Jefferson County has 20 such representatives, all of whom have to agree to any decision.
Last year, Jefferson County, Alabama, filed the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S history.
Jefferson County Mental Health has spearheaded the counseling effort, making sure victims receive the assistance they need.
An undercover sting in 2011 led to the first indictment under the 2007 law in Jefferson County.
From 1975 to 2000, for example, the Jefferson County school district remained under a court order to desegregate.
After examining store sales records, police now believe those transactions never happened, said Jefferson County District Attorney David Thomas.
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"You do not laugh at Mr. Glock, " says Christopher Edwards, the burly former deputy sheriff of Jefferson County, Ky.
The idea was to reflect the whole of Jefferson County, which is 60 percent white and 38 percent black.
However, 2008 would have been a record year even without Jefferson County, Ala.
At the heart of the Jefferson county bankruptcy are the costs associated with a project for its sanitary sewer system.
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Records released later by the Jefferson County Sheriff's office showed that Harris and Klebold had their own circle of friends.
Similarly, when Boulder county banned smoking, fatal accidents in Jefferson county, between Boulder county and Denver, went up by 40%.
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"The investigation is under way, " Deputy Steve Davis of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department said at midday on Wednesday.
Jefferson County Coroner John Graham identified the two victims as a married couple, Samuel Lucas, 77, and Linda Lucas, 76.
They have scoured court records from Cleveland to Jefferson County, Alabama, to throw light on the darker side of the business.
As Stephanie Walter shared, Jefferson County Joint Vocational School desperately needs that support to fix its leaking roof and crumbling infrastructure.
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After the convictions, DeWine said he is asking the Jefferson County Common Pleas Court to convene a grand jury on April 15.
To balance its budget last year, Jefferson County School District laid off a number of teachers and education support staff, including me.
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"These subjects were not only on a killing rampage, but they were going to destroy the school, " said Jefferson County Sheriff John Stone.
Davis, professor of pathology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and associate coroner for Jefferson County, which includes the city.
Authorities charged Richmond and Mays on August 27, the same day Jefferson County's prosecuting attorney asked DeWine's office to take over the case.
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Ash, whose past includes a stint in the construction business, is currently a minister working volunteer work at a prison in Jefferson County, Colorado.
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In one case, the state government amended a local law in Jefferson County in contradictory ways and then took 30 years to sort it out.
They were being held in the Jefferson County juvenile detention center without bond, as is customary with juveniles, said Jefferson County assistant prosecutor Sam Pate.
Even with the Jefferson County bankruptcy, this is "the perfect market to be Birmingham, " says Matt Fabian, a managing director of Municipal Market Advisors.
Remember that once-stable municipalities like Jefferson County, Alabama, and Stockton, California have all filed for bankruptcy and many other cities and towns stand on the brink.
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Just weeks ago it seemed Jefferson county and its creditors had dodged the bankruptcy bullet when they attempted to reach a deal over the billions in debt.
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And the market has been showing signs of stress, as in the recent bankruptcies by Stockton, California, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Jefferson County, Alabama, among other places.
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Richmond, 16, and Trent Mays, 17, are scheduled to go on trial Wednesday in Jefferson County juvenile court in Steubenville on charges they attacked a 16-year-old West Virginia girl last August.
On Thursday, the police chief who initially investigated the case, before the Jefferson County prosecutor asked state officials to step in, said he doesn't expect much additional evidence to surface in the case.
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