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Arrests by Philadelphia police dropped by 16 percent during the first half of 2015, the biggest plunge in six years, records show.
Megan Barry and David Fox are headed for a runoff election to decide the next mayor of Nashville, giving voters a one-month race that pits a favorite of liberals versus the choice of many conservatives.
State CIO Tom Baden says most systems will live in some form of cloud.
Data includes migration, outmigration and gross income statistics for local areas.
A controversial statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis will remain in the Kentucky Capitol rotunda.
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Critics say the now-popular technology needs to be regulated, but cops worry too much regulation will hurt their ability to fight crime.
With the anniversary of Michael Brown's shooting only days away, the city appears to have rebuffed a Justice Department draft proposal to reform Ferguson's police and courts and requested more time to come up with a counteroffer.
District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman of Montgomery County has criminally charged Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane with leaking confidential documents and then lying to a grand jury about it under oath.
Aldona Wos, the secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, is resigning after a tenure that moved the agency to financial stability but which was marked by persistent questions from lawmakers about its operations.
A group of armed bounty hunters surrounded the home of Phoenix's police chief Tuesday night, and one of them was arrested after a flawed search for a fugitive ended in a confrontation with the city's top cop, police said.
Capping years of scandal, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department has agreed to federal oversight of its jail system in an effort to end abuse of inmates by sheriff's deputies and to improve chronically poor treatment of mentally ill inmates.
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California is going up in smoke as wildfires continue to burn in mostly dry terrain.
The Executive Council voted 3-2 on Wednesday along party lines to deny contracts that would help fund two Planned Parenthood offices in the state, in the wake of controversial videos that show national Planned Parenthood staffers casually discussing the sale of fetal body parts for use in medical research.
Long-awaited migration data show where people are relocating to and the wealth that they're bringing. View data for your county.
Hanna Skandera, New Mexico's Cabinet secretary of public education, is dropping a small part of her controversial program for evaluating teachers.
Texas' strict voter identification law violates the U.S. Voting Rights Act through its discriminatory effects, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday.
Beginning next year, the federal government will conduct a five-year, 40-state experiment to determine whether there is a better way to help elderly Americans come to grips with terminal illnesses and prepare to die.
California election officials are reversing a policy that prevents 45,000 felons from casting ballots, placing the state in the forefront of a movement to boost voting rights for ex-criminals.
Kansas has dropped its limit on the amount of cash assistance welfare recipients can withdraw from an ATM after federal officials said that policy conflicted with federal law.
California's drought police, slapped down in court just a few weeks ago, have been cleared to go after water districts accused of illegally diverting water.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Tuesday announced a two-week moratorium on issuing termination notices as the state Department of Human Services works to verify the eligibility of hundreds of thousands of Arkansans enrolled in the private option and other Medicaid programs.
Despite his well-chronicled affinity for publicity, Rod Blagojevich has served his time in a Colorado prison for more than three years without so much as a peep.
Disposal well operators in parts of Logan and Oklahoma counties must cut their water volumes over the next 60 days under new guidelines the Oklahoma Corporation Commission put in place Monday.
Someday in the not-too-distant future, first responders may be able to livestream video, vital signs and EKG results while en route with a patient to the Ben Taub emergency room.
General Assembly Republicans won't sign off on Gov. Terry McAuliffe's pick for the state Supreme Court, they announced late Sunday, going instead with Appeals Court Judge Rossie D. Alston.
Despite a legal challenge, state wildlife authorities began selling licenses today for the first bear hunt in Florida in more than two decades.
Fox News on Tuesday announced the lineup for the first Republican presidential debate, one that will probably be dominated by the figure standing at center stage, Donald Trump, whose attention-grabbing skills have allowed him to leap to the front of a crowded GOP field over the last six weeks.
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