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Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said in April that Flint’s water was safe to drink. But here in Flint, where Mr. Snyder’s name is synonymous with villainy for many residents, his declaration has been largely ignored, and the crisis of unclean drinking water in the Great Lake state nicknamed “Pure Michigan” is very much ongoing.
"Hopefully he will never be employed by any [police department] in America," Tamir Rice's mother said during the news conference. "He is unfit to be a police officer, period."
The aggressive gesture drew a gasp from the audience and, judging from her expression, clearly startled Mahlberg. When Quam was done with his rebuttal, he then dismissively tossed the mic back at Mahlberg, again drawing commotion from the audience.
In defiance of threats from the Justice Department, public health advocates in Philadelphia have launched a nonprofit to run a facility to allow people to use illegal drugs under medical supervision.
An Associated Press review of a Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics database shows more than 60 civil asset forfeitures with nearly $200,000 in property taken by state and local agencies under a law that lapsed on June 30.
Successful efforts to bring the use of data and research into decision-making are both top-down and bottom-up.
Double-murderer Edmund George Zagorski, 63, had been scheduled to die Thursday night at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, in an execution he wanted to happen by electrocution.
Dr. Michael Golding compiled a "lengthy, detailed report" that inmate attorneys say contains "serious allegations" that data reported to the court overseeing a long-running case involving medical and mental health care inside California prisons "is inaccurate and has been presented in a materially misleading way," court documents say.
The structure of their tax systems doesn't align with their evolving economies.
As Secretary of State, Brian Kemp is in charge of elections and voter registration in Georgia.
With all the new information governments have available, it's too easy to focus on improving existing processes rather than on better ways to address underlying problems.
Since making landfall on Wednesday as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, the now tropical storm has left thousands of people without power, uprooted trees, turned homes and marinas into ruins and killed at least 2 people.
A federal grant program that helps diverse, underserved neighborhoods should be preserved -- and expanded.
Legalization measures passed in Michigan but failed in North Dakota.
Suddenly and without warning, news reports saying Chesapeake fines and jails teenage trick-or-treaters have gone viral.
A Cole County judge ruled Tuesday that Missouri election officials can no longer tell voters that a photo ID is required to cast a ballot.
People who registered to vote in the 24 hours after singer-songwriter Taylor Swift endorsed two Democrats running for Congress. In all of September, 190,178 new voters were registered; in August, just 56,669.
A nonprofit helped Athens, Ga., address this often-ignored need and wants to expand its services.
It is not as strict as the leaked version but would still drastically limit what benefits they could use without risking green cards or permanent residency status.
The effort in particular was aimed at locating victims of sex trafficking.
Bill Gates, in a Tuesday blog post, said he would contribute to the Yes on 1631 campaign, vote for the measure and encourage others to do the same.
A new scholarship program made possible by state funding will provide free tuition to University of Illinois at Chicago for high-achieving local students.
Advocates on both sides of the issue say that medical cannabis programs are increasingly functioning as a Trojan horse for de facto legalization in the 40 states where the politics of legalization aren’t quite ripe yet.
The new law, signed Tuesday by Mayor de Blasio and introduced by Council Speaker Corey Johnson, will allow adults born here to change the gender on their birth certificate without a medical professional's approval -- instead letting them "self-attest" their gender.
Two controversies erupted at once Tuesday, one over a state online voter registration system and the other involving the storm's disruption of the last day that Florida residents could become eligible voters in 2018.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to toss out an appeals court order that allows North Dakota to enforce its voter ID requirement during the 2018 elections.
Sen. Bernie Sanders will campaign for Democratic candidates across the country this month at more than 15 planned events in nine states -- including a number of presidential primary hot spots.
Jeff Sessions' announcement came the day after President Donald Trump -- who has repeatedly highlighted Chicago's stubborn gun violence -- suggested the department employ stop-and-frisk policing to battle crime.
Education has emerged as an issue this fall beyond school board and superintendent races.
When the Legislature passed rules this year requiring emergency power in long-term care facilities, Hurricane Michael was exactly the kind of disaster lawmakers had in mind.
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