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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A 41-year-old Jacksonville woman was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison for assaulting officers during an immigration operation, federal authorities announced Wednesday. Senior U.S. District Judge Harvey E. Schlesinger handed down the sentence to Jennifer Susan Cruz following an investigation into the January 13 incident in Jacksonville. According to court documents, federal immigration officers assisted by the Florida Highway Patrol were conducting an operation in Jacksonville on January 13 to arrest individuals unlawfully present in the United States. Cruz drove past the site while recording on her cellphone, parked nearby and began shouting at a trooper...

More than 500 law firms moved to file an amicus brief on Friday in support of Perkins Coie's lawsuit against the Trump administration's executive order that targeted the firm over its representation of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. "The Executive Order at issue in this case, and the others like it, take direct aim at several of the Nation's leading law firms and seek to cow every other firm, large and small, into submission," the amicus brief says. "The looming threat posed by the Executive Order at issue in this case and the others like it is not lost on anyone...

SACRAMENTO -- A game of political chicken under way in the Capitol has left California's cities and counties facing a fiscal disaster of historic proportions. When the Legislature finished approving a state budget recovery plan sought by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger this week, it left one extremely important piece of business unfinished. That is the replacement of $4 billion a year in local government revenues that were eliminated when Schwarzenegger rolled back the vehicle license fee last month. Incredibly, when lawmakers approved measures for the March ballot calling for a $15 billion bond issue to pay off the state budget deficit...