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The new law will require deputies “to do a little more research” when they encounter someone carrying a firearm, Hillsborough Sheriff Chad Chronister said
First responders in Cuyahoga County held an NDMS exercise using a plane full of patients
The state Supreme Court found the nearly real-time surveillance of a person’s social media was the “functional equivalent” of tapping their phone
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It’s not just campaigns running ads. With the click of a button and a few hundred dollars, ordinary people or businesses can now purchase political ads that are directed at specific groups of people to see.
Previously, the effort to require sprinkler retrofitting faced objections from building owners who said the fixes would be too expensive and would drive up rents.
One opponent of proposed school integration policies even suggested the transfers could lead students to consider suicide.
States throughout the U.S. will be monitoring Ohio’s results because reducing nutrient pollution from farms has been a much bigger challenge than slowing it from sewage plants and factories.
Experts say it’s possible that Russia and other hostile nations opted to sit out the 2018 midterms in preparation for this year’s high-stakes presidential contest.
“I can’t tell you how many people are missing from Navajo,” said Navajo Nation lawmaker Amber Crotty. “To me, that’s an injustice.”
The bill would also allow the agencies to use drones to fight wildfires.
Proponents have argued there is a constitutional right to publish the blueprints for making guns on 3D printers, but critics counter that making them readily accessible online could lead to an increase in gun violence.
Lawyers for plaintiffs say people should file claims even if they’re not sure Purdue’s drugs were involved in their injuries.
As many as 12 percent of voters nationally, or an estimated 16 million people, will continue to use electronic-only machines -- which do not produce an auditable paper record of every vote cast -- despite well-documented cybersecurity risks.