For years to come, Sheriff Joe Arpaio can expect to have a federal judge looking over his shoulder, watching almost his every move and those of his deputies.
San Francisco officials on Tuesday moved to curb their partnership with U.S. immigration authorities, by ending a practice that facilitates deportations by extending the detention of illegal immigrants arrested for crimes.
A federal judge denied a pair of requests Tuesday to suspend key provisions in Maryland’sbrand-new gun-control law, ruling that the plaintiffs had not made the case for the “extraordinary relief” they were seeking.
California farmers could be growing industrial hemp -- not marijuana, mind you -- by spring after Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation that would permit California farmers to grow the long-banned distant cousin of the trippy herb. But only if the federal government lifts its hemp cultivation ban.
Colorado transportation managers aren't waiting for emergency highway dollars to filter in before they send crews out to repair roads and bridges washed out by September flooding.
With Maryland’s strict new gun-control law set to take effect Tuesday, Randy Mattoon was among a crush of customers who came early Monday to Pasadena Pawn and Gun, where a sign outside advertised it was the “last day” to buy many assault rifles.
Under a draft of a Wisconsin bill, the maximum compensation for wrongful imprisonment would increase from $5,000 annually with an overall cap of $25,000 — the lowest level of compensation of states that offer it — to the federal level of $50,000 annually.
After experiencing a homicide rate that earned it international attention last year, Chicago is upending the traditional style of policing and using social networks to rank people’s likelihood of killing and being killed.
Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a lawsuit today challenging voting restrictions adopted by North Carolina after the Supreme Court struck down a core provision of the U.S. Voting Rights Act, said a person briefed on the plans.
A state judge ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry in New Jersey, a decision that reverberated across the state and sets up a final battle between gay rights advocates and Gov. Chris Christie at the state Supreme Court.
Californians who use the Internet will get new protection against identity theft and tracking of their personal data under a cluster of bills signed into law Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
New York is indeed an expensive place, but experts say that alone doesn’t explain a recent report that found the city’s annual cost per inmate was $167,731 last year — nearly as much as it costs to pay for four years of tuition at an Ivy League university.
Nonprofits that provide housing and other services to people with mental illness and other disabilities do not have to pay property taxes, the state Supreme Court ruled today, ending a battle with nine Bergen County communities that had challenged the tax-exempt status of one charitable agency nearly a decade ago.
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