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Ruling from Judge Michael Graffeo, who concluded that the city of Birmingham did not violate state law when it covered up a Confederate monument with plywood. The Alabama Memorial Preservation Act, which Graffeo ruled has no legal authority, bans local governments from moving historical monuments that have been on public property for at least four decades.
Amount that the city of Denver will pay toward a person's mortgage if they have "experienced an income reduction due to involuntary employment change" and were making below 120 percent of the area's median income. Federal workers who are not receiving paychecks because of the shutdown can apply for this new offer.
America has seen little progress in reducing speeding deaths for decades.
Three Hallandale Beach commissioners blasted their colleague for her lack of discretion -- but stopped short of saying they would demand an apology.
UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Carol Folt will leave her post in two weeks -- months earlier than the timeline she suggested when she announced her resignation Monday.
A judge has ruled the Alabama Memorial Preservation Act doesn't have any legal authority and the city of Birmingham doesn't have to take down its wooden screen placed around a Confederate monument in Linn Park.
Kasich had said he was likely to land a TV deal after leaving office. He now will appear regularly on shows featuring CNN hosts Anderson Cooper, Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo.
On his first day leading the Georgia Senate, new Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan said he was not aware the chamber was going to make changes limiting the amount of time an alleged victim can report claims of sexual harassment involving a senator or staffer.
The shutdown has affected about 3,000 Nevadans. Without the deferral, students at UNR face a Jan. 19 deadline to pay fees and tuition. Payments are due at other NSHE institutions soon after.
The city of Denver will cut checks to ease the pain of the federal government's partial shutdown.
State agencies are warning food stamp recipients to carefully budget their grocery purchases once they receive their February benefits weeks earlier than normal due to the partial government shutdown.
A new law in Massachusetts aims to curb short-term rentals, which critics say are limiting the affordable housing stock and turning residential property into unregulated hotels.
Rhode Island state Rep. Charlene Lima, who introduced a bill that would incorporate pet custody into divorce laws.
Bill that the husband of Oregon Gov. Kate Brown sent to President Trump after he cleaned up a national park's bathroom. Park employees are among the hundreds of thousands of furloughed during the government shutdown.
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's plan to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 census, which will help determine U.S. elections, congressional seats and federal funding decisions for a decade.
States are scrambling to figure out how to fund the $4-billion-a-month food stamps program -- and whether to keep cash welfare going. Some say it's "probably not possible."
In a crackdown on political candidates who file campaign reports late or not at all, the Oklahoma Ethics Commission for the first time has filed lawsuits over unpaid late fees.
"This is just one of the many reasons I love my husband, Dan," Gov. Kate Brown wrote.
After years of lagging behind other states, New York radically overhauled its system of voting and elections on Monday, passing several bills that would allow early voting, preregistration of minors, voting by mail and sharp limits on the influence of money.
The Tennessee Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the Nashville vote that created a civilian board with the power to investigate police was legitimate, rejecting the police union's challenge and clearing the way for the board to begin work.
Vice Mayor Reinette Senum has launched a crowdsourcing campaign called "Goat Fund Me," hoping the online fundraising efforts will garner $30,000 to work with local ranchers on a prescriptive grazing project on city-owned land, including 450 acres of greenbelt.
Local governments may feel disappointed by a recent court ruling which sided with the Federal Communications Commission’s rollback of regulations related to the deployment of 5G communications technology.
President Donald Trump’s warning that the partial federal government shutdown could last “for months or even years” has states, cities and businesses increasingly nervous.
In a 65-page opinion issued the same day the rules took effect, the judge issued a temporary injunction requested by attorneys general in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Legislators are seeking to roll back some of the high-profile ballot measures that voters approved in November. They also want to make it harder for initiatives to pass in the future.
As most Americans struggle with money management, some states are making schools teach kids about personal finance. What's the best age to start?
Chant from teachers in Los Angeles, who went on strike Monday. It's the first strike the nation's second-largest school district has seen since 1989.
Lead allowed in bottled water under FDA regulations. Meanwhile, the EPA only requires municipal water systems to alert customers if samples exceed 15 ppb, and the agency recommended a threshold of only 20 ppb for its voluntary school testing program.
The Midwest provides a lens for larger patterns of racial division across the country.
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