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EXCLUSIVE: A busing crisis is hampering Los Angeles courts after a powerful local agency slashed funding to the sheriff’s department in a long-simmering feud — an operational breakdown that is ...

A finance company is suing the Illinois Department of Corrections in federal court because the department missed an annual payment last fall on four prisoner transport buses. Wells Fargo Equipment ...