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Body camera footage of a fatal police shooting that sparked unrest in Milwaukee's Sherman Park neighborhood will not be released until the Milwaukee County district attorney makes a charging decision, Attorney General Brad Schimel said Monday.
Monday was the end of the line for a landmark California case challenging tenure and other traditional job protections for teachers -- and the teachers won.
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Friday used his amendatory veto power to rewrite a bill that would have ended the state's growing practice of suing prison inmates to recover the costs of their incarceration -- effectively killing the legislation, according to the bill's two sponsors.
Ohio officials do not intend to follow the lead of the federal government in abandoning private prison operations.
Politicians and voting rights advocates continue to clash over whether photo ID and other voting requirements are needed to prevent voter fraud, but a News21 analysis and recent court rulings show little evidence that such fraud is widespread.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Obama administration's instructions for public schools to accommodate transgender students, siding late Sunday with Texas and a dozen other states that challenged the contentious guidelines for bathrooms and other facilities.
Holding a defendant in jail simply because they can’t afford a fixed bail amount is unconstitutional, the Justice Department said in a brief it filed Thursday in a Georgia lawsuit.
The proposals could reshape several large U.S. cities for decades to come -- if they pass.
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple issued an emergency declaration for southwest and south central North Dakota in response to protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline near Cannon Ball.
Utah, a state where even regular beer is considered too intoxicating, has made possession of heroin or cocaine a misdemeanor rather than a felony.
After nearly a decade as Baltimore's top lawyer, City Solicitor George A. Nilson will no longer lead the city law department, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced Friday.
With Miami-Beach now listed as a local source of the Zika virus, federal officials are advising pregnant women and their partners who are concerned about the virus to avoid non-essential travel to anywhere in Miami-Dade County.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, on CNN Sunday morning, praised GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump for coming to see the massive flooding damage in the state first-hand.
Food-stamp enrollment in the U.S. is declining from record levels, in part because some states are ending benefits earlier than they have to.
The private sector has learned the value of engaging its workers. Government needs to take advantage of that.
Georgia enjoys its image as the Empire State of the South, a leader among its Deep South neighbors, the first to have an Olympic city and the first to send a native son to the White House.
For Chirlane McCray, New York City’s first lady, mental illness is not an abstract concern.
Denver's Peak Academy demonstrates how investing in people pays off.
Few of the best- and worst-performing states were in the same position just three years ago.
A judge has ruled against Detroit Public Schools in its lawsuit against two teachers involved in teacher sick-outs, saying the district failed to meet its burden and interpreted a state law in a way that is "offensive to fundamental rights of free speech."
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf on Thursday nominated a former top state prosecutor to serve as attorney general and replace the convicted Kathleen Kane, in a move that would end the fleeting tenure of Bruce L. Castor Jr.
Governor Christie on Thursday vetoed a pair of bills that sponsors said would make it easier to register to vote — for years a Democratic mission that has been rejected by the Republican governor over and over again.
Parents and children crowded into the cafeteria at Eneida M. Hartner Elementary School on Thursday afternoon to get new school uniforms -- ones with long pants and long-sleeved shirts intended to protect against the spread of Zika.
A U.S. judge in San Francisco on Thursday rejected a proposed $100 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit by Uber drivers who had sought employee status.
A federal judge on Thursday threw out key parts of an abortion law that would have blocked all state funding to clinics such as Planned Parenthood and required the inspection of as many as 35,000 women's health records.
Gov. Mark Dayton voluntarily released his tax returns Thursday, showing he earned $385,000 in 2015.
In the aftermath of the recent shooting death of a Hatch police officer, Gov. Susana Martinez said Wednesday she will push during next year's 60-day legislative session to reinstate New Mexico's death penalty -- at the least for child-killers and those convicted of murdering law enforcement officers.
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They joined the growing number of states that regulate the industry that critics say traps poor people in a cycle of debt.
They don't have to produce fiscal uncertainty. States are finding ways to bring these important economic development tools under prudent controls.
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