President Obama urged police and citizens to work harder to eliminate racial bias in policing, saying, "all of us as Americans should be troubled" by the videotaped police shootings of black men this week.
Over the past three decades, state and local expenditures on prisons and jails have increased more than three times as fast as spending on elementary and secondary education.
GRANT - The company seeking to build a controversial large-scale dairy farm in Saratoga was cleared of violating environmental regulations after it spread manure near homes and a prized trout stream, the state said.