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Law enforcement and transportation officials in Kansas had already reported heat buckles on roads before a National Weather Service excessive heat warning took effect on Wednesday.
The higher age takes effect immediately -- Gov. Mike DeWine on Thursday vetoed a provision that would have phased it in for anyone who turns 18 years old before Oct. 1.
The new requirement will require students to take courses aimed at helping them to identify the signs and symptoms of mental illness.
It was a day that tested the patience and endurance of a hurricane-savvy community accustomed to much worse than a broken water pipe.
The Berkeley city council voted on Tuesday night to update it's municipal code with gender-neutral language
New research released this week shows that even pension plans with big unfunded liabilities are likely to survive in the long term.
In a unanimous decision, the high court said the Missouri Coalition For The Environment did not have legal standing to pursue the state Legislature’s rewrite of the Missouri Clean Water Commission.
The laws expand the list of crimes that bar someone from owning a gun in New Jersey, attempt to curtail gun trafficking from other states, and aim to prevent suicides.
New campaign finance reports filed Monday show the Democratic governor raised slightly more than $300,000 between April and June. That’s far below the seven-figure hauls his predecessors.
States are considering whether to provide gender reassignment services, such as hormone treatments and surgery, under their Medicaid programs.
California will spend $340 million paying off doctors' debts using Proposition 56 tobacco tax revenue.
The tech giant says it has tracked more than 700 cyberattacks by foreign adversaries against U.S. political organizations so far this election cycle.
In what appears to be the largest protest in this U.S. territory in recent memory, protesters convened by Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny and other well-known artists began gathering en masse under a scorching sun late in the afternoon.
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In just three years, more than a dozen states have passed resolutions declaring pornography a public health crisis. The research is more complicated.
Connecticut, New Jersey, New York and a local government coalition allege that a new IRS rule unlawfully puts an end to their tax reform workarounds.
When Los Angeles police officials requested $3.125 million in federal funds in 2017 to hire 25 officers, they said their focus would be on "building trust and respect" through community policing.
A New York federal judge has issued an order definitively blocking the Trump administration from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census in any form, despite the administration's insistence it has abandoned plans to add a question on the census.
Minneapolis Suburb Restores Pledge of Allegiance to City Council Meetings After Trump Joins Backlash
A Minneapolis suburb’s city council voted unanimously Monday night to reverse its decision to nix the Pledge of Allegiance from its meetings after it was met with outrage — including from President Trump.
Minnesota lawmakers and top government officials took a rare bipartisan victory lap Monday to usher in what they called the nation's strongest set of protections against wage theft, which has become a multimillion dollar problem around the state.
The decision to not file civil rights charges against Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo in connection with Eric Garner's death on July 17, 2014 has elected officials and organizations criticizing the Department of Justice's ability to do its job and bring justice.
The man who challenged the “pay to stay” law covering adult prisoners is no longer facing a bill for the four years he spent in prison on a negligent homicide conviction, his lawyers said.
Eighty-five federal jobs will move to Colorado as part of a Bureau of Land Management headquarters relocation, the agency told lawmakers Tuesday.
A second gubernatorial candidate in Mississippi has stated he will not be alone with a woman who is not his wife, arguing that “appearances are important.”
In the midst of a nationwide opioid addiction crisis, New Jersey will soon require a warning label on all opioid prescriptions under a law Gov. Phil Murphy signed Monday.
Panelists at the Netroots Nation conference this weekend raised concerns about finding enough candidates and donors for state legislative elections.
Gov. Matt Bevin said Thursday he supports proposed legislation that would prohibit the creation of "sanctuary cities" and limit local governments' authority to enact policies prohibiting local police from cooperating with immigration officials or asking people about their immigration status.
Effective immediately, family planning clinics that are funded by taxpayers must stop referring women for abortions, the Trump administration said Monday.
County officials and sheriffs from around the U.S. are ramping up an effort to press for changes to a federal policy that strips Medicaid coverage and other federal health care benefits from people who are in jail but who have not been convicted of crimes.
'What's the Big Secret?' More States Are Hiding 911 Recordings From Families, Lawyers and the Public
Troy Phillips was repairing a propane filling station on Cape Cod one afternoon last October when his mother called, her voice frantic.
A Colorado state email account that was created to report suspected child abuse and neglect went unchecked for over four years, and five possible cases that were undiscovered until May are now being investigated, officials said.
Jeffrey Epstein, the New York financier, managed to evade federal prosecution a decade ago in a Florida sex case involving dozens of teenage girls, in part by agreeing to register as a sex offender.
Claire Sarnowski of Lake Oswego, Oregon, met Holocaust survivor Alter Wiener at a school event five years ago when she was 9 years old.
The majority of these kids likely lost their coverage because of late, incomplete or unreturned eligibility forms.
Ryan O'Neill, the officer who fatally shot Eric Logan last month, has resigned from the Police Department.
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Medicaid expansion, education funding and tax breaks are at the heart of the stalemates this year. The delays may hurt some states more than others.
