A landmark settlement in a suit brought by Democrats was signed on Thursday, Jan. 23, providing Nassau County with a new ...

Nassau legislators serve two-year terms and there are no term limits. Other countywide offices, including that of the county ...

The second lawsuit, filed last February by the Brooklyn-based advocacy group New York Communities for Change, alleged racially polarized voting occurred in Nassau and the redistricting plan "dilutes ...

Now, once signed by the Court, a consent decree in New York Communities for Change v. Nassau County will replace that discriminatory map with a politically fair map that includes six districts in ...

A New York county has agreed to redraw its voting map after a lawsuit claimed its political boundaries disenfranchised residents of color.

A former New York State Police trooper who claimed that a driver shot him, triggering a region-wide manhunt, made the whole ...

The settlement -- the first of its kind under the New York Municipal Home Rule Law and New York Voting Rights Act -- secures fair maps for Nassau County voters, replacing Nassau County's current ...

The wealthiest areas in the US are almost 7 times richer than the poorest regions, a disparity that has nearly doubled since ...

The wealthiest cities in the U.S. are almost seven times richer than the poorest regions, a disparity that has nearly doubled ...