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Bastrop officials were elated when the city won first place Community Achievement Award for Outstanding Community Improvement in Basic Services at the Louisiana Municipal Association’s Conference held in Lake Charles from July 31 to August 2. These awards are given to municipalities that have outstanding projects encouraging advances in municipal services. The entries fall into one of three categories: basic services, community services, and economic...

The current attempt to amend the felony murder rule in California has been a multiyear effort. This work, like all our work, was borne out of our personal experiences with clients, incarcerated individuals and family members with loved ones serving life sentences under this antiquated doctrine. This rule represented to us an injustice that deserved a remedy. In 2016, we began working together on this...

Some Vermont dairy workers say their wages and living conditions have improved, thanks to an agreement reached last year between the workers and Ben & Jerry’s , a division of global consumer products company Unilever. Times are tough on dairy farms around the country, with milk prices declining for the fourth year in a row. But 72 farms that supply Ben & Jerry’s earn a...

Early each morning, computers spit out maps of Los Angeles, marked with red squares where a complex algorithm has judged that property crimes are most likely to occur. As police officers patrol the streets, they keep these areas in mind, perhaps taking a detour to pass through on the way to a call, or warning people not to leave valuables in their cars. But so-called...