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A rookie cop who shot and killed an unarmed man in a Brooklyn housing project stairwell was indicted Tuesday on criminal charges stemming from the case, which fueled protests over policing tactics.
Gov. John Kitzhaber decided to resign Tuesday but then changed his mind, insisting Wednesday afternoon that he's staying, The Oregonian/OregonLive has learned.
MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott jetted off at taxpayer expense nearly every month during her two-plus-year tenure -- sometimes several times a month -- to conferences and meetings around the country, even as the troubled transit system was collapsing around her, a Herald review shows.
As Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker showed on Wednesday, the theory of evolution continues to trip up presidential aspirants. Over the past few election cycles, Democratic candidates often voiced their unabashed support of Darwin's scientific breakthrough, while Republicans offered up views ranging from outright denial to complex hedging to less than full-throated support.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, a possible presidential contender, wants more states to adopt a new measurement tool called "net present value plus."
The original champions of change might move on, but their ideas don't have to leave with them.
L.A. city and county officials formed a task force formed last fall after President Barack Obama announced the expansion of his deferred action program.
Employed white Southerners are most likely to lose coverage if the court rules against the Obama administration.
Executive Assistant to the Chief of Staff, Office of Gov. John Hickenlooper, Colorado
The amount of time Montgomery County, Md., will delay school start times next year, from 7:25 a.m. to 7:45 a.m., to let students get more sleep.
Jails across the country have become vast warehouses made up primarily of people too poor to post bail or too ill with mental health or drug problems to adequately care for themselves, according to a report issued Wednesday.
Two of Gov. Bill Walker’s departments are proposing cuts to programs aimed at fighting federal government plans and initiatives just a few weeks after Walker and state legislators loudly criticized federal initiatives to limit oil and gas development in Alaska and offshore.
Saying he wanted a change in a “broken” child welfare system, Gov. Doug Ducey on Tuesday fired Charles Flanagan as head of the year-old Department of Child Safety.
