Gov. Robert Bentley reversed his position and announced last week that the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency would return driver's license examiners to 31 rural counties, at least on a limited basis.
The Judicial Conduct Board, said 50 images emailed to Justice Michael Eakin could "best be described as mildly pornographic or sexually suggestive in the vein of material that appears commonly in Playboy magazine."
Is it still gambling if the sports are fake? The Nevada Gaming Commission concluded that daily fantasy is gambling and needs to be licensed in the state.
Under the Police Department's new rules on shootings by officers, the Police Advisory Commission's director will have equal standing with four deputy commissioners in deciding whether or not police actions are justified. The city's police union is not on board with the changes.
Despite an Obama administration effort to stop using the justice system to round up low-level suspects for deportation, an inadvertently released email indicates local police are still using ethnic profiling against immigrants.
Experts say cutting ozone, the lung-damaging gas in smog, to federal health standards while meeting state targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions will require a radical transformation of California's transportation sector over the next two decades.
Judge Barry Williams denied a motion by attorneys for Sgt. Alicia White to suppress two statements that she provided to internal investigators. Five of the officers' attorneys had filed motions to have their statements suppressed on the grounds that they were made under duress and in violation of their rights.
Sgt. Terie Evans, who is white, has sued the LAPD, alleging that her supervisors retaliated and discriminated against her because of the racial connotations in accusations against her by a black policeman.
