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Good evening, I’m Abe Shapiro and this is Disabulletin, where we cover the top stories impacting the disability community across the country and around the world. Tonight, we begin the first leg of an adventure covering the history of Special Education Law in the United States. This is the next chapter in Disabulletin’s continuing coverage of the recent Supreme Court …

The U.S. Court of Appeals is considering Attorney General Curtis Hill’s request for a stay on the operations of a South Bend women’s health clinic. Hill’s request for a stay was denied by a federal district court on June 7. The Attorney General’s office claims the clinic, Whole Woman’s Health, is missing a required licence from the Indiana State Department of …

The Indiana Sheriff’s Association proposed a tax rate increase to ease overcrowding of low-level felons in County Jails, last week. The rate is currently at thirty-five dollars per day for a low level felons and the proposed twenty dollar increase would aid in solving overcrowded jails, says Hendricks County Sheriff, Brett Clark. According to the Terre Haute Tribune Star, the …

Jury selection started today in the trial of the former manager of the Little Nashville Opry House, which burned down in 2009. James Bowyer has been charged with arson in the case. He was the business and personal partner of Esther Hamilton who, with her late husband, opened the facility in 1974. Brown County Prosecutor James Oliver and Defense Attorney …