State & Local Executive Branches

Jackson, Mississippi, Mayor Frank Melton has been playing drug warrior since day one. Now he finds himself on the other side of the law.

A hi-tech surveillance company's bragging about its secret demonstration during a music festival has drawn criticism for police about the operation.

The rotten odor of drug war-related police corruption wafts across Tennessee from the banks of the Mississippi to the hazy hills of the Great Smoky Mountains, and that's just half of our corrupt cops this week.

Pittsburgh's sole needle exchange program is one step closer to being formalized after its legality was challenged earlier this year.

A national scandal is brewing in the Big Easy over thousands of people imprisoned without access to lawyers or the courts.

A South Dakota judge has thrown out the attorney general's medical marijuana initiative ballot summary as biased and unfair and replaced it with language of his own crafting.

We have a Southern trifecta this week, with missing evidence in Alabama, a rogue task force in Mississippi, and a drug-dealing jail guard in Louisiana.

It's an unusual week for the corrupt cops stories, with a narc caught thieving, a cop caught making false arrests, a jail guard caught trafficking in a big way, and a state judge caught with methamphetamine and precursors.

Grayson County, Texas, is nothing special, just your average heartland county. That's what makes a review of its court cases so revealing.

California prosecutors hope the third time is the charm in their effort to secure a murder conviction against a woman whose infant son had methamphetamine in his blood when he died. She's already serving 10 years for child endangerment.