Civil Laws

I'm not a smoker. In fact, I've never even taken a puff. But ... I think I'm gonna start. You see, if a man is going to survive, he has to adapt to his environment. Recently a significant change has occurred in my environment, and if it's not countered...

A proposal that would have banned smoking at Argosy Gaming Co. casino here has apparently died after the mayor and two councilmen said they would oppose it. Mayor Mike Hobart and two council members, Jim Rixner and Aaron Rochester said Friday they would...

If smoking is banned in Detroit bars, restaurants and workplaces, Betty Gilbert says it will hurt the city's casinos. Gilbert, who was smoking a cigarette Friday with members of her bowling team on a sidewalk near Greektown Casino downtown, should know....

Betty Gilbert says a proposed ban on smoking that would extend to the city's casinos would keep her away, just like Atlantic City's tough new smoking law will prompt her to cut back on gambling in her home state of New Jersey. Gilbert, smoking a...

Iowa's prisons are going smoke-free, despite an exemption from the state's new statewide smoking ban. Prison spokesman Fred Scaletta says officials are concerned about the rising cost of health care for inmates and banning smoking will cut those bills....

The Michigan Senate has voted to ban smoking in all bars, restaurants and workplaces. Friday's 25-12 vote came after smoking-ban legislation sat 5 months in a committee where bills traditionally have gone to die. The bill heads back to the House,...

An anti-smoking bill that appeared to be going nowhere took a surprise turn Thursday in the Senate when 25 lawmakers voted for a ban on smoking in Michigan's bars, restaurants and workplaces. The bill returns to the House, which has been waiting since...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP)- The mother of a high school student in Clinton has filed a federal lawsuit against the officer who arrested her son for using a camera rigged to give an electric shock. Christian Haughwout, a ninth grader at The Morgan School,...

Members of a Baltimore City Council committee grilled officials in Mayor Sheila Dixon's administration at a hearing last night over a bill that would permit more live-in drug treatment centers to open in residential neighborhoods. The proposal - which...

The daughter of a man who died in 2005 is suing Town Clerk Leslie Cotton, accusing Cotton of granting a fraudulent marriage license to her father that let the woman he married get a substantial part of his estate. The suit saysthat Dennis Stanek Sr....