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- Due to a law taking effect today, residents of Maine are no longer required to hold a permit in order to carry a concealed weapon. Read more at the Washington Times.
- The Los Angeles Times reports that the LAPD underreported "serious assaults" as lesser crimes for an eight year period. This resulted, the paper claims, in an artificially low rate of violent crime for the city.
