From the States
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Florida pays hunters to remove invasive pythons
With $25,000 up for grabs in prizes, including the Ultimate Grand Prize of $10,000, the python contest kicked off Friday.
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Special investigation petition filed in Springfield, Ill. after rep’s indictment
Ammons is alleged to have conducted a kickback scheme where state-funded grants were given to nonprofits in her district, two of which directly employed her daughter.
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Virginia lawmakers defend cannabis budget language
el. Paul Krizek, D-Fairfax, and Sen. Lashrecse Aird, D-Henrico, released a joint statement after confusion over the budget language led prosecutors, lawmakers and law enforcement officials to question whether some marijuana laws remained in effect.
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Houston Police chief apologizes as 264,000 crime reports went uninvestigated
The police chief's apology came one day after Whitmire announced he was forming an independent panel to review what is now an HPD internal investigation into how hundreds of thousands of reports went nowhere.
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Trump looms large in NC elections, turnout pivotal to expected congressional runoffs
“The two potential runoff elections for congressional nominations appear to be battles of which candidate can align him or herself more with former President Donald Trump.”
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Montana law enforcement seized record amounts of fentanyl last year
Knudsen said that while the state has increased resources to combat fentanyl, it's up to the Biden administration to secure the Southern border.
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Florida lawmakers pass bill to prohibit kids from having social media accounts
According to the bill, children under age 14 will be prohibited from creating a social media account, while parents would be empowered to opt-in for their 14- and 15-year-old minor children.
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Georgia sanctuary cities could lose taxpayer funding under new bill passed after Laken Riley murder
Republicans say Laken Riley's death in Athens at the hands of a 26-year-old Venezuelan national was avoidable and Joe Biden's immigration policies are partly to blame.
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'Preventable and predictable': WA lawmaker laments trooper's death
Trooper Christopher Gadd, 27, was a married dad whose father and sister are also in law enforcement.
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Majority of House Republicans who voted to impeach Paxton won primary races
On Tuesday, school choice candidates won big whereas the majority of the candidates Paxton endorsed lost.
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Georgia lawmakers advance bill targeting squatters
Bill wouid would create offense of unlawful squatting when someone resides in a property without owner's "knowledge or consent."
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Los Angeles finally allowed to clean encampment trash from highway underpasses
After a November fire shut down the I-10 for weeks, officials applied new scrutiny to homeless encampments under or near highways as potential safety hazards, leading some city councilmembers to invoke the city’s anti-camping ordinance in some underpasses in their districts.
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Musk says he won't donate to Biden or Trump
The Tesla and SpaceX owner's announcement came after a meeting with former President Donald Trump on Sunday.