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By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts will not testify at an upcoming Senate Judiciary Committee hearing expected to focus on judicial ethics, he said in a letter on Tuesday to the committee chair. The committee’s Democratic chairman, Dick Durbin, had asked the chief justice to appear before the panel to address potential reforms to ethics rules governing the justices. The senator cited “a steady stream of revelations regarding justices falling short of the ethical standards.” Roberts said he would “respectfully decline”...

(Reuters) – North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum on Monday signed into law a bill that would ban most abortions, creating an exception for rape and incest victims but only during the first six weeks of pregnancy. The law, which makes it a felony for a doctor to perform an abortion, provides other exceptions including to save the life of the mother or in cases where her health is at serious risk. But rape and incest victims would have to carry their pregnancies to term unless “the probable gestational age of the unborn child is six weeks or less,” Senate Bill 2150 says. The b...

The Taylorville Park District swore in the new Park Board, approved a new dog park, and budget at their monthly meeting. The board heard from Quinn Broverman, who passed around the new approved budge...

Demolition has begun to tear down an older portion of Taylorville High School to make way for the new Performing Arts Center and Field House addition.  Work is being done by Midwest Constru...

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Joe Biden’s team has picked Julie Chavez Rodriguez, a senior adviser at the White House and deputy campaign manager of his 2020 presidential campaign, to be his campaign manager for the 2024 election, according to a source familiar with the plan. Rodriguez, who is director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, has agreed to take the role, the source said. The source later added that Biden has yet to make the offer to Rodriguez himself. Rodriguez was Biden’s senior advisers’ top choice for the role after they inte...