Georgia lawmakers are advancing legislation to reform the First Offender Act, aiming to improve job and housing opportunities by sealing criminal records earlier.

As society strives to protect victims and hold perpetrators accountable, it is important to address a troubling phenomenon: the filing of false charges and false police reports against domestic ...

I read an op-ed in USA Today by Mitch McConnell, condemning tariffs placed by the Trump administration. His argument was that tariffs would hurt the economy of Kentucky. The irony is that it was ...

Yet, serious gaps in the state’s background check system allow individuals with violent or exploitative criminal histories to work in these roles. That must change. House Bill 131, HB 131 ...

Information on a letter signed "John F. Kennedy Jr." calling President Biden a traitor is circulating online and is not part of the recently released JFK files. The FBI investigated the 1994 death ...

Under current law, criminal history records can still appear in background checks even after a court grants an expungement order, due to processing delays. Supporters of the bill argued that this ...

Republicans cower from Trump and slip language into a House rule on their stopgap funding bill that would prevent any member of Congress from bringing up a resolution terminating Trump’s ...

For years, social media users have claimed that the terms "uppercase" and "lowercase" got their names becase capital letters were stored in the upper case of traditional printing presses while non ...

Figures I've seen tell me there are 23.7 million U.S. households with over $1 million in assets. Of those, about 53.7% are of Social Security age and thus likely claiming benefits. This is 12.6 ...

In her letter, Kelley also asks for confirmation from the school that background checks were not her responsibility. The school's interim CEO, Micah Bess, responded by declining the request to be ...