A 2014 law requiring all New Jersey municipalities to outfit new police patrol cars with dashboard cameras is unconstitutional because it does not provide an adequate funding source, according to a state board ruling.
A new federal study finds Oregon's child welfare system is failing across the board when it comes to keeping thousands of children in state care safe and healthy. According to the report, caseworkers are still taking too long to check on allegations of abuse and neglect.
Gov. Sam Brownback plans to take more money from the state's highway fund, cut higher education spending and scrutinize other options in order o close a widening $290 million budget gap.
Georgia's big plan to invest billions of dollars in new road projects may be about to get a giant thumbs up after Gov. Nathan Deal said preliminary results from an independent review show the effort could boost the state's economy and reduce traffic delays.
The U.S. Department of Justice has informed state officials that it is investigating Connecticut's "motor voter" program -- under which citizens can sign up to vote at the Department of Motor Vehicles -- and has found "widespread noncompliance" with federal laws.
Los Angeles workers would be able to earn at least six paid sick days annually -- twice the state minimum -- under a proposed law that the city council backed.
Five former New Orleans police officers involved in the Danziger Bridge shootings after Hurricane Katrina, or the coverup that followed, pleaded guilty in federal court in New Orleans on Wednesday, taking reduced sentences and avoiding another trial after their previous convictions were thrown out.
Facing a potentially bruising ballot fight over real estate development next year, Los Angeles' political leaders announced Wednesday that they will seek a sweeping update of the plans that govern the size and density of new buildings that go up in scores of neighborhoods.
Thirty years from now, downtown Las Vegas could be brimming with trees and parks strategically placed near many more residential buildings, markets and transit hubs. That's the much-simplified vision of a new downtown master plan that's aimed at making the city's inner core a better place to live and work by improving mobility, economic opportunities and aesthetics.
In a city where mass transit is synonymous with broken promises and disappointment, downtown Miami's Metromover has been the little engine that could. The junior-sized, fully-automated trains ferry nearly 10 million passengers around the downtown and Brickell neighborhoods each year. But now the free Metromover rides are at risk. Miami-Dade County Commissioner Barbara Jordan is pushing to charge Metromover riders, arguing it's unfair that Metrorail and bus riders pay $2.25, while Metromover passengers pay nothing.
