As we move into winter, now is as good a time as any to make sure your tools are clean and ready to go for next season.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — The Illinois Senate Criminal Law Committee passed a bill Wednesday to automatically seal records for people convicted of nonviolent felonies. Felony convictions currently ...

At a March 2024 rally at the Connecticut capitol building, an advocate holds a shirt that says "pass clean slate" with pass crossed out an replaced with "enforce." Credit: Molly Ingram / WSHU CT ...

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The recent arrest of a Flint councilman has prompted some national media outlets to target the state’s Clean Slate law, suggesting that giving people a second chance is to blame. Just as troubling, ...

Slate says it will do what it can to buy American-made parts, but some are simply not available in the U.S. For instance, the truck's manual-crank window regulator is sourced from Brazil, on which the ...

The “Clean Slate” Act, which could have sealed thousands and potentially millions of nonviolent criminal records in Illinois, had bipartisan support but failed to pass in the final flurry of ...

SPRINGFIELD — Criminal justice reform advocates say legislation to seal criminal records for certain nonviolent crimes, which passed Friday in the House, would unlock economic opportunity for ...

RICHMOND — A new “clean slate” law set to take effect next year will shield some past crimes from public viewing. Advocates say that matters for people whose convictions haunt them for years after ...

It’s part of a nationwide effort to reform the criminal justice system. The legislation would automate the sealing of eligible criminal records here in Massachusetts. 22News spoke with Springfield ...

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