Photo: Dr. Judy Levison, a professor at Baylor College of Medicine, works from her home in Houston on June 15, 2023. Levison retired from her OB-GYN practice after a six-week abortion ban took effect in Texas. She’s now part of a lawsuit seeking to clarify the scope of exceptions for abortion under state law. (Photo
Recently, Prescott was in the news because of several sightings of mountain lions in the area, and reports of several family pets killed while unattended, along with reports of numerous sightings on security cameras. As citizens, there are steps we can take to minimize the possibility of an unwanted wildlife encounter. Because of the beautiful
Photo: Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple” and Laura Esquivel’s “Like Water for Chocolate” are among the books that could be prohibited under Arizona’s ban on sexually explicit materials in schools A new ban on books containing sexual content makes its way into Arizona public schools this week, and critics worry self-censoring will add further stress to already
Photo: North Carolina State Rep. Julie von Haefen, a Wake County Democrat, denounces the newly reinstated 20-week abortion ban in North Carolina at a news conference in Raleigh on Aug. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum) Democratic candidates have decried North Carolina’s newly reinstated abortion restrictions after a federal judge allowed a state law banning nearly all abortions
Angela Housley was halfway through her pregnancy when she learned the fetus was developing without parts of its brain and skull and would likely die within hours or days of birth, if it survived that long. The news came during her 20-week ultrasound. “The technician got a really horrible look on her face,” Housley said.
Amid the economic turmoil brought on by the pandemic, which hit bars and restaurants particularly hard, some authorities rolled out a crowd-pleasing salve to help businesses stay afloat: the (temporary) legalization of to-go alcoholic drinks. Prior to the pandemic, many local authorities had banned bars and restaurants from selling liquor to-go with only a handful