Read More

The conventional tools previously used to penalize China for its rights abuses – sanctions, public pressure, condemnation, institutional mechanisms, and more – have all been blunted.Read More

South Carolina property owners now have a faster legal path to remove people unlawfully occupying their homes under a new law, supporters say, that will help end squatting.Read More

Gov. Josh Green signed two bills into law Tuesday that implement stricter regulations on electronic smoking devices.Read More

A $53 million indoor activities facility planned for Linn-Mar Community School District is being restructured into two phases after state law reduced the district’s projected sales tax revenue by $13 million over the next decade.Read More