WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready during oral arguments Monday to restrict state laws allowing the counting of late-arriving ballots, in a challenge to Mississippi’s state law on absentee ballots.

Mississippi allows state officials to count mail ballots that were postmarked on or before Election Day but arrive up to five ...Read more

Maryland Republicans often accuse Democrats of overspending taxpayer dollars and failing to bring in enough revenue in return. But on Monday, Senate Minority Leader Steve Hershey asked his chamber colleagues to pass a bill that would place a $449 million price on annual Medicaid funds, placing a heavier burden on taxpayer dollars used to cover ...Read more

In a 135-1 vote, the Maryland House of Delegates on Monday passed a bill requiring public schools statewide to sharply limit student use of personal electronic devices during the school day, as lawmakers debated how such restrictions would be enforced in practice.

The Maryland Phone-Free Schools Act, or House Bill 525, would require every local...Read more

WASHINGTON — A coalition of states filed a lawsuit Monday challenging a Trump administration effort to impose certain conditions on billions of dollars for key federal nutrition programs from the Department of Agriculture.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts by 20 states and the District of Columbia...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted a former waitress in 1972 after escorting her to one of his shows, a civil jury in California concluded Monday, awarding the woman $19.25 million in damages.

The verdict was the latest turn in a series of legal battles the disgraced entertainer, now 88, has faced since allegations that ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Kermit Gosnell, the infamous West Philadelphia abortion doctor who was sentenced to life in prison on murder and manslaughter convictions in 2013, has died.

Gosnell, 85, died earlier this month at a hospital, the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections said. He was most recently being held at State Correctional Institution ...Read more

DENVER — A task force of consumer advocates and technology groups released a proposed framework to rewrite Colorado’s artificial intelligence regulations on Tuesday, setting off a renewed public debate on how to govern the new — and rapidly growing — technology.

The new proposal is the third attempt in two years to find agreement on how...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Haverford College students plan to discuss and possibly vote on a resolution that calls on President Wendy Raymond to establish a review committee that would consider whether to strip megadonor and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s name from the library.

The move follows concerns expressed by Haverford students and ...Read more

The Trump administration says it is prepared to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Liberia within days. Now his attorneys have two weeks to argue why that should not happen before a federal judge decides.

Under a court-ordered schedule, Abrego Garcia’s legal team was given a two-week window Monday to respond after the administration laid out its ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A Broward County judge has ruled that three Miami-Dade police officers who were involved in a shootout that killed a bystander and a UPS driver taken hostage by jewelry store robbers should not face manslaughter charges based on Florida’s Stand Your Ground law.

Miami-Dade police officers Rodolfo Mirabal, Richard ...Read more

President Donald Trump Monday invoked the name of Jesus Christ in a call for lawmakers to scrap their Easter break and stay in Washington, D.C. to try to pass his package of new voting restrictions.

Speaking at a public safety roundtable in Memphis, Trump said the Republican-led Senate should only focus on passing his SAVE Act and shouldn’t ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two pilots were killed when the jet they were landing at LaGuardia Airport collided with a Port Authority fire truck, authorities said Monday.

The dramatic seconds before and after the crash, which happened about 11:35 p.m. Sunday and left more than 40 survivors hurt, was captured on audio, with an air traffic controller saying he ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — An effort to repeal Cesar Chavez Day in Minnesota and scrub the farm labor leader’s name from a major street and charter school in St. Paul is quickly gaining momentum, following revelations that Chavez groomed and sexually abused girls who worked as part of his movement.

Democratic state lawmakers said Monday, March 23, ...Read more

New Jersey has another new U.S. attorney.

District court judges on Monday said veteran Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer would lead the office, the latest twist in an ongoing leadership saga that has been unfolding in the state’s legal system over the past year.

Frazer’s promotion to serve as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor took ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Californians may be forced to put their ballots in the mail well before Election Day to be certain they will be counted.

That’s the likely outcome of a Republican challenge to mail-in ballots that came before the Supreme Court on Monday.

The court’s six conservatives sounded ready to rule that federal law requires that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Officials are moving Tuesday to strip the name of César Chávez from two Los Angeles school district campuses as fallout continues over allegations against the late labor leader of rape and sexual misconduct with minors.

A resolution to rename the schools will be considered on an emergency basis at an L.A. Board of Education ...Read more

New Jersey has another new U.S. attorney.

District court judges on Monday said veteran Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Frazer would lead the office, the latest twist in an ongoing leadership saga that has been unfolding in the state’s legal system over the past year.

Frazer’s promotion to serve as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor took ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Bill Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted a former waitress in 1972 after escorting her to one of his shows, a civil jury in California concluded Monday, awarding the woman $19.25 million in damages.

The verdict was the latest turn in a series of legal battles the disgraced entertainer, now 88, has faced since allegations that ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The attorney generals of North Carolina and South Carolina are calling on President Donald Trump to help crack down on fentanyl-related money laundering through encrypted chat apps.

N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson spoke at a news conference Monday morning alongside South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and Charlotte...Read more

NEW YORK — More than 600 flights into and out of LaGuardia were canceled Monday after the fatal crash on runway four, according to information complied by the website FlightAware.

Terminal B was largely empty Monday morning as the airport was under a ground-stop order while federal investigators combed the scene.

Flights began again shortly ...Read more