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While some residents defended the siren as part of the town's heritage, the chairman of the Washoe Tribe called it "a living piece of historical trauma."

Pedestrian Joe Boever, 55, died September 12, 2020, after being struck by South Dakota Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg's car.

Democrats were unswayed by Republican arguments, leaving them short of the supermajority vote required to bypass the governor.

"The opportunity to hold Weinstein accountable for his actions in California gives voice to the survivors including my client, Jane Doe 4," said Elizabeth Fegan, a lawyer of one of Weinstein's accusers.

Sheffield Lake, Ohio's new decibel limit of 40 is barely over the level of a soft whisper and about 20 decibels lower than the noise of a normal conversation.

Recent studies suggest that children under 18 are two to three times more likely to falsely confess than adults.

A Planned Parenthood lawsuit caused a South Carolina abortion law to be blocked.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker said, "We are setting a new standard for what it means to truly reckon with our history."

The new law rests on the idea that lobsters—as well as other sea creatures, like crabs and octopi—are sentient beings capable of suffering.

"Let them challenge us," Tucson Councilman Steve Kozachik told the Arizona Daily Star.

Prosecutors allege Rittenhouse traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin to answer a call for paramilitary groups to protect businesses during a Black Lives Matter protest.

Wyatt Dean Lamb of Wyoming is charged with killing his girlfriend's 2-year-old son.

"This partisan lawsuit was nothing short of an attempt to tarnish Gov. Branstad's character and reputation," said Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig.

The former New York City mayor recently had his law license suspended.

"We have women serving in our highest offices, and the (sections) of the code referring to them only in the male pronoun was pretty shocking to me," said California Assemblywoman Rebecca Bauer-Kahan.

On Wednesday, Judge Penny told the 39-year-old singer the legal guardianship could not be removed until a petition to terminate is submitted to the court.

"There was nothing typical about what Derek Chauvin did in torturing George Floyd to death," attorney Ben Crump said.

The rapper filed a complaint in a Los Angeles court on Thursday claiming that the retail giant is selling fake versions of his Yeezy Foam Runner slides.

The former mayor of New York was suspended from practicing law in the state after a decision on Thursday.

"Can you believe that New York wants to strip Rudy Giuliani, a great American Patriot, of his law license because he has been fighting what has already been proven to be a Fraudulent Election?" former President Donald Trump said on Thursday.

The Attorney Grievances Committee for the First Judicial Department petitioned to strip Giuliani of his ability to practice law due to his involvement in a series of election lawsuits filed on behalf of former President Donald Trump's campaign to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

The Supreme Court ruled that high school cheerleader Brandi Levy's First Amendment rights were violated.

I do think that I was brave to go back to law school at 38, because I knew I would be old enough to be the mother of other students.

"I'd do it again," said Mark McCloskey, who is running as a Republican candidate for the Missouri Senate, after the hearing.

The move protects healthcare insurance for millions of U.S. citizens.

Ghislaine Maxwell should be investigated by U.K. police on Jeffrey Epstein's related grooming allegations, according to a former British prosecutor.

"It would be a big deal because of the nature of college admissions across the country and because of the stakes of having this issue before the Supreme Court," U.S. lawyer Gregory Garre said.

Clearing federal death row is the only way to make sure that the U.S. government does not execute an innocent person.

The California Democrat said the attorney general needs to make sure there is "accountability" for those involved.

This week, attorney Michael van der Veen of Philadelphia, Penn., filed a motion to represent Jason Dolan, 44, of Florida in Washington D.C.'s federal court. Dolan is a member of the far-right Oath Keepers group and was arrested last month.