The seating of the full jury will be a seminal moment in the historic case against Donald Trump, setting the stage for a trial amid the heat of the campaign.
A group of lawmakers from six states have worked on the first major proposals to reign in AI discrimination. But those bills face blistering headwinds from every direction. Lawmakers in Colorado, Texas and Connecticut among others are coming together Thursday to argue the case for their prop…
Virginia law allows the state’s colleges and universities to directly pay athletes through NIL deals
Virginia’s governor has signed a law that allows state colleges and universities to directly pay athletes through name, image and likeness endorsement deals. The law signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin bypasses NCAA rules. It takes effect on July 1. NIL rules, enacted in 2021, allow college athlet…
A civilian interrogator who worked 20 years ago at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq told jurors in Virginia that he never abused detainees and was actually promoted for doing a good job. Steven Stefanowicz worked for military contractor CACI when he was assigned to Abu Ghraib in 2003 a…
Tennessee’s Republican-dominant Statehouse has approved a $52.8 billion spending plan for the upcoming fiscal year that includes an eye-popping $1.95 billion tax break and refund for businesses, but little new tax relief for most Tennessee families. Even with the budget approved in the House…
Experian looked at recent trends in the HELOC and home financing market in 2023.
Jail records show the rap artist known as GloRilla has been charged with drunken driving in Georgia. GloRilla was charged Tuesday with first-offense driving under the influence of alcohol. She was also charged with having an open container of alcohol and failing to obey a traffic control dev…
A new Kentucky law aimed at curbing youth vaping is being challenged in court. News outlets report the Kentucky Vaping Retailers Association, the Kentucky Hemp Association and four vape retailers filed a lawsuit last week in Franklin Circuit Court challenging the constitutionality of the bill. It would require that any vape products sold have approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or have a “safe harbor certification.” They argue that the requirement would make most of their stock illegal and would put them out of business. Retailers say the bill violates the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which grants due process. State officials named as defendants declined to comment.
Jail records show the rap artist known as GloRilla has been charged with drunken driving in Georgia. GloRilla was charged Tuesday with first-offense driving under the influence of alcohol. She was also charged with having an open container of alcohol and failing to obey a traffic control device. Gwinnett County Jail booking records show the 24-year-old artist was arrested by police in Suwanee. The suburban community is about 30 miles northeast of Atlanta. The artist's real name is Gloria Hallelujah Woods. The jail records do not indicate whether Woods has an attorney who could speak on her behalf.
A convenience store chain where President Joe Biden stopped for snacks this week while campaigning in Pennsylvania has been hit with a lawsuit by federal officials. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says Sheetz Inc. discriminated against Black, Native American and multiracial job seekers by automatically weeding out applicants whom the company deemed to have failed a criminal background check. The EEOC filed suit Wednesday — the same day Biden stopped at a Sheetz market in western Pennsylvania. Sheetz is based in the state and also has stores in West Virginia, Virginia, Maryland, Ohio and North Carolina. The privately run family-owned company says it “does not tolerate discrimination of any kind.”
Fellow musicians are paying tribute to Allman Brothers guitarist, singer and songwriter Dickey Betts after his death at 80. The band says Betts was passionate about everything from music to fishing to golf and he excelled at whatever captured his attention. Guitarist Joe Bonamassa says that seeing Betts in concert made him want a Les Paul guitar. Berry Duane Oakley, the son of Allman Brothers bassist Berry Oakley, credits Betts for believing in him, taking him on the road and teaching him what his late father meant to the band.
The debate over alleged antisemitism at the Thomas Jefferson-founded University of Virginia is dividing, among others, Jews.
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Thousands of ordinary people who helped clean up after the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico say they got sick. A court settlement was supposed to help compensate them, but it hasn’t turned out as expected. A large majority got only the minimum award and had to file individual lawsuits to recover more. However, attorneys familiar with the issue say only one person has received a settlement after suing — and that took extraordinary luck and effort. Judges have dumped plaintiff experts. BP has fought every case. And lawyers sometimes have done a poor job representing clients. The entire sprawling process has left those who jumped into action after the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history stranded.
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Each day, more than 1,000 people are injured and nine are killed in crashes involving distracted driving, according to data reported by Drive Smart Virginia. Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. has long partnered with the nonprofit organization charged with raising awareness and changing behavior to improve roadway safety.
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BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. — A multi-million-dollar project to construct a new access road at West Ridge High School will be heard Thursday during the Sullivan County Commission meeting.
The debate over alleged antisemitism at the Thomas Jefferson-founded University of Virginia is dividing, among others, Jews.
Each day, more than 1,000 people are injured and nine are killed in crashes involving distracted driving, according to data reported by Drive Smart Virginia. Virginia Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co. has long partnered with the nonprofit organization charged with raising awareness and changing behavior to improve roadway safety.
These little devices make handguns and rifles fully-automatic and drive up the numbers of senseless woundings and killings.
Authorities have charged a Davie County man with killing his wife while his 18-year-old daughter and 1-month-old son were in the house.
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A city man is in custody after a shooting sent one woman to a local hospital.
A Scott County, Virginia, firefighter died over the weekend while battling a wildfire.
A judge may soon decide whether to try a case against a Blountville, Tennessee, woman charged in the death of her child in Sullivan County or elsewhere.
Sullivan County deputies this week seized more than 42 pounds of Methamphetamine with a street value of $1.14 million.
BLOUNTVILLE, Tenn. — A multi-million-dollar project to construct a new access road at West Ridge High School will be heard Thursday during the Sullivan County Commission meeting.
The House of Delegates on Wednesday quickly dispatched the governor's proposed budget amendments. That likely paves the way for a fresh start on the spending plan in a special session.
Convenience stores across Virginia stopped selling Virginia Lottery tickets for part of a second day Tuesday to protest Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s proposal to toughen a bill that would legalize skill games.
Rather than sign or veto a legislature-approved right-to-contraception proposal, Gov. Glenn Youngkin offered a substitute that the bill’s patrons and legal experts say is not as strong.