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The Missouri Supreme Court issued this week a set of minimum standards for municipal courts, a long-awaited response to charges that municipal courts in the St. Louis area are unconstitutional debtors' prisons that routinely violate the rights of the poor.
A key member of the Michigan Attorney General's team that has been tasked with investigating the Flint water crisis has resigned from his role after he was arrested Saturday night in Wayne County on suspicion of drunken driving, according to a news release from the Attorney General's Office.
Republican Lt. Gov. Phil Scott will sell his share of DuBois Construction if he is elected governor, he said on Saturday.
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The Obama administration Monday is calling on cities and counties to rethink their zoning laws, saying that antiquated rules on construction, housing and land use are contributing to high rents and income inequality, and dragging down the U.S. economy as a whole.
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A constitutional tweak became embroiled in talk of impeachment, misuse of funds and an alleged affair by Gov. Robert Bentley.
Pennsylvania has joined a majority of states in filing a lawsuit against three drug manufacturers, claiming they have illegally profited off the opioid addiction and overdose crisis sweeping America.
Republican gubernatorial nominee Phil Scott stuck to his message of making the economy the state's first priority at Thursday's forum on women's issues, while Democratic candidate Sue Minter said her experiences as a working mother gave her insight into what the state's women need.
The two nominees for New Hampshire governor differed over raising the minimum wage and making Medicaid expansion permanent, but found areas of agreement during their first showdown Wednesday afternoon.
Since 2007, the city of Indianapolis has raised income taxes twice in order to hire new police officers.
Tulsa prosecutors charged the cop who fatally shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher with first-degree manslaughter, saying the officer "reacted unreasonably by escalating the situation" and "becoming emotionally involved to the point that she overreacted."
Presiding over a city in the national glare for a yearlong failure to control sharp spikes in gang shootings and gun deaths, Mayor Rahm Emanuel delivered a speech Thursday night aimed at convincing Chicagoans he's getting a grip on the problem.
People should stop talking so much about racism and policing, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, Donald Trump's running mate, said Thursday.
A tiny river town in Adams County has no mayor, no clerk and, apparently, no financial records. The state auditor's office has ruled the Village of Rome "unauditable" and is warning that legal action may follow.
Protesters gathered in Charlotte for a third straight night Thursday, as National Guard troops patrolled the streets and the city instituted a midnight curfew in hopes of heading off the violence that erupted after a black man was fatally shot by police.
North Dakota will offer an affidavit to voters who don't bring an identification to the polls, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
The Kentucky Supreme Court dealt a decisive blow to Republican Gov. Matt Bevin's executive power Thursday, finding that he exceeded his statutory authority by cutting state universities' budgets by 2 percent this spring, after the General Assembly had already appropriated their funding.
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Republican gubernatorial challenger Bill Bryant on Wednesday sought to turn festering problems at a state psychiatric hospital into a central campaign issue, calling Gov. Jay Inslee's record one of "mounting incompetence."
Answering the call of automakers who don’t want to tangle with a patchwork of state regulations, the U.S. Department of Transportation has issued its first policy for putting self-driving cars on America’s roadways.
The state’s highest court, tossing out a Boston man’s gun conviction, ordered judges Tuesday to consider whether a black person who walks away from a police officer is attempting to avoid the “recurring indignity of being racially profiled” — and not because the person is guilty of a crime.
Wyoming's chief information officer is resigning this week to take a job with Google.
After years of insisting Chicago police could make do without adding officers, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration acknowledged Wednesday that the department needs hundreds more to combat the violence plaguing the city, announcing a plan to hire nearly 1,000 beat officers, detectives and supervisors over the next two years.
Protests turned violent for a second night in Charlotte after Tuesday's fatal police shooting of a black man. Late Wednesday, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory declared a state of emergency for the city and deployed the National Guard and State Highway Patrol troopers to assist local police.
Many lawmakers up for re-election are distancing themselves from their unpopular executive leader. But that may not be enough to win.
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