Detroit’s financial oversight commission voted unanimously Monday to return full financial control to the city’s mayor and city council, three years after the Motor City completed the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Detroit earned its way out of state oversight by delivering three consecutive years of balanced budgets. City leaders expect to end fiscal year 2018 with a $36 million operating surplus. That’s quite a turnaround for Detroit, which had $12 billion in debt when Republican Gov.

A report issued Wednesday by a Missouri legislative committee has sparked calls for Gov. Eric Greitens, a Republican, to resign amid a monthslong sex scandal that could lead to his impeachment. The report includes testimony from the woman Greitens admitted having an affair with before he became governor. He called the relationship consensual, but the woman claimed Greitens abused and intimidated her during their encounters.

A grand jury on Thursday indicted Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens, a Republican, on a felony invasion of privacy charge for allegedly blackmailing his former mistress with nude photographs. Greitens won election in 2016 and admitted to the affair last month, but he denies accusations he threatened the woman to stay silent using photographs he took without her consent. The affair took place in March 2015 before Greitens became governor. “As I have said before, I made a personal mistake before I was governor.

In at least four California cities, a new opportunity awaits low-income citizens convicted of certain drug crimes: a leg up on starting their very own marijuana business.

California has joined seven other states and the District of Columbia in legalizing marijuana for recreational use, and the state began allowing sales on New Year’s Day. In some spots, hundreds of customers lined up hours before shops opened.

Republican Gov. Eric Greitens of Missouri on Wednesday confessed to having an extramarital affair before he took office but denied accusations of blackmailing his mistress. KMOV-TV in St. Louis reported Greitens admitted to the affair after a monthslong investigation into the governor’s past conduct. KMOV obtained recordings of the woman, who remains anonymous, claiming Greitens tried to blackmail her into keeping their March 2015 affair quiet.

Texas has lost another round in its battle to enforce one of the strictest voter ID laws in the country. Federal District Court Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos ruled Wednesday that the new law adopted earlier this year doesn’t solve the discrimination problems created by the bill adopted in 2011. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the 2011 law disproportionately burdened minority voters by requiring one of seven forms of identification to cast a ballot in an election. Minority voters are less likely to have the IDs, the court ruled.

California on Monday became the first state to sue the Trump administration over its sanctuary city policy. State Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed the legal challenge over the U.S. Justice Department’s threat to withhold grant money from jurisdictions that don’t comply with its new crackdown on illegal immigrants. “We abide by federal law. We respect the Constitution,” Becerra said at a news conference in San Francisco.