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Eight people were hospitalized when a truck crashed into a large group of people protesting early Tuesday.
In the Massachusetts criminal justice system, closed-door hearings are often held in private offices without public notice. The outcome is up to the discretion of a single court official who may not have a law degree.
States with large immigrant populations are particularly worried for 2020.
Starting in January, the city will add $10 million toward paying officers' salaries. The increase will provide some cops with roughly an additional $10,000 more a year.
Because of local officials’ inadequate enforcement of registration requirements, 1,259 registered sex offenders failed to follow law, Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway said.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey spoke with reporters this morning after a press conference about the state's new Security Operations Center and cybersecurity website.
The high court's decision ends the long-running legal battle to overturn the measure approved by 53 percent of voters in one of the most contentious and expensive ballot fights in state history.
Clinton formally endorsed Pritzker during a Chicago visit in April after he won the Democratic primary by a wide margin.
Among those Democrats to get a shoutout in Obama's latest round of endorsements was Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who's locked in a tight battle for the Florida governor's mansion, and Ben Jealous, who's looking to oust Maryland's Republican governor, Larry Hogan.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed a bill into law that makes California the first state to require corporate boards of directors to include women, saying that despite potentially "fatal" legal problems in the measure, it is time to force action.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is not running for re-election against Democrat Beto O'Rourke, but during an early morning interview on national television, it was clear the El Paso Democrat is on Abbott's mind.
In 2016, Coloradoans voted against abolishing slavery as punishment for a crime. This year, they had a change of heart.
The older a state is, according to new research, the more likely it is to have money problems.
Standing water is the perfect breeding ground for one of the South's most plentiful pests.
A Seattle woman says state Sen. Joe Fain raped her in 2007 after a party in Washington, D.C., spurring bipartisan calls Friday for an investigation into one of the state Capitol's most prominent Republican legislators.
Gov. Jerry Brown ushered in a new era of transparency in California law enforcement on Sunday, signing two new laws that for the first time give the public access to internal police investigations and video footage of shootings by police officers and other serious incidents.
Andrew Gillum's political committee has brought in $3.8 million from people affiliated with the Democracy Alliance of big donors, out of a total of $9.6 million. And the money is still coming in: California billionaire Tom Steyer pledged $5.2 million to Gillum on Wednesday.
Rep. Kiah Morris, D-Vermont, announced the move Tuesday on Facebook and further explained her motivations in interviews this week. Morris represented the town of Bennington.
Statewide, the NRA gave about $1 million in cash and noncash grants to public and private schools from 2010 to 2016, according to a McClatchy review of tax data collected by The Associated Press.
Mandela Barnes, who is black, has accused Republican Gov. Scott Walker of ignoring "people who look like me," said President Donald Trump wants to create "a superior race" and alleged that Republicans are "using the Donald Trump playbook trying to come at me with the most racially excitable things."
The fundraiser for Democratic opponent, Steve Sisolak., was hosted by two of Adam Laxalt's cousins in Reno, Nevada.
On Friday, Attorney General Karl A. Racine of the District of Columbia said in a statement that the new policy "ignores decades of state, federal, and international law."
Ariana Kelly, a delegate in the Maryland state legislature, introduced a bill that would require the state to include consent in sex ed classes.
The Justice Department's suit, filed in federal court in Sacramento, argues that California's approach illegally intrudes on federal jurisdiction.
In the cases the justices will hear this fall, legal observers say "state sovereignty is a really big issue."
Former Massachusetts state Sen. Brian Joyce was found dead at his Westport home, the Bristol County District Attorney's office said Thursday.
The city of Seattle plans to shut down the Licton Springs tiny-house village after March, bringing to an end one of the most controversial city efforts to help house homeless people.
Employees are the most valuable assets of an organization yet when looking for areas of efficiency and ways to save money, they aren’t always the first to be asked.
The order calls for indigenous place names to be shown on public signs and directs the state's Department of Education to work with several groups to promote the indigenous languages in public schools and universities.
