The school bus was displaying its stop sign and flashing red warning lights, a police report said, when Tillman Mitchell, 17, stepped off one afternoon in March. Then a Tesla Model Y approached on North Carolina Highway 561.

The car — allegedly in Autopilot mode — never slowed down.

There are a lot of bad feelings that surface during and after divorce. It is necessary to get these unpleasant emotions out through a healthy outlet, and replace them with more positive ones. Keeping a journal and regularly expressing your thoughts and feelings is one method for doing just that. When you do it properly, you'll see the rewards

In New York, two lawyers responding to an angry judge in Manhattan federal court blamed ChatGPT Thursday for tricking them into including fictitious legal research in a court filing.

Attorneys Steven A. Schwartz and Peter LoDuca are facing possible punishment over a filing in a lawsuit against an airline that included references to past court cases that Schwartz thought were real, but were actually invented by the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot.

Memorial Day is today. It is designed to honor the men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. You may plan on taking the day off of work, going to the beach, having a BBQ. However, do you know what the LAW says you are to do on Memorial Day?

In September 2020, Donald Bertram pulled up to Timothy Huff's house, as Mr. Huff was in the yard doing yardwork, he hopped out of his car, walked into the open garage, picked up a $500 leaf blower and drove off. The leaf blower was not his. The leaf blower was not loaned to him. He just walked up and took it.

I will admit that I have not used this defense, but at times you have to get creative based on the facts of the case. Every case is different - this one is clearly a very different set of facts.

In Xenia County, a judge in Ohio ruled that trans woman Rachel Glines did not commit indecent exposure..

Lynette Christmas still has nightmares about the day that forever changed her life. It was Valentine’s Day of 2016. Christmas was pulled over in Harris County, Georgia for a routine traffic violation. The officer, Deputy Thomas Pierson, gave her a warning and sent her on her way. But minutes later, he pulled her over for a second time.

You just filed your taxes and thank goodness that is behind you. Lets just hope the IRS feels the same way about your taxes - and the law.

In 2021, the IRS was handed a decisive defeat in court. After years of fighting, the IRS was definitively told that it does, in fact, have to follow the law, even when it’s very inconvenient.

This week our Horry and Georgetown Community learned of the passing of local attorney Scott Joye. This was not a chronic illness. This was not an old man. Scott was a young, vibrant attorney gone to soon from what appears to be a heart attack. The law is a stressful field and to many in it die young.

Skittles has been in the news lately. Proposed legislation in California would ban the candy , which was first introduced in North America in 1979. At issue are several chemicals most people have never heard of — brominated vegetable oil, red dye No. 3, propylparaben, titanium dioxide, and potassium bromate — that critics allege are dangerous

“When you don’t like the message,” the old saying goes, “shoot the messenger.”

In the wake of Supreme Court rulings they don’t like, leading Democrats in Washington renewed calls last year to “pack” the Court with more liberal justices. Were that to happen, it would surely set off “tit for tat” fights the next time a Republican sits in the White House.

The NTSB said in a statement that a worker was "ingested" into the engine of an aircraft while it was at a gate with its parking brake set, the outlet added.

American Airlines flight 3408 — an Embraer E175 — had just arrived from Dallas, Reuters said, adding that the Federal Aviation Administration said the airport was closed after the incident.

The plan was that the AI would run on a smartphone, listening in to the proceedings of the courtroom before instructing the defendant on what to say via an earpiece. The ‘robot lawyer’ was all set to defend a speeding ticket on its first day in court next month.

It has been reported that the parents of a 9th grader in South Carolina are suing after their daughter was allegedly accosted for not saying the Pledge of Allegiance while she was walking to class instead of stopping to reciting it.  Marissa Barnwell, the student, said during a news conference on Thursday that she was walking quietly to her class at River Bluff High School in Lexington, South Carolina and decided not to stop walking to recite the pledge or a moment of silence. A teacher at the school allegedly yelled at her, confronted her, and pushed her against a wall nearby.

Do you value your rights? If you do, please thank Sam Adams and others like him who rebelled against the reigning British Government, at the risk of treason, to preserve what they believed were our human rights. Unfortunately, not everyone enjoys the same rights we do, as the United Kingdom just exemplified, where police just arrested a man for posting an allegedly offensive tweet.

This is the time of year when students are picking their colleges and post-graduate schools to attend in the fall. Some of them are preparing to pay excessive amounts of money to attend law schools just in order to get permission from their state to receive a license to practice law. They may be looking for a school close to them, one that has their legal focus as an option, or maybe they want to go to the highest ranked school.

On the morning of June 14, 2022, a new mural was unveiled above the entrance to Leavitt’s Country Bakery in the small town of Conway, New Hampshire (pop: 9,822). Inspired by the nearby White Mountains, the mural features a mountain range—of pastries. The whimsical idea and style was a perfect fit for the small-town bakery, and certainly a step up from the drab wooden façade that preceded it.

In 2018, SC passed the "South Carolina Homeowners Association Act" as a huge triumph in the tyranny of HOA's. In actuality it did two things:

1. Made HOA's file their governing documents with the resident counties Register of Deeds (ROD), and

2. Created a complaint/investigation team at the Department of Commerce.

Yeah, yeah.

Recently, two of 14 defendants standing trial in a RICO case that is expected to take about a year to prosecute regarding alleged gang activity in Atlanta, Georgia, have reportedly made the prosecution's case against them a bit stronger. According to reports, the two conducted a hand-to-hand drug deal in open court during jury selection proceedings this week.

A proposal from the Biden Administration that would require banks to monitor personal accounts and report all financial transactions over $600 to the IRS is under fire. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen defended the proposal by saying, “It’s just a few pieces of information about individual bank accounts,” the secretary said.