Sweeping gun legislation awaits final votes as Maine lawmakers near adjournment
Missouri lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill to expand private school scholarships statewide, an effort made possible by extensive compromises including a commitment to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on public schools. The GOP-led House voted with a bare-minimum margin of 82-69 to send the measure to Republican Gov. Mike Parson. If signed, it would offer up to $6,375 per child for expenses including tuition, textbooks, tutoring, transportation, extracurriculars and summer school. The...
The Maine Legislature approved gun safety legislation including background checks on private gun sales, waiting periods for gun purchases and criminalizing gun sales to prohibited people.
Police are conducting background checks on Chinese students in Cagayan province amid rumors they could be spies or are part of sleeper cells for the Chinese military.
EDCOUCH, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Hidalgo County held a groundbreaking ceremony on Tuesday for the beginning of a new extension for its main floodwater channel. Residents look forward to the project as it promises to draw water away from their homes and businesses. "Our area has been prone to flooding for many years, as long as []
(The Center Square) — Delaware has yet to implement a new paid leave law, but Democrats are pushing for approval of a new plan to require private employers to provide sick and "safety" leave for their workers. A bill that cleared the Legislature's Committee on Labor this week would require employers to provide workers with at least one hour of earned sick time and safety leave for every 30 hours worked unless they already provide similar benefits. Businesses with fewer than 10...
A minimum bid of $1.4 million has been set for the property, however the suggested value is more than double that, at $2.9 million.
TikTok is singling out lawmakers who voted for a bill that puts into motion a forced sale or a ban of the popular application in the United States while also having accounts of their own. The new bill, passed this week as part of a foreign aid package, would give the Biden administration another chance […]
A bill that gives counties the clear authority to regulate short-term vacation rentals, including the power to ban them, unanimously passed out of a joint House-Senate conference committee today ahead of a vote by the full House and Senate next week.
A federal judge has sentenced two former Cuyahoga County juvenile corrections officers to prison for illegal firearms sales. Several of the guns sold ended up on the streets and were used in crimes, authorities said.
An overwhelming majority of the House voted Thursday on a resolution to condemn Iran’s recent attack on Israel. However, 14 members voted against the resolution: 13 Democrats and one Republican. The group of Democrats includes "squad" members Reps. Jamaal Bowman (N.Y.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.), while Rep. Thomas Massie (Ky.) was the lone Republican to
The city of Petersburg can hold a casino vote this November after Virginia lawmakers approved a change to a bill from Gov. Glenn Youngkin.