Legislators should use $33 billion surplus to meet state needs Property tax cuts helpful to many, but state has other needs, too As public policy dilemmas go, it’s not a bad one to have. Over the next ...

A smoky fire in May took two young lives after two firefighters failed to find them, sparking allegations of lies and the firing of the chief.

An inmate at the Bexar County Detention Center buys items at the commissary, on Thursday, May 9, 2019. A former inmate has ...

A federal judge has dismissed a challenge to Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics Group’s plans for a $9.4 billion plastics complex in Welcome, LA, because the Army Corps of Engineers is reconsidering its ...

A judge has denied a request by two Duluth public defenders that second-degree murder charges against their clients be dismissed because the victim's cause of death can't be proven and the ...

HOUSTON — A Houston woman who'd gone her entire life without a speeding ticket is off the hook after a judge dismissed the ticket she got for going two miles over the speed limit. Cindy Nguyen ...

Under the new law, “the facts of the case related to [sedition] are now subsumable in a crime of disobedience,” Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena wrote in the statement. As a result, all arrest ...

On Friday morning, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said he would investigate whether any laws were violated in the crisis. "The situation in Flint is a human tragedy in which families are ...

Criminal charges have been dismissed against a woman who walked ... findings of the psychologist who evaluated Benz. According to Judge Sally Tarnowski's order dismissing the charges: At the ...

as her office appears ready to file criminal charges against people named in the report. A decision from her office is “imminent,” she told the judge. Twitter banned 24-year-old fascist ...

US judge has dismissed a lawsuit that claimed Taylor Swift stole lyrics to her hit song “Shake It Off”. The singer was facing a lawsuit from two songwriters who claimed she plagiarised ...

A charge of misdemeanor assault on a female against WCCB-TV morning news anchor Terrance Bates was dismissed on Monday in District Court in Mecklenburg County because his wife recanted her ...