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Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Foley released an urban policy proposal Wednesday that contained wording identical to passages previously posted on Internet websites of public policy think tanks.
Police Chief Thomas Jackson apologized to the family of Michael Brown and to protesters in a video released Thursday.
Police increased security measures at transit hubs around New York City on Thursday, hours after Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said that his security forces uncovered a plot to attack its transit systems.
Some states with the lowest overall poverty rates in 2013 also had some of the highest percentages of low-income residents living very far below the poverty line.
Iowa Senate seat might turn on chicken poop and hogs.
Airports try to keep pace with influx of animals on property.
It's the largest-ever settlement with single tribe.
A Philadelphia program is showing promise for engaging entrepreneurs in solving urban problems.
Dan Newman, California Gov. Jerry Brown's political spokesperson, referring to Neel Kashkari's handing out of gift cards for gas at a campaign event. Kashkari is Brown's Republican opponent for governor.
Wearing safety goggles and wielding a white mallet aimed at a wind-up toy train, GOP gubernatorial candidate Neel Kashkari on Wednesday made his latest attempt to move the needle in a contest stacked highly in favor of his Democratic rival, Gov. Jerry Brown.
Hundreds of Denver-area high school students walked out of classes Wednesday morning, continuing several days of protest over controversial changes being proposed to their history curriculum.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr., who last year declared a crisis in America’s legal-defense system for the poor, is supporting a class-action lawsuit that accuses Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the State of New York of perpetuating a system that violates the rights of people who cannot afford to hire lawyers.
Gov. Corbett on Wednesday signed the bill that authorizes Philadelphia to impose a $2-a-pack tax on cigarettes to help raise money for the city's cash-starved schools.
Hospitals are projected to save $5.7 billion this year as previously uninsured patients gain coverage through the 2010 health care law, the Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday.
A Mississippi county has illegally held inmates in jail for as long as a year without appointing counsel or presenting cases to a grand jury, the American Civil Liberties Union argues in a lawsuit, and a law professor said Wednesday that something similar could be happening elsewhere in the state.
A new federal rule opens the door to counting municipal bonds in bank assets.
Susan Popkin of the Urban Institute, which studied what happens to people when their housing assistance runs out.
Arkansas' outgoing Democratic governor is one of the most popular governors in the country, but his successor may be a Republican he's already beat.
One store vandalized, fire set at another in Ferguson, Mo.
After being inundated for weeks with negative feedback, the state's Alcoholic Beverage Commission withdrew from consideration the proposed plan.
A state law could stop city pension reform from cutting retirement systems for crucial departments.
Marijuana is legal in Washington, but residents are still subject to $27 fines for smoking or possessing marijuana in public. A review of summonses this year showed more than 80% of them issued in 2014 came from one police officer.
Georgia's education organizations get refrigerators, firefighting gear, floor polishers and assault-style rifles from the Pentagon.
Unaffiliated voters now outnumber those registered as members of one of the two major parties in more than half of North Carolina’s 100 counties.
A federal judge on Tuesday lambasted what he called a "corrupt culture" within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department as he sentenced six current and former members of the department to prison for obstructing a federal investigation into abuse and corruption at the county jails.
Education Department statistics released Monday say 1.3 million homeless children were enrolled in U.S. schools in the 2012-2013 school year - an 8 percent increase from the previous school year.
The number of health insurance companies offering plans in the marketplaces this fall will increase by 25 percent, giving consumers more choices for coverage, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced Tuesday.
A reluctant District of Columbia Council voted unanimously Tuesday to allow people to carry concealed handguns in the nation's capital for the first time in nearly 40 years.
Facing the prospect of a federal lawsuit over abuse and corruption at the Rikers Island jail complex, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Tuesday that he would seek to change civil service laws to allow his administration to use uniformed officers from outside the Correction Department to help fix the system.
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