Philadelphia has been awarded a $3.5 million MacArthur Foundation grant to fund an aggressive plan to reduce its prison population by 34 percent over three years while addressing racial bias across the criminal justice system.
A task force appointed by Gov. Rick Snyder to investigate the Flint water crisis told lawmakers Tuesday that the situation in Flint was a failure of leadership in the state, a clear case of environmental injustice and a reason to change the state’s emergency manager law. But that there is no single piece of legislative action or a bill that could have prevented the crisis in Flint.
A 17-year-old was shot by Wichita police. Police say he was armed and running toward the police officer who fired. His mother says her son was "unarmed and shot in the back while running." The shooting was captured on camera.
Republican-controlled chamber scheduled a Jan. 12 hearing on whether Kathleen Kane, who is facing criminal charges and whose law license has been suspended, can continue to function as the state's top law-enforcement official.
Pacifist Klansmen and gay-tolerant anti-Islamists fight in this Dallas suburb, which rarely saw public dissent beyond a split City Council vote until recently. Residents are having trouble keeping up with all the counter-protests and counter-counter-protests.
