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City Council members in Evanston are considering a proposal that would ban hands-free devices while driving. The ordinance would be one of the toughest cell phone bans in the country, keeping all electronic devices out of driver's hands.Ald.

It could be "a mess," said Justice Stephen Breyer.That sentiment seemed to sum up the intellectual somersaults performed by the justices of the U.S.

The United States Supreme Court hears arguments Wednesday in a major case testing the rights of teachers in religious schools.

The U.S. Supreme Court has opened a new term with a raft of hot-button issues headed its way. The biggest is the legal challenge to the Obama health care law, a case almost certain to be heard this term.

If the U.S. Supreme Court term opening Monday were a Broadway show, all eyes would be on the stars waiting in the wings.The constitutional challenge to President Obama's health care overhaul almost certainly will be decided this term, but at this point it has not formally made it onto the docket.

A controversial law enforcement technique called a gang injunction "safety zone" has been getting the attention of law enforcement in at least eight states.

Alabama's toughest-in-the-nation law on illegal immigration went into effect Thursday, a day after a federal judge upheld some of its key provisions, but the court battle over the issue appears far from over.State law enforcement can now question and detain without bond people they suspect may be in