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Gov. Chris Christie ordered the review; its goal is to improve, not redo, standards, officials say.
Between 2012 and 2014, 47 states passed 261 laws creating or expanding pretrial programs that would supervise low-level offenders in lieu of holding them in jails.
A former Republican majority leader was the driving force.
Milwaukee, Chicago, Baltimore, New Orleans and St. Louis have all seen their murder rates increase in 2015.
With 1 million Puerto Ricans in Florida, candidates will feel pressure to voice support for the territory.
Milfred Ellis hopes his posters will rally Washington's black homeowners amid an influx of younger, white residents.
The New York governor signed an executive order designating the state attorney general as a special prosecutor for certain police-related civilian deaths. The families of many victims say the order is too limited.
A yearlong investigation found that John Dewey High School's Kathleen Elvin allowed students at risk of not graduating to make up credits in classes where they received no substantial instruction.
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake acted to replace Commissioner Anthony W. Batts after the police union accused him of taking a passive approach during the riots following Freddie Gray’s death.
After hours of emotional debate, the final House vote was 94 to 20, meaning that the Confederate battle flag at the State House in Columbia could be lowered by the weekend.
The coverage under Medi-Cal, the state’s version of Medicaid, is expected to result in more preventive care and better long-term health for an estimated 170,000 children who have long relied on safety-net clinics and emergency rooms. Now advocates are calling on the state to cover adults, too.
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Joe Straus, Democrats in the House and Senate asked for the creation of a task force to consider whether the numerous Confederate monuments, markers and statutes on the Capitol grounds are “historically accurate, whether they are appropriately located on the Capitol grounds, and whether any changes are needed.”
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller discussed new initiatives in consumer protection and his fight against what he considers "federal overreach."
You put [Scott Walker's] name onto something and it results in people either loving it or hating it.
Democratic Wisconsin state Sen. Fred Risser, on his state's governor.
The portion of 2,437 state and local prosecutors across the country in 2014 who were white -- 79 percent of whom were white men.
Ramon Alvarez, an El Salvador-born man working on building the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., reacting to Donald Trump's characterizing undocumented immigrants as drug dealers and "rapists," despite the fact that many of the people building the Trump Hotel appear to be Latino workers who came here illegally.
The number of alleyways in Washington, D.C., that will be repaired this summer under Mayor Muriel Bowser's new summer project known as "AlleyPalooza."
Numbers of long-term unemployed remain high in most states.
States are not the only ones to lack the data they need to make good government.
Jim Gilmore Gilmore served one term as Virginia's governor, from 1998 to 2002.
California’s marijuana industry is taking a toll on the state’s scarce water resources and the environment, with growers sometimes illegally siphoning off entire streams to produce the nation’s largest supply of pot.
Confederate sympathizers have nothing on the "Northwest Front."
Martin O’Malley racked up $339,200 in loans putting two kids through college. He wants to lighten the load for others.
The state Supreme Court said the monument on statehouse grounds violates the state constitution. Gov. Mary Fallin said “the court got it wrong.”
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback issues an order to bar the state from acting against any individual clergy or religious leader who declines to participate in a same-sex ceremony.
State lawmakers have been circulating drafts of dozens of amendments that could jeopardize a bill that calls for the state to remove the flag and send it to the nearby Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum.
Will Bill de Balsio ally himself publicly with a Bloomberg administration initiative that has been deemed an illegal giveaway of parkland in order to promote development, and affordable housing, in Queens?
In the fourth year of drought, recipes and realities are changing in kitchens and restaurants.
Dale Cox, the acting district attorney in Caddo Parish, La., has secured more than a third of Louisiana’s death sentences over the past five years.
Portion of the total housing value of the nation located in New York City, which accounts for 8/1000ths of 1 percent of the land area of the United States.
