Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels endorsed Valparaiso Mayor Jon Costas for attorney general on Monday and Tony Bennett, superintendent of Greater Clark County Schools, for superintendent of public instruction.

A county audit has revealed that two registered sex offenders were living in child care and foster care facilities in the Peninsula, though no children were harmed on the two cases, county officials said.

The state Attorney General’s Office has agreed to pay out $500,000 of state funds to relatives of a man beaten to death by guards at Baltimore City’s Central Booking facility, sources said.

The man known as the Beltway Sniper has asked Virginia prosecutors to waive his rights to appeal his conviction and death sentence for the 2002 killing spree that left 10 people in the D.C. area dead.

Those in possession of drug paraphernalia as part of a needle-exchange program can be prosecuted, the Texas Attorney General's Office said Monday, clearing the way for a case against three activists who passed out clean syringes.

Reports of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama courting former presidential rival John Edwards for his support abound, with some suggesting that Obama may offer Edwards — who served one term representing North Carolina in the Senate — an appointment as attorney general of the United States.

A former Coconino County fiduciary aide faces state criminal charges alleging she defrauded the county and some of its wards of roughly $17,000.

Some students at a historically black university are wondering why an investigation by the office of Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott into alleged voting rights violations is still not finished.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Wednesday's U.S. Supreme Court decision to allow lethal injections for death row inmates affirms California's capital punishment procedure and would allow executions to resume.

Gov. Charlie Crist signed a bill into law on Tuesday that will allow Florida residents to keep guns locked in their cars at work.