In a Monday ruling, Superior Court Judge Heather Welch gave Gov. Eric Holcomb, who succeeded Pence when Pence became vice president, 30 days to deliver the documents, dating from Nov. 14 to 29, 2016, to Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana.
State law currently allows police officers and immediate family members to ask a judge for a “gun violence restraining order” that temporarily removes weapons from people deemed a risk to themselves or others.
It will go well beyond the $15 minimum hourly wage that several cities have enacted and that New York State will adopt as the base wage for many workers at the end of the year.
The surge of registered voters come as Texas has one of the nation's hottest U.S. Senate races between U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Democrat Beto O'Rourke, as well as a half dozen close congressional races that could determine control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
For now, Andrew Gillum's campaign is declining to say when or where Clinton will appear with the candidate, who remains ahead of GOP nominee Ron DeSantis in the polls.
Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced the settlement Wednesday between Uber Technologies Inc. and all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, John Kasich of Ohio, Larry Hogan of Maryland and Phil Scott of Vermont are part of a small faction of Republicans who urged caution over three public allegations that have come to light since Kavanaugh's July 9 nomination.
Eleven state delegates from Montgomery County are calling on local police and prosecutors to investigate allegations that U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh committed one or more sexual assaults while a high school student at Georgetown Prep in the 1980s.
This country has never had an effective public policy toward mental illness. In Chicago, things seem to be getting even worse.
Just ask New Haven, the home of Yale.
To meet their energy goals, cities are starting to make new buildings have solar panels or vegetation atop.
The lounges have often fallen through loopholes in local smoking bans. That's starting to change.
Photos and musings from our photographer.
When adjusted for inflation, many segments of the workforce -- including black men and people with bachelor's degrees -- are actually seeing their wages decline.
Since the U.S. started making anonymous homebuyers reveal their true identities, luxury prices in hot markets have dropped.
In the first referendum on the law since Congressional Republicans tried and failed to repeal it, three out of four states voted to expand Medicaid.
Most of the nation's rapid population growth is expected to occur in 11 Megaregions around the United States.
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Ballot measures in California and Louisiana sought to protect homeowners from huge property tax spikes.
Sheriff Michael Saudino could be heard bad-mouthing African Americans, the state's Sikh Attorney General, and Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver in comments recorded in January.
The Kennedy — which will house as many as 45 families — is the first of the new shelters Bowser first proposed in 2016 to replace D.C. General, a former hospital that was repurposed over a decade ago to house up to 270 families at a time.
This investment is in addition to the $1 billion investment in Henrico County that Facebook announced last year.
John Chiang stressed in announcing his call for an investigation that he has a "favorable opinion" of Marcie Frost. He worries, he says, that the questions about Frost will discredit the pension fund if they are not addressed in a manner that restores public trust.
Too many states manage them in ways that disenfranchise eligible voters. The fix is simple: Change a postcard.
The cleanup would have involved digging up and moving almost 14 million cubic yards of coal ash, a byproduct of burning coal for power that contains heavy metals like arsenic, mercury and lead.
In a 2-1 ruling from the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, the judges said the Louisiana provision was different than one in Texas that was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016 because it would not put an undue burden on women.
They are beginning to fight back, running for local, state and national offices, and suing jurisdictions that try to curb their political participation. They could even have a significant impact on some key midterm elections.
The nine attorneys general are from Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin.
An Associated Press review of all firearms-related legislation passed this year, encompassing the first full state legislative sessions since the Las Vegas attack, shows a decidedly mixed record.
Akron, Ohio, calls it the Innerbelt National Forest.
Long considered a conservative hero, Wisconsin’s governor is sounding kinder and gentler as he seeks a third term.
Music, film and visual arts are improving the travelling experience.
Government accounting is changing, but we'll still need smart humans in charge.
The new industry-backed regulations are likely to attract lawsuits from state and local government groups that worry they will cost them revenue, make it easier for internet providers to sue them and do little to address the digital divide.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is defending a state law that requires schoolchildren to say the Pledge of Allegiance by joining a lawsuit that could determine the legality of similar mandates nationwide.
San Francisco's Transbay Transit Center closed on Tuesday during the afternoon rush hour after officials found a cracked six-and-a-half-foot steel beam that supports the rooftop park.
