MIAMI (CBSMiami) – It's the way all commission meetings have started in Miami-Dade for the last eight years. "Would everyone stand for a moment of silence," the commission chairperson announces. Now ...

Plenty of local governments open their meetings with a quick, generic prayer from a member of the clergy. But is it different when the lawmakers themselves say "Let us pray" and then supplicate God to ...

The Hamilton County Commission is serene about its custom of offering a prayer to God before meetings. Its convictions in the matter, despite threats from two indignant residents who sued in U.S.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — A lawsuit on behalf of two Hamilton County residents seeks to stop the County Commission from praying at its meetings. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reported the lawsuit ...

ST. LOUIS • An anonymous resident of Franklin County has filed a federal civil suit to block the County Commission from sponsoring sectarian prayers during meetings. The ACLU sued the county and the ...

The Miami-Dade County Commission is poised next month to reinstate nondenominational prayers to kick off their meetings, after a group of commissioners approved the policy shift last week. But the ...

The Georgetown-Quitman County Commission is planning a special prayer service Tuesday, Aug. 26, at 6:30 p.m. EDT. The meeting will be held in the commission board room. According to a press release ...

The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals is located in the Potter Stewart U.S. Courthouse in Cincinnati, OH. A federal appeals court says the Jackson County Commission regularly violated the US Constitution ...