North Carolina lawmakers are considering a new bill that would require a criminal background check for getting your teaching license.

North Carolina lawmakers are considering adding an extra layer of scrutiny for teachers. A new bill would require a criminal background check as part of getting a teaching license.

Adult shelter applicants must disclose their criminal histories and agree to a Criminal Offender Record Information, or CORI, check.

News Politics Healey reduces shelter capacity to 5,800 families, releases new background check rules Nancy Lane/Boston Herald ...

Governor Maura Healey’s new policy requiring additional criminal background checks of all adults in the state’s family shelter system has one striking catch: It would not evict anyone who has ...

The Virginia Department of Social Services expects to clear a backlog of criminal background checks by February 3.

Governor Maura Healey’s administration acknowledged for the first time Thursday that it has not been conducting full criminal background checks on the people staying in the state’s homeless ...

Gov. Maura Healey's administration confirmed it was not conducting criminal background checks for state-run shelter residents.

Politics Healey says she ordered criminal background checks on all shelter residents last spring, but they didn’t happen “We’re going to get to the bottom of why that wasn’t happening ...

An international law enforcement operation has taken down Matrix, an encrypted messaging service used by criminals. This followed a large-scale investigation into the messaging service, which was ...

Former Kansas Commerce official and Peabody resident Jonathan Clayton, who was missing, didn’t undergo a national criminal background check.