WASHINGTON -- On the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, the bureau is adding a fugitive gang member wanted ...
From The Colorado Independent's John Tomasic. The latest early-vote tallies (pdf) released this afternoon by the Colorado secretary of state show R...
From 24/7 Wall St.: Earlier this year, the city of Stockton, California, defaulted on its debt and filed for bankruptcy. For analysts at ratings agenc...
DENVER -- Police in a Colorado town where the body of a missing 10-year-old girl was found said Friday that they want to question a teenage suspect in...
Storms loomed over Pennsylvania on Thursday, as residents across the Northeast braced for damaging weather. The National Weather Service issued tor...
By Joan Gralla July 2 (Reuters) - U.S. states and localities have run up more than $2 trillion of unfunded pension lia...
Coloradans have allowed our state's aversion to taxation to trump our desire for open government, while government lawyers have figured out how to put citizens seeking public records on the defensive.
If they don't make fans like they used to then there is at least one umpire who will be glad. After a youth softball game in Alabama this grandfather ...
By Verna Gates BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 2 (Reuters) - Alabama's bankrupt Jefferson County is laying off more government w...
Warren Buffett once referred to derivatives as "financial weapons of mass destruction" created by "madmen." Real WMD have rarely been used. However, derivatives are used quite a lot, and it appears that Italy got hit by the derivatives WMD in January.
Call this caper The Royal Flush. Or perhaps The Great Porcelain Pilferage. Police have arrested a man who they believe is a serial thief who stole toi...
As if a decade of million dollar fines for their role in the collapse of Enron, World Com, the UK's Financial Services Authority, mortgage overcharges...
March 5 (Reuters) - Alabama's Jefferson County is fully eligible for Chapter 9 bankruptcy protection and can proceed with its $4.23 billion filing, ...
We've experienced a three-decade long attack on government. While this may have had the effect of constraining unchecked power, it has also started to destroy critical government capacities. This has been especially true at the local level.
In bankrupt Jefferson County, Ala., the financial situation has grown so grim that the county does not have the money to hire enough elections divisio...
An 85-pound Argentine Mastiff dog named Max is lucky to be alive after falling into freezing cold Smith Reservoir in Lakewood, Colorado on Tuesday aft...
CENTER POINT, Ala. (AP) — Willie Williams Jr. was worried as he walked through his tornado-tossed neighborhood to his daughter's elementary school. ...
I was (at first) happy to see 60 Minutes highlight fiscal problems of states and municipalities. It explained how Illinois was late on payments to service suppliers, and it's a huge problem for people doing business with the state. Then 60 Minutes went completely off the rails.
From corrupt and incompetent local officials to Wall Street's credit crisis and toxic bonds, there was plenty of blame to go around on Thursday, a...
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio — An elderly Amish man was attacked by his own son, who a sheriff said cut the man's hair and beard in the latest incident in...
BERGHOLZ, Ohio — The leader of an Amish group with members accused of going into the home of another Amish man and cutting his hair and beard sa...
Colo. state mining regulators and Denver Water officials are demanding that Cotter Corp. clean up the defunct Schwartzwalder mine that is leaking uran...
A 13-year-old Jefferson County girl has been arrested in connection with a series of fires set in the area this summer. Police believe she was attemp...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (Melinda Dickinson and Matthew Bigg) - Alabama's Jefferson County voted Friday to accept a provisional deal to settle its $3.14 b...
EVERGREEN, Colo. — The American Civil Liberties Union intends to sue a Denver-area charter school for allegedly getting rid of a teacher who pum...
