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ATLANTA (AP) -- The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Georgia man to be put to death for killing a police officer two weeks after it halted his execution to consider his appeal. Troy Davis asked the high court to intervene in his…

A judge has ordered Michigan election officials to stop automatically canceling a voter's registration if the card is returned as undeliverable. Federal Judge Stephen Murphy in Detroit ruled Monday in a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and a group representing college students.…

by Liese Klein NEW HAVEN - New Haven's controversial Elm City Resident Card is entering its second year with steady participation from the business community, city officials say. The New Haven Board of Aldermen's finance committee approved a second year for the cards on October…

by MICHAEL GRACZYK The crowd on A-Wing A-Section at the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Polunsky Unit is about to get thinned. A dozen condemned inmates in the so-called "death watch" cells on Texas death row are set for lethal injection over the next six…

by JOHN MILLER Secretary of State Ben Ysursa has changed a Web site warning that students could face criminal penalties if they abuse voter registration residency requirements after concerns were raised that the wording could scare off young voters. Previously, a page on Ysursa's Web…

by Melinda Tuhus New Haven's immigrant-friendly ID card - which this woman said has led newcomers to learn English faster - got a delayed OK for its second year of funding. The Board of Aldermen's Finance Committee unanimously voted Tuesday night to approve the city's…

Original Source By William Kaempffer, Register Staff NEW HAVEN - It took nearly 2 1/2 hours, but an aldermanic committee Tuesday ultimately voted to authorize the acceptance of funding for the city's much-debated municipal identification card. While the Finance Committee vote was unanimous, there was…

by BRIAN WITTE Maryland rarely executes prisoners and reserves such punishment for the worst criminals, a prosecutor told a state commission Tuesday. But a commissioner once sentenced to death said his case proved that innocent people can end up on death row. Baltimore County State's…

by CARL O'BRIEN THE GOVERNMENT repatriated more than 500 eastern European migrants to their home countries so far this year under a scheme aimed at assisting destitute immigrants. In the eight months leading up to August a total of 511 migrants were repatriated. The number…

by GINGER THOMPSON The latest arrest figures from the Border Patrol and a report released on Thursday by the Pew Hispanic Center indicate that fewer people are trying to enter the United States illegally and that the number living here without documents has declined. A…