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Portion of people kept in Ferguson, Mo., jails for more than 48 hours between April and September 2014 who are black.
Number of states with the highest turnout of black voters in 2008 that subsequently passed voter ID laws.
Washington, D.C., Police Chief Cathy Lanier, expressing apparent support for the city's legalization of marijuana by criticizing how prohibition tarnished community relations with police. "Alcohol," she went on to say, "is a much bigger problem."
The state will halt all executions due to problems with lethal injection drugs.
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Advocates for the elderly and people with disabilities have long pushed for higher wages for personal care attendants, who are typically paid through Medicaid-contracted companies. This year, the cause has been newly championed by a group of fiscally conservative state leaders, led by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott.
The ordinance, modeled after similar laws in Rhode Island and Illinois, establishes specific protections that would make it more difficult to displace homeless people from public property.
Taser International is covering airfare and hotel stays for police chiefs who speak at promotional conferences. It is also hiring recently retired chiefs as consultants, sometimes just months after their cities signed contracts with Taser.
John W. Smith, who has worked in the court system for more than 40 years. will retire as director of the N.C. Administrative Office of the Courts effective May 1.
Evesham Township Mayor Randy Brown provokes an outcry after he decides that residents would not be permitted to question council members during public meetings,
Gov. Charlie Baker hopes to convince about 4,500 state workers to take early retirement. It'll cost the state $50 million, but his administration says the overall budget savings will more than make up for it.
Julie Zito, a professor of pharmacy and psychiatry at the University of Maryland, on the increasing number of low-income and foster children prescribed antipsychotics in America.
Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a possible presidential candidate, has flown to Washington for Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress.
Beverly L. Hall, the former Atlanta schools superintendent whose renown as an education reformer dissolved amid the ignominy of the nation's largest test-cheating scandal, died Monday of breast cancer. She was 68.
A federal judge on Monday blocked Nebraska's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, though the ruling will not take effect immediately.
Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski's startling announcement Monday that she will not seek re-election in 2016 after more than four decades in elected office set off a political free-for-all as Maryland's most powerful politicians began to position themselves for the opportunity to run for a rare open seat.
The California Supreme Court decided unanimously Monday that blanket statewide restrictions on where sex offenders may live violate the constitutional rights of parolees in San Diego County -- and potentially those in other counties.
A national policing commission set up by President Barack Obama after the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson is recommending independent investigations of police-involved deaths.
Few places in the U.S. are benefiting from lower gas prices as much as Mississippi. Residents spend about 6 percent of their after-tax income on gasoline, more than any other state.
Rahm Emanuel's failure to avoid a runoff has less to do with him and more to do with Chicago's problems, which run deeper than many want to acknowledge.
Number of "special conservators of the peace" in Virginia, private citizens who have petitioned courts for the authority to carry guns, display badges and make arrests. The number of SCOPs has doubled in the state over the past decade.
Maine state Sen. Eric Brakey, who sponsored a bill to let adults opt out of wearing seat belts. Last Friday's debate on the legislation occurred two days after the biggest car crash in state history.
Tom Wolf called Bill Green yesterday to inform him that he was removing him as chairman of the city's School Reform Commission.
The festering troubles at the state’s prison system have emerged as a problem that won’t go away.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, on how he changed his mind about immigration policy once he started exploring a run for president. Walker had previously indicated that he believed immigrants currently in the U.S. illegally could stay if they paid certain penalties.
Units of retail edible marijuana products sold in Colorado since the state legalized the substance last year.
The anticipated average increase in insurance premiums sold on the federal exchange if the U.S. Supreme Court rules against Obamacare in King v. Burwell and eliminates subsidies for people in 37 states.
Their numbers may pale in comparison to the peak protest rallies of 2011, but the passion was much the same for those who showed up Saturday to demonstrate their opposition to right-to-work legislation in Wisconsin.
Gov. Christie's proposed budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1 assumes hundreds of millions of dollars in savings achieved through the expansion of Medicaid under President Obama's health-care law.
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