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The Baltimore Police Department is better prepared than ever before to handle civil disturbances, given the lessons it learned from the rioting that broke out in April, the mayor and police commissioner said Monday.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Monday he is "100 percent cancer free."
The West Virginia Board of Education Friday moved forward with a repeal of the state's current Common Core-based K-12 math and English language arts standards, in order to replace them with a version the state schools superintendent says isn't based off the national standards blueprint.
A ruling from the Texas Attorney General's office has just made it more difficult to access information about the kinds of crimes undocumented immigrants have committed in Dallas County — and whether local officials turned those offenders over to federal authorities.
In most states, consumers with HIV or AIDS who buy silver-level plans on the insurance marketplaces find limited coverage of common drug regimens they may need and high out-of-pocket costs, according to a new analysis.
There are some essential elements for an effective system for reducing arrests and incarceration.
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After the terrorist attacks in Paris, more than half of the nation's governors -- almost all Republicans -- refused to accept Syrian refugees. Whether they have the authority to do so is questionable.
The state agency that oversees jails is issuing a new intake form so jailers will ask more specific, direct questions when booking people.
The tentative accord announced Tuesday by Gov. Tom Wolf and Republican legislators only deals with general issues. The deal could still collapse over school funding, property taxes and pensions.
Eugene Dooley, one of 12 members of the state Judicial Conduct Board weighing sanctions against state Supreme Court Justice J. Michael Eakin over offensive emails, also received the messages.
The Kansas governor began instituting more stringent welfare policies soon after he became governor. He says the new rules encourage work and other behavior needed to lift people out of poverty.
Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. sat behind the big desk in his formal and stately City Hall office here, with a photo of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on one wall and a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee staring down from another.
The American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico has unveiled the Mobile Justice New Mexico app, a tool that lets New Mexicans use their smart phones to record police or Border Patrol encounters and file reports of law enforcement misconduct.
Requiring convicted sex offenders to register their address with authorities is not cruel and unusual punishment, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in a 7-2 decision in a case from Clark County.
With Saturday's fatal stabbing of a 27-year-old man in West Baltimore and fatal shooting of a 22-year-old in Westport, the city's annual homicide count passed 300 for the first time since 1999, pushing the city across a deadly threshold once considered a relic of the past.
The Supreme Court on Friday set the stage for its most important pronouncement on abortion in two decades, agreeing to hear a dispute over efforts by some conservative states to regulate the procedure.
Gov. Rick Snyder's decision to suspend efforts to bring Syrian refugees to Michigan in light of the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday has sparked controversy and launched the state into the national debate of how to protect U.S. citizens while providing a haven for those who desperately need help.
Forty-one states, plus the District of Columbia, license security officers, but requirements vary greatly from state to state. Alaska, for example, mandates 48 hours of training initially, plus another eight hours in firearms training for armed guards. South Carolina requires four hours of training and an additional four for those who carry a gun.
Many argue that Proposition 47, which reduced penalties for many violations, resulted in increased crime in the state's largest cities.
With new tools at their disposal, governments have the opportunity to create a golden age of citizen engagement. That could do a lot for trust in government.
Puerto Ricans, who from birth are U.S. citizens, have historically moved to the mainland in times of trouble, but this latest wave of migration is desperate and accelerating.
The coach, convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys he met through his work with a charity for at-risk youth, has been fighting to have his $4,900-a-month Pennsylvania State University pension restored since 2012.
Critics and supporters predicted that the federal health law would have a huge impact on the time it takes to see a doctor. Turns out they were both wrong.
Removing one of the several obstacles to resuming executions in California, a federal appeals panel Thursday struck down a judge's ruling that the state's snarled capital punishment system is arbitrary and therefore unconstitutional.
The city government is indicating in may be time to retire Mayor Michael Nutter's 2014 executive order that has barred city police and prison officials from cooperating with federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
In 2014, 13 percent of health care systems in the United States offered plans that covered 18 million members, or about 8 percent of all people with insurance. Most of the people covered by provider-led plans are in Medicaid managed care or Medicare Advantage plans.
Maine Attorney General Janet Mills has filed a civil complaint against a Lisbon man for allegedly violating the Maine Civil Rights Act during a protest at Planned Parenthood's Portland offices.
After Michael Middleton founded the Legion of Black Collegians, he personally delivered a list of race-related demands to the University of Missouri chancellor in 1969.
Trying to close a stadium deal with local governments, David Beckham this week greeted the man who would be his landlord: Miami-Dade School Superintendent Alberto Carvalho.
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