The hundreds of new policies include removing barriers to supportive housing, restricting the use of in-school restraints and ...

More than 200 new Washington state laws take effect Thursday. Among them are tax hikes, enhancements to the state’s Voting ...

State grant funding will allow the office to hire more staff, which Prosecutor Chris Becker says should reduce the average ...

From late fees to dynamic pricing, toll roads continue to be a hotspot for misinformation and confusion.

Law enforcement officers have praised the technology as a critical tool for fighting crime — but some community members have ...

Macomb Circuit Judge Jennifer Faunce ruled after Assistant Prosecutor Cory Newman argued that former officer James Burke’s ...

A national system tracks serious bus crashes so regulators can keep roads safe. But the process fails to identify most of a ...

WTOP sent questions to each candidate for D.C. attorney general to help voters understand options in June’s primary election.

The case against all six people who were charged has been dropped, but the financial and psychological toll lingers for them.

MINNEAPOLIS — Twin Cities activist Isabel Lopez faced the possibility of decades in prison after being accused of assaulting federal agents during an anti-immigration enforcement protest in south ...

Punishment Without Crime: How Our Massive Misdemeanor System Traps the Innocent and Makes America More Unequal By Alexandra Natapoff • Basic Books • 2018 • 352 pages • $30 Although many of the ...

State law prohibits political parties from financially backing one of their candidates over another before the primary ...