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The nation's 18,000 police agencies are expected to submit specified categories of crime statistics every year to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program. Inclusion of justifiable homicides is optional.
Adam Weinstein, writing about how police outside of Sacramento, Calif., have been responding to more 911 calls from visitors to the Cool Patch Pumpkins corn maze in Dixon, Calif. The center, which holds the Guinness world record as the largest corn maze, recently added 20 more acres, confounding regular participants.
Americans recently passed a milestone when federal officials reported that water use across the nation had reached its lowest level in more than 45 years: good news for the environment, great news in times of drought and a major victory for conservation.
Idaho will be one of a dozen states, along with Washington, D.C., to run its own online marketplace this year — and the only one whose state government is completely controlled by Republicans.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Dan Sullivan's lead over Democratic Sen. Mark Begich shrank slightly, and Gov. Sean Parnell fell a bit further behind challenger Bill Walker in his bid for a second full term, as Alaska election officials Tuesday continued counting votes in what promises to be a long process.
Gov.-elect Tom Wolf is restricting members of his transition team from accepting gifts of any kind, a ban that he soon plans to extend throughout the executive branch of state government.
A Fulton County Superior Court judge has upheld Mayor Kasim Reed's historic 2011 pension reform, siding with the city in a class-action lawsuit brought by employee unions, the mayor's office announced Tuesday.
Gov.-elect Larry Hogan (R) said Tuesday that his transition team is working hard to “put a government together” but that he does not plan to talk publicly about substantive policy issues until he is sworn in.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said the “pillars of safety and speech” will mark how law enforcement responds to any unrest after a grand jury decides the fate of the 28-year-old police officer who fatally shot an unarmed teenager more than three months ago.
Amount approved by voters in Katy, Texas, last week to be spent on a new high school football stadium.
The ruling in two cases challenging Alabama's legislative maps could have an impact on congressional and legislative maps across the country.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, on the future of political movements in the United States.
In authorizing casinos some states have also created funds to help address problem gambling.
Both major parties, along with a host of outside groups, are now gearing up for 2016, when this swing state will be back in the spotlight.
Between 2005 and 2013, agents apprehended more than 40,000 people at the nine most inland Border Patrol stations representing locations as far as 350 miles from Mexico.
There are two forward leaps in how cities track pollution. One new effort aims to harmonize the many methods cities use for tracking their greenhouse-gas emissions. Meanwhile, London is looking to push the whole field of city emissions tracking to a new level.
The recession may have ended in 2009, but a new report shows that declining revenues and state aid are keeping many big cities from recovering.
For Anthony Mitchell, the Fourth Quarter Residences were a godsend, a low-rent haven for homeless and disabled veterans at a time when he and his wife were living in their car.
Alleging that Pennsylvania's education-funding system is "irrational and inequitable," a group of parents, school districts, and organizations on Monday sued the commonwealth, saying it had failed to provide all students with an appropriate education.
State election officials are calling a lawsuit claiming votes were incorrectly tabulated on abortion measure Amendment 1 “absurd” and without merit.
Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration has made dramatic adjustments to state worker health care benefits for 2015 after tremendous public outcry and a threat of at least one lawsuit over next year's health insurance offerings.
The new Republican Congress is headed for a clash with the White House over two ambitious Environmental Protection Agency regulations that are the heart of President Obama’s climate change agenda.
The day before Kansas was to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor issued a stay that temporarily prevents the state from doing so.
Possession of 25 grams or less of marijuana no longer will be grounds for arrest in New York City under a new policy aimed at ending the lifelong stigma that can follow pot users, city officials announced Monday.
The division avoided a top-down approach and let front-line workers help shape the overhaul.
After the winners of Tuesday’s elections are sworn in, there will be only seven white Democrats left in the Texas Legislature.
A bipartisan group of lawyers led by former Texas Solicitor General James C. Ho filed an amicus brief Monday in Austin, asking a judge to dismiss the case against the state's governor.
Back in the spring of 2014, speculation was already growing about the significant impact that technology and cybersecurity might have on the 2014 midterm elections.
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