BATON ROUGE — An investigative reporter out of New Orleans sued the Louisiana Department of Public Safety on Monday, alleging it had failed to respond to public records requests.Nick Chrastil, a journalist with nonprofit news outlet The Lens, sued after the agency would not disclose records associated with its hiring of a private law firm, WilmerHale, to provide legal services to the state in connection with consent decrees and the federal government, a statement from the Tulane...
A Massachusetts police officer was hurt after a Friday afternoon crash at a construction site in Billerica.
A journalist for a Louisiana nonprofit newsroom is suing a state agency for access to certain public records. According to a news release, Nick Chrastil asked the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections for information on WilmerHale.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is seeking public comment until May 22 on proposals to prohibit canned hunting and implement trapping standards for mountain lions.
Around 1:30 p.m., the U.S. Marshals Task Force went to serve a warrant in the 5000 block of Galway Drive for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
An Albany police officer was injured in an shootout just after midnight near North Main Avenue and Western Avenue.Albany Police Public Information Officer Megan Craft says the officer was conducting a traffic stop when a person inside the car opened fire.The officer shot back at the suspect.Both the officer and the suspect were taken to
Officers said they caught the turtle, “playing on the street and let them [the turtle] go with a warning.”
It’s been an extremely hectic week so we’re reaching into the opinion vault to recall some lessons offered four years ago when the coronavirus pandemic caused a lot of misery. Remember? Kids were stuck at home with online school. Parents missed work that put food on the table. Some companies closed. And it didn’t take long to find there was […]
Two police officers were injured in the collision involving a liveried GMP vehicle
Officers Michael Sajnovsky, Chad Shrader, and Jeffrey Orth were sworn into their new duties at a ceremony in the council chambers.
A positive drug test and a glass pipe left inside a cop car. Multiple police sources close to the investigation confirmed that a longtime officer with the Guam Police Department recently tested positi
For the past few years, it has seemed like tech’s future might be not in Silicon Valley, but in Texas. In the early years of the pandemic, Austin shaped itself into a tech hotspot: Tech workers, rendered nomadic by COVID-19-related remote work policies, eyed the city for its affordability and more relaxed pace of life, and companies eyed its comparatively lower taxes and looser regulations. The state’s government raced to poach California tech companies, playing into the hype and touting...