Residents can once again rely on ATL311 for help in emergencies involving people experiencing mental health and substance abuse crises, after a monthslong battle between the city and ...

The goal is to prevent young people from getting a criminal record and time in jail, giving them a better shot at reducing ...

Executive Ryan Mello told senators and representatives the county needs help funding core services like public safety, ...

They can also be denied services and benefits — or opportunities for citizenship — promised by military recruiters.

BRS leader T. Harish Rao speaks about the legal course BRS would take after Telangana High Court ruling on K.T. Rama Rao's ...

Like old soldiers around the country, a group of former service members gathered in Crest Hill, Illinois to remember fallen ...

Inadequate funding, unmanageable caseloads and antiquated systems complicate public defenders' ability to provide adequate criminal defense, advocates warn.

Fifty years after the official end of U.S. intervention in southeast Asia, “Vietnam vets are still the single largest population of war veterans in prison, illustrating the profound and lasting impact ...

“Stanley and Tod Nalipinski pleaded guilty to having caught 55 undersized perch ... The number in itself is a violation of ...

Joel Smithers, a former Martinsville-based doctor, is facing a new sentencing after he was found guilty of hundreds of drug ...

After a viral video circulated on social media sites alleging that inmates abused a dog at the Clayton County animal shelter, ...