PITTSFIELD — A proposed law to protect children from sexual abuse regardless of the state's age of consent is gaining support in the wake of new details of sexual misconduct by a former Miss Hall’s ...

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A bill to raise Oklahoma’s age of consent from 16 to 18 is now on Governor Kevin Stitt’s desk, with lawmakers largely in agreement on the need to close what they called a ...

Rep. Andrew Gray, D-Anchorage, speaks in favor of House Bill 62 on Friday, May 16, 2025. The Alaska Legislature is on pace to raise the state’s age of sexual consent to 18 next year, after the state ...

A Berkshire County legislator’s effort to close an age of consent loophole in Massachusetts has taken a step forward in the state house. After news broke of sexual predation against students at the ...

Berkshire County officials will promote new legislation aimed at protecting students from sexual predation in schools on a virtual press conference Monday. It comes after a number of troubling ...

Can a 16-year-old high school student truly consent to have sex with her or his teacher? To many — including this editorial board — the ethically obvious answer would be no. Yet Massachusetts General ...

Alaskans ages 16 and 17 would be able to consent to talk therapy under a bill introduced in the state Senate in February that would lower the age of consent from 18. A parent or guardian would still ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A bill to raise ...