Swift's bill would limit judges' discretion by creating sentencing ranges for criminal offenses. Repeat offenders would get longer sentences than first-time offenders. Swift says the guidelines would discourage judges from giving sentences that are considered too lenient or too excessive. One bill would restrict the number of passengers allowed in a car to the number of available seat belts. Another would require children younger than 4 to be strapped in a child car seat in the back seat.
Nurses say they have to do too much with too little staff.
Hospitals say money alone won't solve the problem. The contracts expire May 31. If the heirs of the family buried in the cemetery can't be found, the state will have to get a court's permission to move the nine graves in order to finish a new Missouri 150. Nebraska Lincoln - Conservationists fear that continued development along Lincoln's North 27th Street will encroach on a shrinking salt marsh and adversely affect the endangered Salt Creek tiger beetle. The beetle is believed to exist solely in Lancaster County's salt marshes.