This post was authored by Matthew Loescher, Esq.

Representatives of the City of Paris, Kentucky, applied for a zoning map amendment to rezone the 47 acres of property from a conservation district to light industrial. The Paris City Commission and its representatives entered into a non-disclosure deal with a prospective corporate purchaser to conceal its identity. A bourbon distillery was to be built on the property, but the local Planning and Zoning Commission held a hearing during which evidence was presented, and then voted six to three to deny the zone map amendment. The Planning Commission was overruled by a

Lawmakers in Washington state have passed a bill that would prohibit the sale, manufacture and import of assault weapons in the state.

“Both chambers of the Washington State Legislature have now approved a historic ban on the sale of assault weapons in Washington state,” Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a press releases Saturday shortly after Democrats in the state Senate successfully pushed through HB 1240.

“The Senate today put public safety above the interest of the gun lobby,” Ferguson added. “The devastation of mass shootings extends far beyond the casualties and injuries. Mass shootings traumatize entire communities. We

On the eve of Donald Trump’s New York City arrangement, he hired a new attorney.

The former president of the United States welcomed white-collar defense attorney Todd Blanche to his legal team to represent him in the case brought against him by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Blanche is said to serve as “additional firepower” to the Trump legal team, a source told Fox News, as the politician is to be charged with 34 felony counts on April 4 after he was allegedly paying hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels while he was a presidential candidate in 2016.

• Ex-Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway was back for a 2nd meeting with Manhattan prosecutors Wednesday.

• She directly links Trump to a 2016 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen has alleged.

• A Manhattan grand jury is hearing evidence relating to the illegal, election-eve payment.

Kellyanne Conway returned on Wednesday for a second meeting with Manhattan prosecutors, who are probing Donald Trump’s alleged involvement in an illegal, 2016 hush-money payment to silence an adult film actress.

A state grand jury has been hearing evidence since January in connection

Yvette Harrell was six weeks pregnant when she fatally shot another woman.

Now in prison awaiting trial, she claims her unborn baby is being unlawfully detained.

In an emergency petition in a Florida court, Ms Harrell’s lawyer argued that jail staff have endangered the child through “a lack of reasonable and necessary prenatal care”.

The argument draws on the concept that a foetus is a person with rights.

The idea that an unborn child is a person with constitutional protections has gained traction since the US Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to