Judge Dana Christensen ruled the agency did err by failing to consider how delisting the estimated 750 grizzlies in and around Yellowstone National Park might affect survival of another roughly 1,200 bears in five other recovery areas.
Georgetown — located on Winyah Bay, where multiple rivers converge — is expected to see record flooding as a result of Florence, which made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane 11 days ago in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
The company, Defense Distributed, will instead be run by new director Paloma Heindorff, who was introduced at a Tuesday morning news conference.
The General Assembly passed the legislation in its 2018 session to grant the benefit and Republican Gov. Larry Hogan publicized it Tuesday in a news release in which he announced an executive order that adds flexibility to how parents can take the time off.
On registration forms for new students, the state’s school districts now must ask whether a child has ever been referred for mental health services.
Virginia Secretary of Public and Homeland Security Safety Brian Moran said Tuesday on Twitter that he had ordered an "immediate suspension until further review."
City Attorney Pete Holmes filed a motion in April asking the court to take the historic step for all convictions and charges between 1996 and 2010 "to right the injustices of a drug war that has primarily targeted people of color."
Archbishop William E. Lori has told clergy members of the Archdiocese of Baltimore that state authorities are investigating the archdiocese's records related to the sexual abuse of children.
Ten states are demanding the Trump administration abandon a proposed overhaul of the Endangered Species Act.
A new report shows pension plan investments are seeing lower returns and are more volatile than ever.
Rep. Matt Manweller became one of the most visible faces of the #MeToo movement as it swept through the statehouse in Olympia, though most of the allegations against him involved his time as a high-school teacher and later a college professor.
In the Texas prison system, toothless and nearly toothless inmates are routinely denied dentures and instead offered blended food — often regular cafeteria meals simply pureed.
The state's Department of Corrections says its new rule is aimed at preventing contraband from being smuggled into its prisons.
Just weeks before the Merrimack Valley explosions, federal pipeline regulators audited the state’s utility commission and raised concerns about attrition among the agency’s inspectors.
The hearing marked the second time that a group of men targeted by Ronald Watts and his tactical team at an affordable housing complex on the South Side had their convictions overturned in a mass hearing.
Hepatitis C kills far more Americans than any other infectious disease.
The increase in marijuana arrests—659,700 in 2017, compared to 653,249 in 2016—is driven by enforcement against people merely possessing the drug as opposed to selling or growing it, the data shows.
Police said in a news release that Hall fired Amber Guyger after an internal investigation found the officer had engaged in "adverse conduct" when she was charged with manslaughter three days after the shooting.
BuzzFeed reported that the meeting is set to take place Tuesday at 10 a.m. between top Department of Justice officials and the attorneys general from Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, Tennessee, Utah and D.C.
More than one in five respondents to a survey about sexual harassment at the state Capitol have experienced unwanted sexual contact, uncomfortable visits or phone calls, sexually provocative jokes and stories and other forms of inappropriate workplace behavior.
Immigrants who rely on public benefits for food, housing and medical care could be denied green cards under new rules put forth Saturday by the Trump administration that would in effect limit family-based "chain migration," as the president calls it.
Four years ago, lawmakers snuck a term-limits extension onto the ballot. Now, thanks to recent statehouse scandals, voters may roll that back.
Supporters of so-called Marsy's Law hope eventually to amend the U.S. Constitution.
After months of headlines about missing runaways, foster children sleeping in offices and high-profile deaths, this was the last thing the Kansas Department for Children and Families wanted to see.
As part of its promise to make the nation’s capital a welcoming place for immigrants, the District has vowed it won’t turn over arrestees to federal immigration agents unless that person is a convicted violent offender.
After recent media reports of sexual abuse, the agency investigated all Southwest Key facilities and "was unable to substantiate multiple complaints regarding overcapacity, failure to report to law enforcement, staff qualifications, and the safety and care of children at Southwest Key."
