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Last week, corrections officials faced a backlash after banning nonprofit groups from mailing used books to prisoners. This week, their math is raising eyebrows.
The city's law department filed a civil complaint on Thursday in the Circuit Court of Cook County "that pursues the full measure of damages allowed under the false statements ordinance," a spokesman said in a statement to The Times.
Kentucky officials announced Wednesday their plan to take advantage of what's called "rapid DNA" technology in which machines analyze a forensic sample and can produce a DNA profile within about two hours.
Former Douglas County prosecutor David Emadi, who started his new job Monday, also said his office will soon decide whether to prosecute the campaigns of Atlanta mayoral candidates.
The bill, introduced by Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, however, would exempt safety, sensitive security jobs and those tied to a federal or state contract or grant from the policy.
High-paying blue-collar jobs lifted incomes in West Virginia, New York and Illinois last year, even though the states lost residents.
The United States is almost alone among industrial countries and other democracies in putting most of the onus of registering to vote on individual voters.
Parents of students killed and injured in the 2018 mass murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have filed more than 20 lawsuits, alleging negligence by the Broward Sheriff's Office, the Broward County School Board and Henderson Behavorial Health and "willful and wanton negligence" against former BSO school resource officer Scot Peterson and campus monitor Andrew Medina.
Idaho Gov. Brad Little approved legislation Tuesday adding work restrictions and other conditions to the voter-approved Medicaid expansion initiative.
Despite scores of protesters both outside and inside the legislative chambers Wednesday, Ohio lawmakers approved what both sides are labeling the strictest abortion law in the nation.
Building anything anywhere is a short-sighted approach to fixing the affordability crisis.
As the idea of "free college" gains popularity, Virginia and Iowa are instead focused on career and technical education.
For sustainability to be successful, it must also be affordable. Spokane, Wash.'s mayor thinks it can be.
The way governments are measuring results is becoming kinder -- and more effective.
How housing shortages, NIMBYism and traffic are reshaping America.
Its problems didn't start with Trump, but he ironically may be helping to turn some of them around.
Well-run governments must have clear lines of leadership. Just ask Pueblo, Colo.
California Sen. Richard Pan, a pediatrician who introduced a bill to require the state health department to sign off on medical exemptions and to let the department revoke exemptions that are inconsistent with CDC guidelines. Outbreaks of measles -- a once-eradicated disease -- have been reported in more than a dozen states this year.
States that have loopholes that make it legal to rape your spouse. Minnesota and Ohio are considering bills that would close them.
The part of the 2017 law that high-tax states are battling in court is likely helping them lower their debt -- at least in the short-term.
Protecting providers from competition is the enemy of efficiency and integrated mobility. It's an issue that New York City's congestion pricing will address.
Students in Indiana's Elkhart School District are served breakfast and lunch at school, but may go hungry on nights and weekends. So, the school joined forces with an innovative nonprofit to ensures kids in need have enough to eat.
A California court decision could harm not just businesses but also workers and consumers. And the misguided idea shows signs of spreading to other states.
The action removes a barrier for doctors, manicurists, home inspectors and just about anyone else who needs a license to do their job.
The Justice companies owe more than $4 million to the federal government, according to a new Ohio Valley ReSource analysis of federal data.
The lawsuit says the law stigmatizes lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students and is discriminatory.
The National Rifle Association and its supporters wasted no time Tuesday suing Pittsburgh, the City Council and Mayor Bill Peduto following the mayor's signing of three bills restricting the use of military style weapons from within city limits.
The bill, which was considered in public hearing Tuesday and left pending in the committee, was created to protect "the right of an unborn child."
At a tense hearing, the education secretary was pushed on whether her department has the authority to allow school districts to use federal funds to arm teachers.
Cities argue that the fees and fines are true obligations owed to them by residents and that pressing their advantage to get these funds is necessary and forthright.
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