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Vermont’s Roman Catholic Diocese faces 118 more clergy misconduct claims
May 12, 2025
The submissions come after 67 previous child sex abuse lawsuits prompted the state’s largest religious denomination to pay out $34.5 million in settlements and push for bankruptcy protection.
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Local Activism Highlights Missing and Murdered Indigenous People in what is now known as Shasta County
May 09, 2025
This week, local Tribal members led a prayer walk to demand justice for missing and murdered Native people, particularly those local to the North State.
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A cop with a secret
May 05, 2025
The problem-solving court, as the state calls it, was created in 2007. Participants, who have felony driving under the influence and drug convictions, avoid prison by going through community-based, intensive outpatient treatment.
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Counties and municipalities have spent about $7 million of their opioid settlement funds so far
May 04, 2025
The money has gone to residential treatment program scholarships, mental health liaisons in police departments and a recovery center in Alfred.
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28 people charged with violating new ‘National Defense Area’ along New Mexico border
April 30, 2025
Trump ceded public lands to military, giving nod to federal troops to arrest and detain migrants.
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In rural Nebraska, it’s hard to find an attorney. It’s going to get much harder.
April 25, 2025
About a third of Nebraska’s 93 counties have three or fewer active attorneys residing and practicing in them. Twelve counties don’t have a single one.
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To serve and protect? Police chief fired after allegedly terrorizing woman
April 11, 2025
The protection order, requested by the 24-year-old woman and granted by a judge, came after the Mitchell police chief allegedly sent her many lewd photos on Snapchat, repeatedly drove by her home and let her know that he knew when she was home alone.
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Federal judge rules prison heat conditions are unconstitutional, but doesn’t require air conditioning
March 26, 2025
About two-thirds of Texas prisons are not fully air conditioned, and dozens of inmates have died in the sweltering heat.
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Election results: Door County supports Crawford for Supreme Court; Sturgeon Bay re-elects Ward as mayor
March 01, 2025
A majority of the county’s voters also voted in favor of a referendum to add the existing voter ID requirement to the state constitution, which also won statewide.
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Mat-Su school district reaches settlement in lawsuit over student free speech rights
February 28, 2025
The district must allow student political speech but can dictate the time and place of student protests, according to an agreement.
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Former Vermont resident faces federal firearm charge related to killing of border patrol agent
February 18, 2025
Federal prosecutors charge that Michelle Zajko provided false information to a federally licensed firearms dealer in Mount Tabor when she purchased firearms that were later traced back to two people involved in a fatal shootout in Coventry (Pop. 111) last month.
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‘Finally Free’: Leonard Peltier heads home to North Dakota
February 18, 2025
The AIM activist was released from federal prison after gaining clemency from President Joe Biden. He spent 49 years behind bars in what he has long maintained was a wrongful conviction in the deaths of two federal agents.
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Officials plan Palmer Courthouse expansion as caseloads swell
February 13, 2025
The courthouse is one of the busiest in the state and needs room for more judges, officials said.
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Traffic Scheme Nets Texas County DA’s Office Millions
February 12, 2025
Two days after Oklahoma Watch visited Guymon to interview officials, the district attorney chose to end the public safety emphasis program.
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A case against drug distributors over the flood of pills that ravaged West Virginia is back in court. Here’s what to know.
February 05, 2025
Cabell County and Huntington could get another chance in their fight against opioid distributors. But first, the West Virginia Supreme Court must decide if public nuisance law applies to legal products.
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