Michael Corkery

Officials are moving to increase enforcement and change laws in response to the rise in counterfeit or expired plates, which exploded during the pandemic.

A longstanding practice of using a child’s federal survivor and disability benefits to defray the cost of foster care is under scrutiny in Congress and statehouses.

Montana’s suicide rate has been the highest in the U.S. for the past three years. Most of the deaths involved firearms. But suicide rarely registers in the national debate over guns.

With heat indexes forecast to reach 110 degrees in western Pennsylvania, about 6,700 people were still without power after damaging wind and rain storms earlier this week.

Across the country, copper and other valuable materials have been stolen from streetlights, statues and even gravesites, costing millions to repair.

In California, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s declaration urging cities to clear homeless camps met its strongest opposition in Los Angeles.

With voters already casting ballots, the two parties are still battling over the requirements for who gets to vote and which votes count.

A judge from the county’s Court of Common Pleas granted the Trump campaign’s request. The American Civil Liberties Union, which often opposes Republican groups on legal challenges to voting procedures, applauded the Trump effort.

The group’s actions in Columbus on Saturday, part of a recent pattern of white supremacist incidents in the country, were condemned by officials around the state.

New Mexico has among the highest rates of killings by police officers in the U.S., and officials are trying to reduce the number of deadly encounters.