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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows Joseph Rudolph Wood, who was executed on July 23, 2014. Wood was given 15 doses of a two-drug combination over two hours in an execution that his attorney said was botched. Executions in Arizona were put on hold after Wood's July 2014 death, but Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich says the state is now poised to resume executions. (Arizona Department of Corrections via AP, File)

Official: Arizona to resume executions after 5-year hiatus

By JACQUES BILLEAUD - Associated Press

Gwen Carr, mother of chokehold victim Eric Garner, speaks outside the U.S. Attorney's office, in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Tuesday, July 16, 2019, as Rev. Al Sharpton listens, center. Federal prosecutors won't bring civil rights charges against New York City police officer Daniel Pantaleo, in the 2014 chokehold death of Garner, a decision made by Attorney General William Barr and announced one day before the five-year anniversary of his death, officials said. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

De Blasio beats back calls to fire officer in Garner death

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

Mississippi Department of Mental Health Director Diana Mikula exits the federal courthouse in Jackson, Miss., Monday, July 1, 2019, after closing arguments were presented on whether Mississippi's mental health system breaks the law by unnecessarily confining people. The U.S. Justice Department urged a judge to order changes saying Mississippi's move toward providing community services is far too slow, forcing people into hospital stays that could be avoided. While attorneys for the state argue Mississippi is progressing on its own. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Judge gets challenge to Mississippi mental health system

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

This file photo released April 19, 2013, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of carrying out the April 2013 Boston Marathon bombing attack that killed three people and injured more than 260. A prosecutors' response is due Thursday, June 27, 2019, in the Boston Marathon bomber's death penalty appeal. Tsarnaev has been on federal death row since his 2015 conviction. (FBI via AP, File)

Feds urge court to reject Boston Marathon bomber’s appeal

By BY ALANNA DURKIN RICHER - Associated Press

In this Friday, June 21, 2019 photo, Moss Point, Miss., resident Harold Biggs, 75, speaks about the mental illness that affects his daughter and the insufficient mental health care she has received from the state. His daughter, unnamed to protect her privacy, has been in state hospitals for 12 of the last 24 years, including more than four years on the last stay. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

Mississippi fights lawsuit over reliance on mental hospitals

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

This combination of undated photos provided by the Alabama Department of Corrections shows Jarvis Terrell Taylor, left, and Jeremy Rashad Bailey. Bailey, an inmate at Fountain Correctional Facility, was killed Saturday, June 15, 2019, in a stabbing that occurred at the facility in Atmore, Ala. Officials identified fellow inmate Taylor, who is being charged with murder, as a suspect in the stabbing. (Alabama Department of Corrections via AP)

Inmate fatally stabbed at state prison in south Alabama

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Doctor, 66, faces 3 years in prison in fraud scheme

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FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2017 file photo signs display lottery prizes in Chicago. A recent opinion by the U.S. Justice Department has put a handful of states in danger of losing at least $220 million in lottery profits that they use to fund college scholarships, senior citizen services and a variety of other programs. The states are anxiously waiting on a clarification from the Justice Department about its opinion that could outlaw lottery tickets sold online. (AP Photo/G-Jun Yam, File)

AP Analysis: Justice Dept. reversal could cost states $220M

By REGINA GARCIA CANO and JENNIFER McDERMOTT - Associated Press

N Carolina man settles claims he sexually harassed renters

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FILE - In this Aug. 22, 2017 file photo signs display lottery prizes in Chicago. A recent opinion by the U.S. Justice Department has put a handful of states in danger of losing at least $220 million in lottery profits that they use to fund college scholarships, senior citizen services and a variety of other programs. The states are anxiously waiting on a clarification from the Justice Department about its opinion that could outlaw lottery tickets sold online. (AP Photo/G-Jun Yam, File)

The Latest: DOJ: Lottery not proven its immune from Wire Act

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Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson is shown a view of Philadelphia by Lopa Kolluri, Chief Development and Operating Officer for the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA), Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, in Philadelphia. Carson was in Philadelphia to announce the awarding of $74 million in grants to hundreds of public housing authorities across the country. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Larma) ** FILE **

Ben Carson encourages sexual harassment reporting under Fair House Act

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Judge gives Justice Department a deadline in lottery case

By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press

Judge clears path to trial in Eastpointe voting rights case

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Justice Department gives California $8.3M for Vegas victims

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FILE - In this Jan. 18, 2019 file photo, former Chicago police Officer Jason Van Dyke attends his sentencing hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building in Chicago, for the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald. The Illinois attorney general's office has signaled it may be considering a rare sentencing-related appeal if it concludes the white Chicago police officer's less-than-seven-year prison sentence in the slaying of black teenager McDonald was wrongly calculated. The office said in an emailed statement Thursday, Jan. 24, it is reviewing Van Dyke's sentence. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP, Pool, File)

Judge OKs Chicago’s historic court-monitored police reforms

By MICHAEL TARM - Associated Press

Kentucky editorial roundup

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FILE - In this July 11, 2018 file photo, Roxanne White, whose aunt was murdered in 1996, sings and drums a women's warrior and honor song created for missing and murdered indigenous women, before joining a search in Valier, Mont., for Ashley HeavyRunner Loring, who disappeared last year from the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Federal figures show the number of Indian Country crimes that the U.S. Justice Department prosecutes has not shown significant change in recent years, despite new programs and attempts to boost public safety on reservations and prosecution rates sexual assaults and other crimes. The Justice Department report released Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2018, shows U.S. attorneys' offices declined to prosecute 37 percent of the total number Indian Country cases they considered resolved in 2017. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Federal report: Indian Country criminal prosecutions plateau

By MARY HUDETZ - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2017 file photo, Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald speaks at a press conference to announce the discipline for Officer William Martin in Forth Worth, Texas. Baltimore's mayor has chosen Fitzgerald as her nominee to lead the city's troubled force, seeking to reign in a soaring pace of homicides and boost public trust in a tattered department. Mayor Catherine Pugh on Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, picked Fitzgerald, saying he's led a large police department and was &quot;well versed on training and community engagement.&quot; Her spokesman confirmed that she expects Fitzgerald will start working as acting leader in coming days. (Rodger Mallison /Star-Telegram via AP)

Steep challenges face Baltimore’s next police leader

By DAVID McFADDEN - Associated Press

Settlement: Hospital group to stop anticompetitive measures

By JONATHAN DREW - Associated Press

Former deputy police chief in Louisiana convicted

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