State reached agreement to pay homeowners and businesses for lead-tainted water but its lawsuits against consultants that advised the city will continue.
As cases increase in Illinois, the state has fast-tracked a 200-bed veterans home to be used as a hospital. McCormick Place convention center also is undergoing a $71-million rehab to become an acute-care treatment facility.
Even though flood water has fallen to levels that make some bridges and channel roads passable in the tiny island town of Kaskaskia, Ill., local officials still don't have a good idea of how much damage more than three months of being submerged has done.
A proposed bill to relax a 20-year-old Massachusetts law restricting shadows cast by tall buildings on the Boston Common and the Public Garden is one step closer to becoming law.
Efforts are underway in Louisiana to determine the possible impacts and new requirements for highway infrastructure that may result should the use of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) grow.
Georgia State University’s $63-million, 200,000-sq-ft law college—its first dedicated legal education facility—includes 21 classrooms, a conference center, a 230-seat ceremonial courtroom and a two-story law library and sits on a tight, 2.4-acre site in downtown Atlanta.