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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

The Arizona attorney general is asking a federal judge to disband the police department of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah, pointing to statements by the town marshal admitting law enforcement officers discriminated against residents who do not belong to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A majority of the Arlington County Board on Tuesday declared its opposition to a referendum on the Columbia Pike and Crystal City streetcar projects, a step that took opponents of the projects by surprise and set up a possible showdown between pro- and anti-streetcar factions in November’s general election.
A state law criminalizing consensual homosexual conduct is unconstitutional, an Alabama appeals court has ruled.
Despite Idaho's vaunted distaste for the federal government, it's one of just four states where getting a permit for dumping pollutants into waterways requires dealing with the federal Environmental Protection Agency instead of the state.
Government leaders in the Chesapeake Bay watershed on Monday signed a broad agreement to restore the health of its waters, as the blue crab and oyster populations continue to fluctuate and scientists complain about toxins that are changing the sex of fish.
The former campaign manager for New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez (R) pleaded guilty on Monday to illegally grabbing emails meant for the governor and other top officials.
California is being hit hard with a whooping cough epidemic, according to the state's public health department, with 800 cases reported in the past two weeks alone.
The North Carolina Supreme Court has struck down the state's first local ordinance banning people from using cellphones while driving.
A panel of Kansas judges ruled Wednesday that a new education funding law complies with a state Supreme Court mandate to boost aid to poor public schools, but they didn’t narrow the scope of a lawsuit over whether the state is providing enough aid overall.
The legislature passed the labeling law in April, and Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the bill in May.