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William J. Bratton, the city's 42nd police commissioner, said Tuesday he would step down from the department in mid-September to go into private industry, capping a 45-year career in policing which has been innovative and controversial at a time of constant challenges to law enforcement around the country.
Politics can make for strange allies sometimes. Curry Todd and Mark Lovell proved that Tuesday.
Under the direction of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, registered sex offenders in New York are no longer allowed to play the popular app Pokemon Go.
Portland Mayor Charlie Hales reversed course Tuesday on his controversial homeless policy that allowed tent camping and sidewalk sleeping.
Two more health cooperatives have filed lawsuits against the Obama administration over a program in which insurers compensate each other for taking on sicker customers under the Affordable Care Act.
Gov. Charlie Baker has signed into law a bill requiring men and women be paid equally for comparable work in Massachusetts.
In one week, federal courts struck down such laws in four states, marking a significant shift in the legal battle over voting rules.
A volatile stock market over the past year has taken a toll on public pension assets.
When accusations are flying or scandal erupts, it's crucial to get the initial response right.
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca withdrew his guilty plea Monday to a charge of lying during an FBI investigation into the county’s jails, opting instead to take his chances at a high-stakes trial.
With rising public concern about the threat posed by lead pipes connecting thousands of Chicago homes to the public water supply, city officials announced Monday they will begin testing tap water on streets that face greater risks of exposure to the brain-damaging metal.
Cursive education has been, understandably, declining, but advocates say it teaches broader skills and is needed for the reading of original documents.
At stake is a question to voters on the November ballot that would raise the mandatory retirement age for judges from 70 to 75 -- a decision that could alter the partisan makeup of the Keystone State's highest court within the next year.
In 2002, Miami-Dade voters were promised nearly 90 miles of new rail in exchange for accepting a nearly 8 percent increase in the county sales tax. Fourteen years later, that half-percent transit tax has built less than three miles of extra track. Now Miami-Dade leaders may try to revive those 2002 ambitions with a new revenue source: property taxes.
Across the country, a critical shortage of state psychiatric beds is forcing mentally ill patients with severe symptoms to be held in emergency rooms, hospitals and jails while they wait for a bed, sometimes for weeks.
Unwilling to hit property owners for the third time in one year, Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to raise the city’s utility taxes to save the largest of Chicago’s four city employee pension funds, City Hall sources said Monday.
Federal health authorities on Monday urged pregnant women not to visit a South Florida neighborhood where new cases of the Zika virus have emerged, the first time officials have warned against travel to part of the continental United States due to the outbreak of an infectious disease.
A Mississippi grand jury found on Monday that a white police officer had committed no crime when he fatally shot a black man he had been chasing after the man was pulled over in Tupelo.
A Chicago officer whose police powers were suspended after the officer shot an African-American teenager in the back last week was wearing a body camera, but the device was not operating and did not record the fatal encounter, officials said on Monday.
A federal judge on Monday blocked North Dakota's voter identification law after a group of American Indians said it unfairly burdens them -- the court ruling follows similar ones in North Carolina and Wisconsin this week that charge the laws disproportionately affect minorities.
Texting 911 could be valuable in emergencies like the Orlando shooting or a domestic violence incident, where it is unsafe to make any noise let alone talk out loud about the danger at hand. So far few states and cities have adopted 911 texting, but that will change over the next several years, as utility companies abandon old copper phone lines for fiber optic cables.
The new state law allowing guns inside college buildings went into effect Monday. Here’s a rundown of what that means for people on campus.
Federal, state and local public health officials are working together to investigate the current outbreak, which is estimated to have begun in February, with most cases in the past two months.
Schools, cities, state agencies and other public employers across Oregon will have to pony up an extra $885 million next biennium to fund the state's public pension system. That's about 10 percent higher than previously forecast and a 44 percent increase from the $2 billion per biennium that public employers are currently paying to support the system.
Early education across the United States is a mishmash of day care, Head Start and preschool programs with a wide range of quality and effectiveness. But a federally sponsored program in 20 states has been effective at giving those states a way to assess and quantify early-childhood education options and make that information available to parents, educators and legislators, according to a study the U.S. Education Department plans to release Monday.
From ballot boxes to the governors’ desks in Oregon and Washington, a corner of the nation that seemed poised only a few years ago to become a new energy hub is now gripped by a debate over whether transporting volatile, hazardous crude oil by rail through cities and environmentally delicate areas can ever be made safe enough.
Since the Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 ruling in the voting-rights case, Shelby County v. Holder, critics argue, the blatant efforts to keep minorities from voting have been supplanted by a blizzard of more subtle changes.
At the 11th hour, House and Senate lawmakers reached a deal on rules governing ride-for-hire services like Uber and Lyft. The final product calls for a state-run driver background check and establishing a 20-cent-per-ride fee on the companies.
Medicaid has become the safety net for millions of people who find themselves unable to pay for nursing home beds or in-home caregivers. Medicaid was never intended to cover long-term care for everyone. Now it pays for nearly 40 percent of the nation’s long-term care expenses, and the share is growing.
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