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Now that Michigan voters have approved medical use of marijuana, one community is considering adding pot-providers to its zoning law. - [Read more]

Dear Carolyn: My significant other and I are both in our early 50s. We are very much in love. My future mother-in-law probably suffers from borderline personality disorder... - [Read more]

The Supreme Court has ordered the Ombudsman to proceed with the filing of graft charges against two brothers and a sister-in-law of former first lady Imelda Marcos in connection with alleged behest loans made in 1975 and 1976 during martial law. - [Read more]

As the defunct Your Black Muslim Bakerys last CEO faces charges in the 2007 killings of Oakland journalist Chauncey Bailey and two others, bakery associates recently have run afoul of the law again. - [Read more]

A state law used by police to arrest customers of prostitutes in Waikiki and other specified areas of Honolulu is defective and cant be enforced, the state Intermediate Court of Appeals has ruled. - [Read more]

Catawba County law enforcement were on alert Saturday night at Fred T. Foard High Schools prom after four teenagers were charged last weekend with underage drinking at their prom festivities. - [Read more]

A 2005 law change that allowed voters to request absentee ballots without listing a reason has had the dual effect of making both voting and cheating much easier, election officials say. - [Read more]

Ten former lawmakers received enhanced, early pensions when they voluntarily stepped down from the Legislature, under an expansive reading of a law that is supposed to award such pensions to public officials who are defeated by voters. Shown are the number of years the lawmakers served in the Legislature and their hometowns at the time of their service; in most ... - [Read more]

Hes a ballplayer-turned-bond trader-turned basketball coach, and he has been successful at each, but Craig Robinson is happily resigned to being known as the First Brother-in-Law. - [Read more]

Critics of the Voting Rights Act contend its an antiquated artifact, an outmoded law that did its job well and ought to be retired. - [Read more]

The government agreed to implement Islamic law across a large swath of northwest Pakistan on Monday in a concession aimed at pacifying a spreading Taliban insurgency. - [Read more]

Witt will play police detective Nola Falacci, who will be partnered with detective Mike Logan (Chris Noth). She’ll be a temporary replacement for Julianne Nicholson, who is on ... - [Read more]

Rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die, the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld Oregon’s one-of-a-kind physician-assisted ... - [Read more]

Republican presidential candidate John McCain is pledging support for a proposal to expand protections for disabled people under an 18-year-old landmark civil rights law. - [Read more]

Gov. Ted Kulongoski has signed a new law that will allow Attorney General John Kroger to crack down on debt collectors in Oregon. - [Read more]