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Finalists for Police Monitor have been narrowed from the original six to four. And tomorrow, the public can meet them before City Manager Marc Ott's anticipated selection this month.

Oh, for the days when men were men and women were wives. How much simpler it was when the man of the house sallied forth into the world and the little woman contented herself with home, hearth and family .

For an administration that came to power pledging greater transparency, so far the machinations of its Departments of Defense and State have only been revealed through a cinema verite Rolling Stone interview with the top general in Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, followed by the carefully calibrated, and immaculately timed release of a quarter ...

The federal case to decide whether the U.S. Constitution guarantees the right to gay marriage takes a new turn Monday, when lawyers on both sides will for the first time make their arguments before more than just judges.

Dec. 15 is the 219th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, and there are few topics more appropriate to discuss on this day than the decisions of the Roberts Supreme Court.

The judge who helped make DMX Arizona's public enemy no. 1 may have been involved in some shady business of his own.

Linda and Robert Lott want to grow marijuana in a Livonia warehouse and smoke it at a private social club Bloomfield Hills.

The ACLU's Freedom Tour, designed to highlight disparities in the criminal justice system, made its first stop at the Mansfield-Richland County Public Library.

The ongoing WikiLeaks revelations have aroused strong emotions. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called the documents' release "an attack on the international community, the alliances and partnerships, the conversations and negotiations that safeguard global security." In fact, the cables take the cloak off executive branch secrecy that has ...

Hey everyone! Hope you all have had a great week! I don't know about everyone else but it's definitely starting to feel like winter here in Missouri.

The manufacture and sale of medical marijuana has been legal in California since the 1990s and in Michigan as the of the 2008 election.

Documents recently obtained by the ACLU indicate that federal agencies have repeatedly violated legal limits governing the surveillance of American citizens.

Should public school graduations be held in churches? UPDATE: The AJC has a new story online reporting that a spokeswoman for Americans United for Separation of Church and State said other metro Atlanta school boards can expect to receive letters similar to the one Cherokee got in October demanding it stop holding graduations at First Baptist.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states clearly that nobody can infringe on my right of free speech.

Dennis Engelhard , the Missouri state trooper killed last Christmas by a passing vehicle while offering aid to a highway motorist after an accident, would have seen his survivors receive a $28,000 annual death benefit payment.

U.S. intelligence agencies engaging in electronic surveillance are failing to meet privacy safeguards in only a small number of instances, newly released government documents conclude.

Leah Chase, restaurateur and a pioneer of the civil rights movement in Louisiana, will be presented the 35th Annual Ben Smith Award by the ACLU Foundation of Louisiana.

From January through September, 29 unique groups have lobbied on the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" ban on openly gay service members, according to a Center for Responsive Politics review of federal lobbying reports explicitly mentioning the measure.

Request for Justice Department probe Seattle City Council statement Archive Man sues Seattle police, county over violent arrest Some Seattle police officers appear to "inflict injury out of anger" at suspects rather than to protect public safety, the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington says in a formal request to the U.S. Justice ...

Dozens of civil rights groups have filed a formal request asking the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether the Seattle Police Department has used "unnecessary and excessive force against residents." Story Published: Dec 3, 2010 at 8:45 AM PST Story Updated: Dec 3, 2010 at 9:20 AM PST SEATTLE - Dozens of civil rights groups have filed a ...