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  • California Increases Funding to Seize Illegally Held Guns
  • Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation providing $24 million to clear the backlog of weapons known to be in the hands of people who purchased them legally but were then disqualified from owning one. The funds will be used to hire 36 additional special agents.


  • Maryland Becomes 18th State to Repeal Death Penalty
  • With a stroke of a pen, Gov. Martin O'Malley removed the death penalty from state law Thursday -- making Maryland the 18th state in the nation to have abolished capital punishment.


  • Camden Schools Won't Fight State Takeover
  • The Camden Board of Education voted to endorse a state takeover of the school district, saying it was in the "best interest of the children."




  • Abortion Heightens Medicaid Standoff in Arizona
  • Democrats are growing frustrated over Gov. Jan Brewer’s struggle to get her Medicaid-expansion proposal into the Legislature and say efforts to appease reluctant Republican lawmakers with anti-abortion legislation threaten their support.




  • Prisons Get Rated on Yelp
  • The business and restaurant rating site is now being used to rate an unconventional entity -- prisons. Inmates are reporting about the quality of the food, the friendliness of deputies, and more.

  • Florida Pension Reform Bill Fails
  • A pension reform bill that would have moved new state workers and teachers into a 401K plan and blocked them from enrolling in the state pension system, failed in the Florida senate. Several Republicans joined the Democratic minority to defeat the measure 22-18.
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