WILKES-BARRE, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — We are still waiting to hear who won the Republican nomination in the 117th State House District race. The final count still hangs in the balance. The matter moved to Luzerne County Court regarding a petition filed over missing dates on mail-in ballots. The process is moving along but there []
HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — In this week's episode of Inside Valley Politics we will feature two Democratic runoff candidates in the Hidalgo County 332nd District Court. Judge Juan Ramón Alvarez and Attorney Abiel Flores talk about the type of cases the court handles and how their experience is right for the job. We also have []
Two Trump-appointed federal judges rejected a new Louisiana congressional map which created a second majority-Black district. The map was drawn up after another federal judge ruled a previous voting map, which had just one Black-majority district, violated the Voting Rights Act. Roughly one-third of Louisiana’s population is Black. It remains unclear which map Louisiana will be using in November as the case is expected to reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
SEA 202 limits public colleges and universities' ability to grant tenure and promotions "if certain conditions related to free inquiry, free expression and intellectual diversity are not met."
Bartholomew Circuit Court staff have moved to a new location in the Court Services building at 555 First St. and are adjusting to a more limited space as the county courthouse renovation continues. Continue reading at The Republic News.
An Ohio teen who was convicted of shooting and killing a man in 2016 when he was 17 years old and tried as an adult had his case heard by the Ohio Supreme Court on the basis that the charges in the adult court could not stand.
STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Stanford will now play on Tara VanDerveer Court. The school is naming the court inside Maples Pavilion for the Hall of Fame coach who retired in April as the winningest coach in college basketball. There will be an unveiling and celebration for the court at a home game in November. In
In a rare instance of disciplinary action against a federal judge, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a public reprimand to Judge Roger Benitez of San Diego for having a 13-year-old girl handcuffed during a court session.
Abortion is still consuming U.S. state legislatures, courts and political campaigns two years after the draft of a Supreme Court decision that would upend the status quo was leaked.
Two years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation’s abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming the nation’s courts, legislatures and political campaigns — and changing the course of lives. On Wednesday, a ban on abortion after the first six weeks of pregnancy, […]
Two years after a leaked draft of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaled that the nation’s abortion landscape was about to shift dramatically, the issue is still consuming the nation’s courts, legislatures and political campaigns — and changing the course of lives. On Wednesday, a ban on abortion after the first six weeks of pregnancy, often before women realize they’re pregnant, took effect in Florida, echoing laws in two other states. Continue reading at The Republic News.
Jake Torpey won an old-fashioned pitcher’s duel to lift the Greater Lowell Tech baseball team to a tense 1-0 win over Lowell Catholic on Thursday afternoon.