A New Jersey man is facing a charge of violating a Scottsdale law for setting off fireworks which led to a brush fire last week. Twenty-one-year-old Vincent Viganola says he was hiking with friends when he set off consumer fireworks …
Gov. Nikki Haley has signed into law a bill designed to stop a South Carolina town from using a traffic camera to send speeders a ticket in the mail. The law bars towns from mailing traffic tickets. It requires officers …
A week after two unarmed Louisiana insurance fraud investigators were shot and killed while looking into a case, state lawmakers are working to give the investigators’ families some compensation. The Louisiana Senate unanimously agreed Wednesday to expand existing law to …
A measure to place caps on payouts from successful medical malpractice and other civil cases has been signed by the governor. Under the law, a $750,000 cap would be placed on non-economic damages such as pain and suffering, and the …
Tennessee cities and counties that want to make it tougher to discriminate against gays and lesbians face a stumbling block under a new state law, and now some Nashville city council members and others are suing to challenge that law. …
Research conducted by moneysupermarket.com shows one in six motorists – 16 percent – having broken the law by driving a car they weren’t insured to drive. Seven percent admitted breaking the law by getting behind the wheel of their own …
Law enforcement officials in Iowa say a new law that makes it illegal to text and drive has been difficult to enforce. The Legislature enacted a law last year that bans texting while driving and forbids the state’s youngest motorists …
State highway officials have announced that 330 people have been cited for violating the state’s hands-free cell phone law during a one-day sweep last week. Authorities said on Tuesday that the April 21 crackdown was part of National Distracted Driving …