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An army of Confederate monuments dots Virginia’s landscape but some of those statues could soon start coming down after Election Day gave Democrats control of the General Assembly for the first time in decades.

A law firm that represented former Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez in a corruption case is suing the city to try to collect $1 million in legal fees.

Leaders from both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border will gather in El Paso Wednesday night to memorialize the 22 people killed this month when a gunman opened fire at a Walmart in the Texas border city.

The New Haven Police Department is holding an open house to search for new recruits for the next class of officers.

A Connecticut man who alleges police beat him while he was handcuffed is suing 13 officers and other officials for $5 million.

A former City of New Haven employee terminated in August for allegedly misusing a city credit card turned herself in to police Thursday morning, according to Chief Anthony Campbell.

New Haven Public Schools is cutting dozens of full-time employees, many of them school counselors, as the district continues to grapple with a budget deficit.

The New Haven public school districts has rescinded layoff notices sent to some part-time employees earlier this year.

More than 1,000 part-time New Haven public school employees might lose their jobs due to budget cuts, according to city officials.

City spokesman Laurence Grotheer said that 1,100 people are receiving the layoff notices, but it’s possible some of them may be rehired after officials look into adjusting job descriptions after summer vacation.

A stinking trainload of human waste from New York City that was stranded in a tiny Alabama town for more than two months, spreading a stench like a giant backed-up toilet, has been hauled away.

A stinking trainload of human waste from New York City is stranded in a tiny Alabama town, spreading a stench like a giant backed-up toilet — and the “poop train” is just the latest example of the South being used as a dumping ground for other states’ waste. In Parrish, Alabama, population 982, the sludge-hauling train cars have sat idle...

The city of Hayward is apologizing for using a taco pun in an official tweet to promote a council meeting to discuss sanctuary protections.

The site of a train-tour bus crash that killed four people in Mississippi has a troubling history of accidents, including two this year, local and federal officials said Wednesday. National Transportation Safety Board member Robert Sumwalt said the crossing in Biloxi has a hump that has caused tractor-trailers to bottom out, and the federal agency is looking into whether the...

At least four people are dead after a train collided with a charter bus in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Thousands of people ordered to evacuate flooding in San Jose, California, Tuesday returned home Thursday amid warnings to be careful about hygiene and handling food that may have come into contact with flood water....
About two-thirds of the 14,000 evacuees were being allowed to return home while 3,800 people remain under a mandatory evacuation order issued when a creek overflowed following...

A dozen members of a marching band were injured Tuesday after an SUV “accelerated and struck them” at the start of a Mardi Gras parade in Gulf Shores, Alabama, a city spokesman said. Four of the injured are in critical condition at local hospitals, Gulf Shores spokesman Grant Brown said in a news conference. The 73-year-old driver is being interviewed...

Inspectors performed in Berkeley since the deadly balcony collapse in Berkeley last summer revealed more than 400 buildings with balconies, stairways, decks and landings, need repairs, according to a city report released Wednesday afternoon.

The death toll rose to six in Texas as more bodies were recovered on Saturday after another band of strong storms and heavy rain spawned three tornadoes and dangerous flooding in the waterlogged state.

A Northern California city is using humor to get drivers to slow down and pedestrians to pay attention.