Assemblywoman Laura Friedman, chair of the Joint Legislative Subcommittee on Sexual Harassment Prevention and Response, and state Senator Holly Mitchell, the committee’s vice-chair, each donated $2,500 each to Garcia’s reelection campaign last week.
Gov. Jerry Brown announced Wednesday that he had signed the Patient Right to Know Act, making California the first state in the nation to require physicians to inform patients when regulators put them on probation for harming those under their care.
In a denial letter, the department cited an advisory opinion from state Attorney General Mark R. Herring (D) that deemed as unlawful the plan by the school system in far southwest Virginia.
Since fiscal 2017, the first full year of privatization, the per-member cost of Iowa's Medicaid program has risen an average of 4.4 percent per year, according to the non-partisan Legislative Services Agency.
In the last three years, a dozen states have banned localities from passing paid leave requirements, more than doubling to 22 the states that now outlaw such local ordinances.
Brad Parscale, the campaign manager for Trump’s 2020 reelection effort, has said Facebook effectively embedded staff in the campaign’s offices in San Antonio two years ago, helping with technical advice on how best to reach voters with Facebook’s advertising platform.
Voters in Colorado, Missouri and Utah rejected new money sources for roads, while Californians opted to keep a recent gas tax hike.
Massachusetts voted to keep a 2016 law that protects transgender people from discrimination in public spaces.
Sheila Stubbs says she's knocked on thousands of doors in Madison, Wisconsin, in her 12 years as a county supervisor and has never had a problem in the community.
The secretary of state is tapping the social media site's extensive reach to persuade inactive voters to update their registration in time for the November election. Richardson appears on a video targeted only at the 447,000 names on the state's inactive voters list.
With less than two months until the November election, the Wisconsin Elections Commission has hired several new staff members to help with election security.
The Weinhardt Law Firm based the 35-page report released Thursday on interviews with 29 current and former IFA employees, witnesses not employed by the state and "high-level decision-makers" in state government, including Gov. Kim Reynolds, the report states.
The study also found that mail ballots cast by youngest voters, blacks and Latinos were much more likely to be rejected than mail ballots cast by white voters, and that those voters are less likely to cure problems with their ballots when notified by election supervisors than other voters.
Authorities in the town of Coeymans (KWEE'-mihnz), just south of Albany, say 61-year-old John Allen was arrested and arraigned Wednesday.
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is calling for the resignation of the Bergen County sheriff after a New York City radio station obtained a recording of the law enforcement official making racist remarks about African Americans and marijuana.
In a major victory for civil rights groups, a federal judge has banned Dallas County from using a predetermined schedule to set bail without considering other amounts or alternatives that would allow the suspects' release from jail.
California and New Mexico sued the Trump administration Tuesday over its action to repeal requirements aimed at reducing methane leakage on federal and tribal lands, according to California Attorney General Xavier Becerra.
U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison's former girlfriend Karen Monahan has posted a medical document on social media that shows she told a doctor in 2017 that she had been in an abusive relationship with Ellison.
Two mental health patients shackled in the back of a sheriff's van drowned in Florence floodwaters on Tuesday night while being moved to a different facility in South Carolina.
The digital age, new laws and recent events have created tension between government's transparency and the privacy of the people who work for it.
The rule, which is projected to save states $150 million a year, went into effect this summer.
The UT Board of Trustees will meet next week to consider hiring Boyd as interim president. The plan, proposed Wednesday morning by the board chair and touted as a "win" by the governor, calls for Boyd to serve for one or two years.
Jon Burge, the disgraced Chicago police commander and felon whose sordid legacy of torture and other misconduct exacted an agonizing price from the city, has died in Florida at age 70, according to police union officials and a Florida funeral home.
Communities across the country are facing similar challenges as more people visit public lands, outdoor recreation becomes more important to rural growth, and federal land managers struggle with tight budgets.
The public sector's workforce issues aren't going to be solved as long as the dynamics of labor markets are ignored.
The Ohio Department of Medicaid on Tuesday released a heavily redacted report analyzing the costly practices of pharmacy middlemen in the $24 billion tax-funded Medicaid program.
Early adopters have a lesson for the next generation of PFS projects: It's important to plan from the start for what comes next.
