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Fallout from a shooting earlier this month involving a reserve Tulsa County sheriff's deputy continued Monday with the resignation of the department's undersheriff.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts, who struggled Monday to stop rioting in the city, spent most of his law enforcement career in California, confronting unrest during a rocky two-year tenure in Oakland.
After two weeks of tension over the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore devolved into chaos Monday.
Some states are looking to give senior citizens additional saving on their taxes, although they are the richest age group and already enjoy favorable treatment.
Investigators with the city police and other agencies are still trying to recreate the events that caused Gray to sustain a fatal spinal cord injury while in police custody.
A recent survey shows how Americans feel about the job police are doing and how they can improve.
Cities are supposed to implement positive train control by the end of this year, but many are lagging. Los Angeles, however, got a head start years ago.
Several cities are starting to see more potential in once dangerous and usually underused backstreets.
In Jersey City, N.J., ex-offenders are getting an opportunity to start their lives over again -- and so is a familiar public figure trying to help them.
Unlike mortgage and payday lenders, the growing number of institutions that offer quick cash to small businesses are still largely unregulated. Chicago is the first trying to change that.
State Dream Acts have drawn passionate responses from both advocates and critics. But evidence suggests these measures have had limited impact.
The new app's focus on positive feedback helps cities improve services and boost employees’ morale.
With an influx of rich people and exodus of poor and middle class, a less liberal San Francisco could soon emerge?
Wealthy communities guzzle water as poorer neighbors conserve by necessity.
Seattle is the latest city to offer discounted rates to low-income riders. Some say it's a misguided attempt to address income inequality.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County and city and state officials partnered to launch the Maryland Green Prisons Initiative to come up with cheap ways to improve vacant lots while studying urban ecosystems.
As the saga of Hillary Clinton’s emails has shown the world yet again, looking like you might have something to hide immediately arouses suspicion.
The region's two top law enforcement agencies have been locked in a conflict over last year's fatal police shooting of a mentally ill homeless man--a case the officers said was self-defense, but which the city's chief prosecutor alleged was murder.
The dwindling number of bees has a direct impact on the economy, which is what keeps state beekeepers like Tammy Horn going.
Supporters of "aid-in-dying" have had little success in state legislatures, so they're turning to the courts for help.
As prescription drug overdose deaths soar nationwide, most states have failed to take a simple step that would make it harder for doctors to prescribe the deadliest of all narcotics.
As the Tennessee House debated a bill Wednesday that could determine whether he can eventually afford college, 15-year-old Carlos Reyes was in the balcony.
Republican Gov. Bill Haslam on Friday signed into law a bill that immediately overrides city and county bans on permit-holders bringing firearms into local parks, playgrounds and ballfields.
A few hours before the gavel came down on the regular session, Gov. Jay Inslee signed one of the most-discussed laws, one that brings medical marijuana under much of the same state control and oversight as the newer recreational pot system.
The five New England governors at a closed-door energy meeting Thursday updated their agreement to pursue major investments in natural gas pipelines and transmission wires.
A day of mostly peaceful demonstrations against the death of Freddie Gray turned confrontational as dark fell over Baltimore Saturday evening, as protesters blocked traffic near the Inner Harbor, smashed police car windows and shouted, "Killers!" at officers in riot gear.
In the state's standardized test at Nathan Hale High School this week, 100 percent of the 11th graders opted out of the examination.
In an effort to make rentals more sustainable, 14 college towns banded together to create a website that shows people what they would pay in utilities.
As a city with a big history, Louisville is building on its achievements to diminish the debilitating remnants of poverty in its community.
Brue Rauner's budget will make roughly $106 million in cuts to the Medicaid health care program for the poor, much of which takes the form of a 16.75 percent reduction to reimbursement payments to doctors and pharmacies.
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