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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.
Illinois and New Jersey are joining the growing number of states that restrict how transportation money can be spent.
Efficiently transporting people with limited mobility is a challenge. Some promising new approaches are being tried.
Real GDP increased in most regions last year, but many have experienced little to no growth since 2007.
Albuquerque is harnessing the strength of immigrant entrepreneurs to improve its local economy.
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence has declined to rule on a historic pardon request involving the wrongful conviction of an Illinois man.
Only a day after approval in the West Virginia Senate, Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin on Tuesday signed into law a flood relief bill that provides $85 million for recovery from the late-June floods, an amount he said will ensure the state meets its obligation to cover 25 percent of the cost of repairs.
State Rep. Leslie Acosta vowed Tuesday to remain in office and to continue her reelection campaign even as leaders of her party -- including Gov. Wolf -- called for her to resign over the revelation last week that she secretly had pleaded guilty to federal felony charges earlier this year.
The police shooting of a man in Charlotte, N.C., sparked overnight protests and unrest, temporarily shutting down a major interstate in the area.
38 Studios founder Curt Schilling, other executives from his failed video-game company and their insurer have agreed to pay a $2.5-million settlement to the state to resolve their part in the four-year legal battle against the architects of the state's failed $75-million loan deal.
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has issued an executing order prohibiting price gouging in the wake of a leak at an Alabama pipeline that has sent prices up and supplies down.
The nation's second-largest school system on Tuesday moved away from its brief experiment with an earlier school start, edging back closer to the traditional day-after-Labor Day schedule.
Texas is playing the leading role in a double-barreled legal challenge issued by state officials and business groups against the White House's effort to make millions more Americans eligible for overtime pay.
In Karen Thoreson's world, few things are ruled out as a possibility for improving public services.
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