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A federal judge early Monday morning ordered a recount of Michigan's presidential ballots to begin at noon on Monday, and for the state to "assemble necessary staff to work sufficient hours" to complete the recount by a Dec. 13 federal deadline.
The Army Corps of Engineers on Sunday denied permission for the Dakota Access pipeline to cross under a section of the Missouri River, handing at least a temporary victory to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its supporters.
Teachers and staff in the Hillsboro School District will have to come up with something a little extra creative this year if they want to decorate their rooms for the holidays. That's because, according to a memo sent to staff and shared by KATU, Santa Claus is off the decoration menu.
The death toll from a fire that tore through an electronic music show in Oakland soared to 33 on Sunday, and criminal investigators are looking into how a warehouse that allegedly had been converted into an artistic and performance space without permits could have become such a death trap.
Two cities are testing a new, safer way to immobilize vehicles when their drivers haven’t paid parking tickets.
Massachusetts legislators, scrambling to pay for regulators to oversee the nascent recreational marijuana industry, may turn to a controversial source: the state’s emergency savings account, meant only for fiscal crises.
Gov. Bruce Rauner blames the veto on Democratic leaders who backed out of a deal to pass comprehensive pension reform by the end of the current general assembly.
Gov. Kate Brown presented a $20.8 billion budget Thursday, which would close half of Oregon's looming $1.7 billion shortfall through cuts to existing programs.
Smaller cities and counties may not be as willing to remain “sanctuaries” for undocumented immigrants as big cities under a Donald Trump presidency.
Prosecutors expect to produce ‘voluminous’ material for discovery, including two million pages of documents and two terabytes of data.
The Brown administration will go to court on Friday to block an unprecedented and potentially disruptive one-day strike next week by California’s largest state employee union.
Efforts to pinpoint the cause of deadly wildfires that engulfed two tourist towns outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park continued Thursday. Gatlinburg Fire Chief Greg Miller said the devastation has been “unfathomable” and warned that the death toll could continue to rise.
A New Jersey appeals court Thursday struck down controversial changes Gov. Chris Christie's administration made to the state's civil service system -- the latest development in a years-long battle over the rules governing how thousands of public workers are promoted.
In tapping Rep. Xavier Becerra, a veteran Los Angeles lawmaker and son of Mexican immigrants, Gov. Jerry Brown placed a stalwart defender of immigrant rights at the forefront of anticipated legal battles between California and the incoming Trump administration.
The $7 million incentive package Carrier Corp. will receive as part of a deal the company reached with President-elect Donald Trump represents a departure from how tax credits are typically used in Indiana.
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The top election official in Kansas asserted without evidence that millions of noncitizens voted in the presidential election moments after he certified the state's election results on Wednesday.
The State Board of Elections voted 3-2 along party lines Wednesday to order a machine recount of 90,000 votes in Durham County, backing a request from Republicans and North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory's campaign.
Smoking is to be prohibited in federally subsidized public housing nationwide as soon as early next year under a rule announced Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Retired Dallas Police Chief David Brown has a new job.
A longshot campaign to block Donald Trump from the presidency using the Electoral College has added another renegade elector from Washington state, the group announced at the Capitol in Olympia on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court justices gave a mostly skeptical hearing Wednesday to a Los Angeles lawyer who argued for limits on the government's power to indefinitely jail immigrants facing deportation because of crimes they've committed.
The hundreds of arrests during the months of protests against the Dakota Access oil pipeline in North Dakota have created an unprecedented burden for the state's court system, which faces huge cost overruns and doesn't have enough judges, lawyers and clerks to handle the workload.
No charges will be brought against Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police officer Brentley Vinson in the September shooting death of a man in University City, District Attorney Andrew Murray announced Wednesday.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein paid $3.5 million Tuesday to clear the way for Wisconsin's presidential vote recount but had a judge reject her lawsuit to require all Wisconsin counties to do the recount by hand.
Three people were confirmed dead Tuesday after a fire that destroyed more than 150 homes and businesses as flames whipped by high-speed winds raged overnight through town and displaced more than 14,000 residents in an inferno witnesses called unlike any in living memory.
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