Brock Boone, an attorney with the ACLU of Alabama, described the move by John Merrill as a "violation of the First Amendment" that amounts to a decision to "discriminate against" his own constituents.
The association, which has about 30,000 members, scheduled a news conference Wednesday with Abrams at a school in East Atlanta to announce the endorsement.
A Republican activist who donated more than $20,000 to Ron DeSantis and lined up a speech for him at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club called President Obama a “F---- MUSLIM N----” on Twitter recently, in addition to other inflammatory remarks.
Democrats believe they have their best chance in years to flip crucial state attorney general seats by trumpeting the same message that drew furious protesters to town halls and to the polls last year: Republicans are trying to take away your health care.
But the voter-approved measure still faces several major hurdles.
But according to two analyses, a majority of states have nearly enough savings to weather a downturn.
Driving remains the predominant form of commuting. But for the first time, the next most common is working from home.
Thousands of thicker, heavier beer bottles are popping up on store shelves across Oregon as part of the first statewide refillable bottle system in the country, and supporters are hoping it might catch on in other states, too.
L.A. County voters approved a $1.2 billion bond measure to build permanent housing for the homeless two years ago.
Gov. Charlie Baker said the NTSB report "becomes for all intents and purposes the guidepost for all the issues around fines and penalties and everything."
Marcellus Jackson was hired in July for a $70,000-a-year job as a special assistant in the state Department of Education's Office of Civic and Social Engagement.
The Nebraska Republican Party released videos that show Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bob Krist at Billy’s Restaurant, a popular Lincoln hangout for legislators and lobbyists.
The companies failed to provide workers with a proper safety line and did not remove them from the area despite the bridge developing cracks of "significant width, depth and length at critical locations," according to a series of citations issued Tuesday by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
Louisiana's State Board of Medical Examiners voted 8-1 to remove a cap established in 2016 that limited physicians to 100 medical marijuana patients.
In the order signed by Chief Judge Daniel Hovland, of the U.S. District Court of North Dakota, Iowa is allowed to enjoin injunction proceedings filed by 12 states and agencies in a 13th.
Republicans, by comparison, saw 22 percent more people vote this season than in the 2014 midterms.
Graphic displays of information are useful only if they’re seen.
With the noxious odor of red tide hanging in the air and a fresh wave of dead fish washing up on nearby Gulf beaches, a large crowd of people incensed about the devastating algae bloom that has plagued the region for months directed their anger at Gov. Rick Scott during a campaign event in Venice Monday.
A federal judge ruled Monday that Georgia can continue using electronic voting machines in November's election despite concerns they could be hacked.
There's a lot to learn from the Windy City.
The president's trillion-dollar proposal could have been a signature achievement.
The ascent of cities is real, though things may not be as rosy as some suggest.
The FCC will vote on an order next week that would invalidate many local and potentially some state agreements with internet companies.
The median vacancy rate in St. Louis rose from 14.7 percent in 1990 to 18.5 percent in 2010, according to a recent paper on vacancy in Rust Belt cities by Alan Mallach, an urban scholar and senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress.
Council Member David Grosso (I-At Large) is introducing a bill that would make the Office of State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) an independent agency outside of the mayor’s office.
In the shadow of Silicon Valley, the hub of the world’s digital revolution, California officials still submit their records to the feds justifying billions in Medicaid spending the old-fashioned way: on paper.
Daley's challenge is to make the case that his candidacy is more back to the future than simply going back in time.
Flooding and downed trees from Hurricane Florence are blocking dozens of roads in and around Wilmington Monday, leaving the coastal city largely cut off from the rest of the state.
Former state Sen. Shortey, 36, pleaded guilty in November to child sex trafficking and faced up to life in prison.
This is the first time that U.S. senators have so directly jumped into the fight for statehouses.
Only 20 states have the reserves needed to operate for the first year of an economic downturn without having to slash budgets or raise taxes, S&P said.
When Gov. Jerry Brown said California should launch its own satellite in the 1970s, the plan was considered so far-fetched that critics dubbed him Gov. Moonbeam.
