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The RI ACLU announced Friday that a consent order has been entered in the federal lawsuit filed two weeks ago against the Warwick City Council for "stifling the free speech rights of local resident Robert Cote, who was barred last month from speaking at a

Warwick resident Michael O’Neil filed suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court, arguing that the state had violated his Second and Fourteenth Amendment rights by refusing to renew his concealed-carry pe…

DULUTH, MN (KDAL) - On Sunday, the Minnesota Air National Guard inducted 11 service members into the 2022 Flig...

Today the Minnesota Air National Guard honored 11 individuals by induction into the "2022 Flight of Honor."

RI ACLU claims victory in case. U.S. District Court Judge Mary McElroy on Friday signed a consent judgment declaring unconstitutional a state law that gave the Administrator of the Division of Motor Vehicles blanket authority to deny vanity license plates based on whether they “might carry connotations offensive to good taste and decency.”   The judgment was entered in a suit filed last March by ACLU of RI cooperating attorneys Thomas W. Lyons and Rhiannon Huffman on behalf of Sean Carrol...

Sean Carroll can keep driving his anti-fossil-fuel message through Rhode Island and beyond, after all. Carroll, of Scituate, ran afoul of the state Division of Motor Vehicles last year because of his vanity license plate, which reads “FKGAS.” The DMV initially saw no problem with the plate and gave it to Carroll, but when the agency realized the plate could suggest a four-letter word popular in rush-hour traffic, the DMV ordered Carroll to turn in his plate or have his registration can...