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The General Fund faces a shortfall of at least $200 million. Gov. Robert Bentley will call the state legislature back into session next week to try to fix it.
A Justice Department report warns similar unrest could happen in other places roiled by mistrust between law enforcement and the community.
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Critics of the St. Louis-area municipal courts have long pointed to an absence of oversight in state government that allowed some municipal courts to operate as constitutionally deficient revenue machines.
A circuit judge ruled Wednesday that the case against six Baltimore police officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray will go forward in separate trials, with Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby remaining at the helm of the prosecution.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner scored the biggest legislative win of his short tenure on Wednesday when Democratic House Speaker Michael Madigan fell three votes short in a bid to override the governor's veto of a major labor bill.
Michigan plans to meet aggressive targets and deadlines for carbon dioxide emissions from power plants announced by President Barack Obama and the administration of Gov. Rick Snyder will not follow Attorney General Bill Schuette in a multi-state court action to block the new rules, officials said Tuesday.
The Christie administration on Wednesday officially moved to block the federal Environmental Protection Agency's implementation of new clean energy rules, blasting them as "unprecedented regulatory overreach."
The White House on Wednesday announced new efforts and funding to encourage energy efficiency in remote villages and the appointment of a federal coordinator for “climate resilience” in Alaska, in conjunction with President Barack Obama's trip to Kotzebue.
The state has consolidated 20 agency data centers — out of an eventual 50 — into a co-located facility at the State University of New York’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.
Program evaluation can provide roadmaps, not destinations. Reformers need to be wary of unrealistic expectations.
Trends in spending on roads, schools, prisons and stadiums.
For New York, the platform approach has a number of advantages over traditional software development.
As Medicaid expansion moves forward in Alaska, a lawsuit on the issue continues to simmer between Gov. Bill Walker's administration and the state Legislature.
FBI agents and investigators from the Riverside County district attorney's office seized documents Tuesday from City Hall and the mayor's home as part of what the FBI called a public corruption investigation.
Vermont's governor pushed to change state laws to focus on treatment instead of prosecution in attacking an epidemic of drug addiction.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel's administration has sued Chicago's former red light camera operator, Redflex Traffic Systems, for more than $300 million on grounds the entire program was built on a $2 million bribery scheme at City Hall that has already led to federal corruption convictions.
Embattled Secretary of State Dianna Duran could become the first major politician in New Mexico to face the possibility of losing her public pension because of corruption charges.
A federal judge Tuesday dealt a blow to Uber's efforts to neutralize a major legal challenge to its business model, finding that a lawsuit against the growing ride-booking company can proceed as a class action on behalf of most California drivers who have worked for the Bay Area outfit since 2009.
A federal judge has ordered Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis and her deputies to appear in his courtroom Thursday and explain why Davis should not be held in contempt of court for refusing to issue marriage licenses.
The U.S. Justice Department told a federal judge that Gov. Bobby Jindal's decision to oust Planned Parenthood from Louisiana's Medicaid program appears to violate federal law by denying Medicaid patients the right to choose their healthcare providers.
Ending years of litigation, hunger strikes and contentious debate, California has agreed to move thousands of state prisoners out of solitary confinement under the terms of a landmark lawsuit settlement.
Sam Brownback says his state's work requirements have had "positive results."
The New Jersey governor has proposed tracking immigrants because "If FedEx can do it, why can't we use the same technology to do it?" The technology FedEx uses is based on bar-code scanning.
The state reports the second-largest drop nationally in the percentage of kindergarten-age children who were not vaccinated last year.
The state and local tax holiday applies to almost all purchases of firearms, ammunition and other hunting supplies, as well as ATVs.
Without more money, the Forest Service would have to borrow from other programs the it runs, a practice that has become increasingly common as wildfires grow in size and intensity and increasingly threaten populated areas.
In a move that has the potential to either shake up the Department of Corrections or validate the status quo, prisons chief Julie Jones has asked for the 12 top officials in charge of prisons and probation to reapply for their jobs by Tuesday as part of a major realignment designed to centralize power at the agency.
The state is officially challenging an appeals court ruling last month that dismissed one of two counts in the abuse-of-power indictment against former Gov. Rick Perry.
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