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A police shooting tests South L.A.'s fragile goodwill toward cops.
As Chris Christie crosses the country this year as chairman of the Republican Governors Association, raising money for GOP candidates, he'll take a detour this week to spend three days in Mexico. He will meet with Mexico's president and business leaders.
Number of people identified by two conservative advocacy groups as registered to vote in both Maryland and Virginia. The groups say at least 164 voters cast ballots in both states in the 2012 election.
Washington, D.C., Police Chief Cathy Lanier, explaining that the coming shortage in the District's police force could be predicted. The mandatory retirement age is 60, with waivers allowed up to 64, though the rules haven’t been enforced in years.
Detroit's historic Chapter 9 bankruptcy will culminate in a high-stakes court battle starting Tuesday that will determine the fate of the city's sweeping plan that would pay pensioners more than financial creditors, preserve the Detroit Institute of Arts and slash more than $7 billion in debt while reinvesting in services.
This year, for the first time, the state of Minnesota is picking up the $134 million tab for full-day kindergarten, a move educators hope will provide an academic jump-start for the state’s youngest learners.
Portland joined Los Angeles County, Montgomery County (Maryland) and two Minnesota counties in a petition filed with the FCC this week.
As he prepares to lead a trade mission to Mexico this week, Gov. Christie has been relatively silent on an issue vexing the Republican Party: immigration reform.
West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant's Office will start charging the public to obtain documents that were previously available free and online.
Louisiana's new antiabortion law can take effect Monday as scheduled, but provisions requiring doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals cannot be enforced against clinics and doctors who filed suit, a federal judge ruled Sunday night.
The text over an image tweeted from Texas Gov. Rick Perry's personal account Sunday night. The image was of a photo of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg and read "I don't always drive drunk at 3x the legal limit ... but when I do, I indict Gov. Perry for calling me out about it. I am the most drunk Democrat in Texas." The tweet has since been removed, and the governor said he did not condone it.
MIT's Ceasar McDowell contends big data alone does not provide a full picture of the life of a community, arguing that high tech must be matched with high touch.
Medicaid pays for most unintended pregnancies, spurring even some of the most conservative states to make long-term contraception that's proven to be cheaper and more effective than the pill more accessible for doctors and patients.
The bill is aimed at reversing the loss of location shoots to other states that offer rich incentives to studios and producers.
Paula Sophia lost a primary runoff by 22 votes.
"Yes-means-yes" law would require California colleges and universities to adopt a standard requiring "unambiguous consent" for sex among students.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Amount in grants awarded to states by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration between 2006 and 2012 that remain unspent.
Amount it cost Arlington, Va., to buy a new Macbook Air for every freshman in three of the county's high schools. The district aims to provide every student with a laptop by 2017.
Yes-means-yes should replace no-means-no as the standard for sexual consent -- or the lack of it -- on California's public and private college campuses, the Legislature decided Thursday.
Nine years after Hurricane Katrina, the government has forgiven $391 million in disaster loans for Louisiana, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. That's 95.5 percent of the Katrina-related disaster loans.
A federal lawsuit filed Thursday against police and the governments of Ferguson and St. Louis County seeks $41.5 million on behalf of five protesters who say that they were arrested and beaten, tear-gassed or shot with rubber bullets.
Utah's governor says the state should appeal a court ruling that favors the family on the TV show "Sister Wives" and strikes down key parts of a law criminalizing polygamy.
Pennsylvania got some of the conservative changes it asked for, but the plan approved by the federal government contains a number of departures.
State District Judge John Dietz declares Texas' 'Robin Hood' school finance system is still unconstitutional.
In what some call an effort to demonize the Islamic faith, all but 16 states have recently considered banning their courts from taking foreign, international or religious law into account.
The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday denied a request by the state's top education official to extend a flexibility waiver under the No Child Left Behind Act, a decision that will place restrictions on nearly $30 million in annual federal funding for local school districts beginning with the 2015-2016 school year.
Her new policy ideas draw praise and criticism from critics.
A measure that regulates law enforcement use of drones was passed by California lawmakers and now awaits the decision of Gov. Jerry Brown.
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