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The referendums on care and the family saw a low turnout on Friday with just 25pc of registered voters casting ballots by 6pm before an evening spike saw overall estimates below 50pc in many regions.

'The last couple of referendums we've had there was going to be a very definite outcome and a very definite change - this one was harder to envisage what the...

The Supreme Court is set to take up a case that could outlaw homeless encampments.

The Government found a public that didnt really want these referenda utterly bereft of a reason to pass them.

Creech’s attorneys alleged in their court filing that the execution team had “badly botched” the planned lethal injection.

City of Corpus Christi gathers service providers and contractors to move homeless people from a north side area. Those without homes said they're being mistreated.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court in mid-February granted a petition asking it to consider whether the mandatory sentence for murder in the second degree — life without parole — is unconstitutional under both state and federal law. The decision, made public in a Supreme Court order issued Feb. 16, received immediate support from at least two […]

The civil case against Donald Trump was brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, a prosecutor who campaigned for her elected office on a pledge to get Trump. By bringing a civil case rather than a criminal prosecution, James denied Trump a

An Oregon city, Grants Pass, laid out arguments in its brief filed this week as it asks the high court to reverse an appellate decision that it says has…

A former female prisoner of the Georgia Department of Corrections filed a lawsuit against a former corrections officer alleging he raped her while she was in custody at Lee Arrendale State Prison.