Firefighters used to spend a lot more time fighting fires. In 1980, nearly 30 percent of calls to fire departments pertained to fires. By 2004, only 7 percent did and the absolute number of fires ...

Fears of widespread voting irregularities, vote counting problems and voter intimidation haven’t materialized on Election Day in Maine, even as overall turnout hurtled toward record numbers. In fact, ...

Detroit's problems counting its Aug. 4 primary ballots are not an isolated incident, but reflect a pattern of troubles over at least 15 years that have included judicial intervention, recounts of ...

Japan's Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Bank and the trust banking arm of Mizuho Financial Group said on Thursday they would cut the monthly salaries of their chief executives after vote-counting problems were ...