San Jose hasn't hesitated to implement a wave of policies and programs aimed at tamping down homelessness since a U.S.

One group has met a deadline to collect signatures for a statewide ballot amendment. On Friday, Protect AR Rights said they ...

In a decision issued on the last day of its current term, the Supreme Court upheld state laws in Idaho and West Virginia banning transgender women ...

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The court acknowledged the ADOC's suicide rate was “more than double the national average among state and federal ...

A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday agreed that people incarcerated within Alabama’s ...

Jeffery Lee murdered two people during a pawnshop robbery in Orrville, Alabama, in 1998. He was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death — though the jury voted 7-5 for life, and the judge ...

Tuesday’s decision in Pung v. Isabella County squarely rejects an argument that the longstanding use of tax foreclosure sales as a method to collect unpaid real-estate taxes violates the takings ...

The justices said the Pung family is only owed the surplus proceeds of the tax sale of their former home in Isabella County ...

This amendment prohibits the federal government from imposing unduly harsh penalties on criminal defendants, either as the price for obtaining pretrial release or as punishment for crime after ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Attorneys are calling on Governor Bill Lee to pause all state executions, following the failed execution of death row inmate Tony Carruthers. This comes after Tony Carruthers, the ...

The ballot measure that would have enshrined abortion in the state constitution failed to meet the 60% threshold to pass, even though a clear majority of voting Floridians – over 6 million of them – ...