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The Baltimore Police van driver accused of giving a "rough ride" that killed Freddie Gray was acquitted of all charges Thursday by Circuit Judge Barry Williams.
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the limited use of affirmative action by colleges and universities seeking to enroll more minority students.
A deadlocked Supreme Court could not rule Thursday on the legality of President Obama's immigration reform plan, leaving in place a lower court's order in Texas that blocked it from taking effect.
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The Ohio capital beat out 77 other cities, including techie San Francisco, with its plans to use technology to solve transportation problems.
The Los Angeles City Council gave its final approval Wednesday to a five-year, $57.6-million plan to buy thousands of police body cameras, clearing the way for the LAPD to resume rolling out the devices after a six-month delay.
State Sen. Royce West is suing Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant for allegedly trashing — to the tune of more than $60,000 in repairs — a property he had leased to Bryant.
On the same day the D.C. Public Library announced it found excessive lead contamination in four libraries, city officials said they will lower the maximum acceptable level of lead in public drinking water, making the District’s standards far stricter than those required by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Local operators are celebrating a ruling this week by a federal judge who halted implementation of U.S. Bureau of Land Management rules governing hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, by the oil and gas industry on public and tribal lands.
Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee was on the U.S. House floor as Democrats staged a sit-in to try to force a vote in that chamber on gun-control measures.
Funding for Planned Parenthood, Medicaid expansion, the state’s opioid crisis, and a passenger rail line between southern New Hampshire and Boston were topics touched on by Democratic gubernatorial hopefuls at a forum held Wednesday evening at the McConnell Center in Dover.
Once derided as the world's least environmentally sustainable city, Phoenix is in the midst of a remarkable transformation.
In the wake of another mass shooting and amid congressional inaction on gun control, the state has announced plans to open the nation's first public research center dedicated to firearm violence.
Guilford County Sheriff's Deputy Matt Stalls looked on Monday as Gov. Pat McCrory signed into a law a bill that will make life-saving overdose medication available state-wide without a prescription.
The Michigan attorney general filed a lawsuit Wednesday morning against a water company and an engineering firm, plus several related companies, in connection with the Flint drinking water crisis, alleging the firms' "acts and omission constitute professional negligence, fraud and public nuisance."
Democrats have lost power in three states. But two elections are still too close to call.
In some statewide positions, people come and go fast, taking several keys to success when they leave.
Donald Trump's presidential campaign has paid $35,000 to a mysterious firm with ties to Missouri's raucous Republican gubernatorial primary race, and no one can figure out why.
Employers cannot discriminate or terminate workers for going through a divorce or separation, the New Jersey Supreme Court said in a ruling Tuesday.
Voters in a city long weary of seeing sidewalks filled with homeless camps will soon get the chance to prove just how willing they are to see them forcibly cleared.
The city's shuttered Holmesburg prison will be available during the Democratic National Convention to hold arrested protesters, if necessary.
Gov. Paul LePage says despite his proposal being rejected by the Legislature and federal government, Maine will move forward with restricting the purchase of what he calls junk foods with food stamps in Maine -- or give up administration of the program altogether.
New York City is on track to become the nation's first city to require free tampons and sanitary pads in public schools, homeless shelters and jails after lawmakers approved the idea Tuesday amid a national discussion of the costs of having a period.
States' overall budgets finally surpassed pre-recession peaks this year -- but not everywhere.
Alaska Gov. Bill Walker on Sunday made good on his threat to call lawmakers back to Juneau for another special session on his deficit-reduction package, demanding they return in July to consider tax and Permanent Fund legislation.
The good news is that funding has stabilized. But a number of factors suggest that there's trouble ahead.
An independent political PAC that has riled the race for Missouri's Republican nomination for governor is denying a report suggesting it's tied to one of the four candidates.
Republican challenger Jonathan Johnson is ratcheting up the rhetoric, calling Gov. Gary Herbert a "coward" for refusing to debate him before next week's GOP primary.
Federal officials Monday unsealed corruption charges against four NYPD officers and two businessmen linked to Mayor Bill de Blasio, popping the lid off an explosive scandal in which top cops allegedly got payoffs and prostitutes to provide help ranging from gun licenses and police escorts to closing a Lincoln Tunnel lane.
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