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The law makes public possession a gross misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail for the first two offenses and up to a year for additional offenses
The AskRail program gives dispatchers information on train contents and provides FFs with hazmat training additional chemical details
Speech-to-text technology scans incoming and outgoing calls for the state’s 80,000 inmates with automatic searching for select keywords
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The protests sweeping the nation, advocates say, are showing just how much work still needs to be done to mend the relationship between the black community and those meant to protect and serve them
News of the arrest came moments after Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz acknowledged the “abject failure” of the response to this week’s protests and called for swift justice for officers involved
“There IS a need to DO something. If you wear a badge and you don’t have an issue with this...turn it in”
The video will be used as a training tool to show officers how not to detain a suspect
In this tipping point moment for Minneapolis and St. Paul, city leaders face a defining challenge
Livestream video showed protesters entering the building, where fire alarms blared and sprinklers ran as blazes were set
From waiving permits to shutting down entire city blocks, leaders in Oregon are committed to getting their restaurants back on track
“Please, please, Minneapolis,” Mayor Jacob Frey said just before midnight, as violence escalated. “We cannot let tragedy beget more tragedy.”
A rolling census count shows that states with large rural populations are lagging behind the rest of the nation in answering the 2020 questionnaire
The Republican Texas Supreme Court was unified in the conclusion that “fear of contracting a disease is not a physical condition” that justifies voting by mail