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JOLIET — The Will County Sheriff's Office announced on Friday that deputies are seeking your help in locating a 17-year-old girl named Carson McCarty. Carson was last seen in January in the 1600 block of Washington Street in Joliet. Carson is 5-foot-6, 130 lbs, with black hair and brown eyes. Possible sightings of Carson have been reported near Larkin and Jefferson Streets in Joliet, in the

HARLEM, NY – In 1989, 15-year-old Yusef Salaam – along with 4 other black and brown teenagers, “the Central Park Five” – were arrested and charged with the brutal rape of a woman in Central Park, a crime they did not commit. The Five would be convicted and incarcerated, and served years in prison before their eventual exoneration in 2002. On Thursday night, Salaam, who now represents City

Oregon’s Public Records Advocate Todd Albert will serve four more years in the job, where he is responsible for resolving disputes over access to public records and training government officials and members of the public on transparency laws.

Albert has held the job of public records advocate since late 2020, when he was appointed by then-Gov. Kate Brown after prior advocate Becky Chiao

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld Maryland’s ban on so-called “assault weapons” earlier this month, likely setting the stage for the next major Second Amendment showdown at the Supreme Court. The case, Bianchi v. Brown, features Maryland residents who challenge the constitutionality of a 2013 state law that generally prohibits them from buying or possessing any firearm