A Democratic candidate who railed against Elon Musk and his spending cuts flipped an ancestrally Republican district in ...

This month for the first time, 16- and 17-year olds will help decide Newark’s school board members thanks to a measure passed ...

The biggest name in Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election belonged to neither of its candidates, but to Elon Musk, who ...

The takeover returns St. Louis to a Civil War-era arrangement of state control. A local official calls the move "a clear ...

Update (March 29): Louisianans on March 29 rejected Amendment 3, the measure that would have paved the way for more children to be moved to adult criminal courts, by a large margin of 66 to 34 percent ...

In the nearly three decades Barry Jones spent on Arizona’s death row, he often contemplated how he would die. A series of failed appeals to prove his innocence had culminated with the U.S. Supreme ...

In the early evening on Feb. 19, two Chicago police officers arrested a 40-year-old man in the Englewood neighborhood. According to their report, the officers cited an odor of “raw cannabis emitting ...

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