'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
"ICUHAJI." That's the root of a legal battle between Iraq war veteran Sean Bujno and the commonwealth of Virginia.
The District's automated traffic enforcement program increased its revenue by more than 100 percent from 2011 to 2012, jumping from $42.9 million to $95.6 million, according to figures released Thursday by the city.
D.C. Attorney General Irvin B. Nathan took the unusual step this week of opining on the dismissal of a speed-camera citation issued to a Metropolitan Police Department sergeant who captured widespread attention last month from the public, consumer advocates and the media when he successfully appealed a Third Street Tunnel ticket to the Department of Motor Vehicles.
Civil liberties and privacy advocates in Virginia are incensed over a state study's recommendation to continue research on technology that tracks the specific location of state-issued license plates — a move proponents say would help police and toll operators more readily identify potential scofflaws.
The District's plan to pursue financial freedom from Congress through an amendment to the D.C. charter is being hailed after the prospect of budget autonomy has seemingly gone nowhere in the 18 months since it was proposed by a prominent congressional Republican.
The D.C. Council is poised to lower the cost of speed camera tickets from a maximum of $250 to just $50. The plan unveiled on Tuesday is meant to create the impression that the District has seen the light and has finally decided to go easier on motorists.
Virginia residents who make mistakes on their voter-registration forms may find themselves declared noncitizens and ineligible to vote by their county boards of elections, regardless of their actual status.
Betty White isn't the only woman of a certain, ahem, older age still thriving on television.
Betty White isn't the only woman of a certain, ahem, older age still thriving on television.
South Carolina is in federal court arguing that its new law requiring people prove their identity at the polls won't make voting so tough that it reduces turnout of blacks, Hispanics and other minorities.
Recognizing that this year's elections are just six weeks away, a panel of three federal judges questioned on Monday whether South Carolina should wait until 2014 to put its voter-identification law into effect.
A new Maryland law requiring mo-peds and motor scooters to be titled and insured and for drivers to take extra safety precautions goes into effect next week.
A 50-state look at the varying rules across the nation governing drivers' licenses for older adults. ___
For every resident, there's been an aftershock. A year after a 5.8-magnitude earthquake shook the ground from North Carolina to New Jersey, the 471-person town of Mineral at the quake's epicenter continues to tremble.
Maryland residents can now register online to vote using a new Web-based system.
