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Curtis Hertel Jr., Register of Deeds for Ingham County, says that a discovery he made involving alleged fraudulent mortgage documents is now being investigated by both the Ingham County Sheriff’s Department and the FBI. “Yes, this is, in my opinion, fraud,” Hertel said.

New Mexico House Democrats reintroduced a compromise bill tightening requirements for foreign nationals applying for driver’s licenses Friday, but Gov. Martinez called it a “partisan gimmick.” The bill, almost identical to the one passed in the Senate during the regular session, would require driver’s licenses for those without a Social Security number to be renewed every two years — instead of every four to eight — and additional documentation proving New Mexico residency. Some of the notices sent out to foreign nationals asking them to prove state residency were sent back because the license-holders never lived at the address, the address did not exist or they simply moved out-of-state.

Federal regulators performing a blitz of safety inspections on unsafe mines last month temporarily closed down six operations in Kentucky over safety

I emailed Michael Ledeen, the neoconservative scholar at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, for comment on President Obama receiving the 2009 Nobel

Yesterday, the Senate passed by overwhelming margins two amendments to Sen. Chris Dodd’s (D-Conn.) financial regulatory reform bill: One sponsored by Sen.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano confirmed today that Secure Communities, a program that provides federal immigration officials with

2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney (Pic by Gage Skidmore, via Flickr) GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney announced the members of his Social Conservatives Statewide Steering Committee today; the list includes prominent anti-gay rights and anti-abortion rights activists in Florida’s Christian right circles. According to a press release from the campaign posted by The Miami Herald : Each member has been an active voice in state politics and an advocate for conservative causes and issue campaigns. The Romney campaign will utilize this coalition to perform voter outreach and coalition building for Get Out the Vote efforts

President Obama held a press conference on Tuesday to defend the deal he struck with Republicans to extend federal unemployment benefits and the Bush tax cuts for the richest taxpayers, but Democratic lawmakers still expressed their dismay at the deal. Obama declared that the United States was “founded on compromise” and that he would not be held hostage to some “abstract ideal.” That did little to satisfy some Democrats, who criticized Obama for not pushing hard enough to win the votes for a more progressive package. Rep

Maybe it’s something in the water, but Colorado lawmakers are increasingly leading the charge on the wave of bipartisanship that’s sweeping Washington. Whether it will continue – or result in any substantial change in what many deem a badly broken system – remains to be seen. Fresh off of his co-mingling effort at Tuesday’s State of the Union speech by President Obama , Democratic Sen

Two young activists arrested this morning for protesting mountaintop removal coal mining in Appalachia will have to come up with $100,000 in bail if they want

Minnesota is the only state to face the possibility of a government shutdown this year, but at least twenty states have had late budgets since 2002.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, son of legendary Michigan Governor George Romney, came through Michigan on Wednesday on a fundraising trip. But the Michigan Democratic Party questioned why Michigan residents would support Romney after he advocated killing the state’s major industry. In a press release, the MDP said: As Mitt Romney kicked off a fundraising and campaign swing through the Detroit area today, he’ll have to answer to Michigan voters for his advocacy of auto industry bankruptcy in 2008.

Democrats are no longer the only ones going after Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) for holding up unemployment benefits. Sen. Susan Collins, moderate Republican from

Descend for a moment, won’t you, into a bureaucratic labyrinth with me, in pursuit of constitutional rights and government transparency. In April, anonymous

Bad news for consumer advocates who experienced a flutter of hope this week when Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) swapped Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) -- an opponent

The agency that would be responsible for oversight of the Keystone XL pipeline has not studied the safety measures necessary for a pipeline that carries tar sands crude. The U.S. State Dept.

San Antonio’s City Council extended health benefits to city employees’ domestic partners Thursday night with a 7-4 vote, ending weeks of debate at City Hall and