Courts

Former Guthrie carpenter files discrimination charges
Molly Diers, who worked in the scene shop for 13 years, said she suffered retaliation for speaking up.
Supreme Court could gut public-sector unions
Conservative justices seem poised to overrule a 40-year-old decision that allowed states to compel payment of union fees.
U.S. District Judge William Orrick of the Northern District of California ordered the Interior Department to reinstate the Obama-era regulation aimed at restricting harmful methane emissions.
Kentucky moves to add guns to schools after school shooting
The Kentucky legislature is considering arming teachers and administrators in response to a school shooting there Jan. 23.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away a challenge to California's 10-day waiting period for firearms purchases that is intended to guard against impulsive violence and suicides.
3 Trump judicial nominees withdraw, raising some questions about vetting
The Trump administration and the GOP-controlled Senate have been confirming judicial nominations at a record pace but the breakneck speed and nontraditional vetting has come at a cost recently.