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It took 13 years for the department to meet enough requirements to have the consent decree lifted. Serpas said it typically ...

A federal judge threw out the criminal charges against the former F.B.I. director James Comey after finding that the ...

A federal judge threw out the criminal charges against Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, after finding that the ...

If I hear another person that NOPD can get back to ‘real policing,’ I think I’m going to lose it,” consent decree monitor ...

"Knowing that natural rights cannot be taken away by government serves as a check on the power of the state," writes John ...

U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan is expected to end the consent decree that has governed the NOPD since 2013. The city ...

Listuguj, a Mi'kmaw community in Quebec north of Campbellton, filed a motion in Miramichi's Court of King's Bench to intervene in an ongoing Aboriginal title case brought by eight other communities ...

Zomato is developing a feature to share customer phone numbers with restaurants upon consent. Learn about this new initiative ...

Gov. Henry McMaster recently signed Act No. 68 (H4267) designating Nov. 21 as Mayflower Compact Day in South Carolina. This ...

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