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The state's budget crisis has been blamed on low oil prices, but it affects local governments too. That's because a portion of oil and gas tax revenue is…

Jurors convicted former private zoo owner Joseph Maldonado-Passage, known as “Joe Exotic,” Tuesday afternoon on two murder-for-hire charges. He pleaded…

The Los Angeles Laker legend, who died shockingly more than two months ago, headlined a star-studded 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame class on Saturday that also includes Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett.

The federal judge and erstwhile Supreme Court nominee — whose case was never taken up by Senate Republicans — could be asked by the new administration to take the reins of the Justice Department.

Over the last decade, Turkey has averaged at least five percent growth of gross domestic product per year with a per capita income now more than $17,000,…

The almost 13-minute speech marked the first time a senator had addressed the legislative body entirely in a foreign language.

South Carolina's highest court ruled that the 3-year-old central figure in a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Indian Child Welfare Act should be returned to the white couple that agreed to adopt her before her birth, and not her Native American father, who later claimed his parental rights.

President Barack Obama says he hasn't made a final decision about a military strike against Syria. But he says he's considering a limited and narrow…

U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) says the federal government should have no role in the country's local and state police forces.Homeland Security, Justice,…

In states with the most oil and gas drilling, including Texas, Oklahoma and North Dakota, the U.S. Department of Labor has won back pay for over 4,000…

The Workers' Compensation Commission approved its first full fiscal year budget Thursday totaling $4.5 million.Executive Director Rick Farmer walked the…

Black men make up a strikingly large percentage of the approximately 3,100 inmates on death row. The ratio of white to black inmates serving death sentences has remained steady since 2000.