MARQUETTE, Mich. (WLUC) - Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed bills intended to enhance student protection and school security. Several of the measures are dedicated to improving the ...

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however Queenslanders are no closer to getting confirmation that the changes will include harsher sentences for juvenile rapists. The Crisafulli government remains steadfast that any upcoming ...

A NEW Government Bill that could see water bosses facing jail time for not taking drastic action to reduce sewage spills has been praised by campaigners in Southend. Labour’s Water Bill was ...

Multiple candidates vying for New York City mayor are hoping to distance themselves from their past support of "defund the police" initiatives. Democrats, like New York State Sen. Zellnor Myrie ...

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Drug dealers and repeat drug offenders could face harsher penalties under two bills Del. Jed Arnold, R-Smyth County, introduced on Jan. 8. Arnold is the chief patron of HB1848 and HB1849, which target ...

A Colorado woman accused of killing her two young children lost her bid to avoid life in prison in the United States after a United Kingdom judge ruled that she can be extradited to the states for ...

The last executions in the United Kingdom were more than 60 years ago and the sanction was finally removed from the statute book in 1998 ... The calls for harsher measures in the case of Axel ...

Southport child killer Axel Rudakubana received the second-longest life sentence in English history and the government does not ever want to see him released, Downing Street has said. Sir Keir ...