The policy failed another court test, this time in New Hampshire. Despite the rulings, other states are moving forward with work requirements.
The state of Texas alleges that San Antonio had a general policy against complying with federal authorities on immigration laws, a claim the city denies.
Mayors representing cities located on or near the U.S.-Mexico border expect to blow through $30 million Congress allocated in a recent supplemental funding bill for humanitarian costs associated with record-high numbers of migrant families arriving at the border.
Many of these new systems still run on old software that will soon be outdated and more vulnerable to hackers.
With power restored in the heart of Manhattan after Saturday's blackout cut electricity to nearly a quarter-million people, attention Sunday turned to why it happened and what can be done to prevent another outage.
Call it good news and bad news for President Donald Trump's reelection campaign when it comes to leadership of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania.
The Washington State Supreme Court has upheld Seattle's pioneering "democracy vouchers" program, which allows residents to contribute taxpayer money to qualifying political candidates.
In 2018, 42 of 148 agencies required to submit data did not, according to the commission.
When Gov. Laura Kelly's administration said in June it planned to allow thousands of Kansans to remain on welfare without meeting work requirements, Republicans relentlessly attacked the policy.
Though women racked up electoral gains in 2018, they are still underrepresented in politics at all levels.
The evolving technology of 'digital twins' can provide a dynamic, real-time view of the urban environment and the impact of ideas for improving it.
Lawmakers failed to override the Republican governor's decision to cut 40 percent of the university system's state funding.
If the Trump administration follows through on its threat to deport thousands of immigrants living in the country illegally, it will start with migrants who are under removal orders signed by an immigration judge.
President Trump backed down Thursday from his fight to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census, denouncing Democrats and "extremely unfriendly" courts while essentially conceding defeat on a priority issue for his administration and reelection campaign.
The U.S. Department of Energy may have mistakenly shipped “reactive” nuclear material that was incorrectly labeled as low-level radioactive waste into Nevada in dozens of shipments over the past six years.
The Federal Communications Commission voted to preempt part of a San Francisco city law that prevents property owners from denying internet service providers access to existing wiring within multiunit buildings.
With 22 Republicans absent from the state Capitol, the Alaska Legislature on Wednesday failed to garner 45 votes to override Gov. Mike Dunleavy's decision to veto $444 million from the state operating budget.
The battle over thousands of rejected absentee ballots appears to have come to an end.
A new state-funded facility for testing driverless cars and other “smart” vehicles has opened in the latest expansion of Ohio’s Transportation Research Center.
Gov. David Ige on Tuesday vetoed bills that would have imposed the state's corporate income tax on real estate investment trusts and required vacation rental platforms such as Airbnb and Expedia to collect taxes from operators of vacation rentals. Lawmakers estimated that those measures could have eventually brought in an extra $55 million annually in state revenue.
Nike on Thursday reaffirmed its commitment to build its third U.S. manufacturing plant on the west side of metro Phoenix, bringing more than 500 jobs to Goodyear.
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After being a leader in prison population, Missouri is moving away from locking up non-violent offenders to serve long sentences.
Two former Puerto Rico officials, along with the head of an accounting firm and three others, were indicted over allegations of theft, money laundering and wire fraud, escalating federal investigations that have been swirling around the bankrupt U.S. territory.
Debbie Baker thought she qualified for a federal program that helps teachers such as her, as well as nurses, police officers, librarians and others.
Five years after Oregon legalized recreational marijuana, its lawmakers now are trying to rein in production.
Oregon Sen. Brian Boquist can only report to the Capitol if he provides 12 hours' notice, so that officials can arrange for additional state troopers to ensure the safety of employees and the public.
Transit agencies are increasingly partnering with ride-hailing companies to expand transportation options for residents.
A Mississippi state representative and Republican candidate for governor wouldn't let a female reporter accompany him on a trip unless she brought a man along, and he's blaming his wife.
The state is restoring the individual mandate and making an unprecedented effort to help the middle class afford health insurance.
President Donald Trump's Fourth of July celebration has contributed to the depletion of Washington, D.C.'s fund that covers the impact of the federal government's presence on the District's public safety needs, according to Mayor Muriel Bowser.
A federal judge rejected a request by the Trump administration to assign a new legal team to a lawsuit that blocked the U.S. from adding a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
Dayvin Mungia, 7, arrived from El Salvador at South Grade Elementary in South Florida last year with, it seemed, no schooling at all.
Utah officials refuted reports Monday that the Utah Department of Public Safety allowed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to mine Utahns' driver's license photos using facial recognition technology.
A panel of federal judges in New Orleans sharply questioned attorneys defending the Affordable Care Act on Tuesday, increasing the chances that the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may throw out at least part of the 2010 law, often called Obamacare.
The governors of 23 U.S. states are pressuring the Trump administration to back down in a fight with California over gas mileage that has left automakers in a lurch about the fuel economy they will have to comply with going forward.
Less than two hours after beginning a special session ordered by the Democratic governor to consider new gun laws, Republican lawmakers voted Tuesday to adjourn until November without debating any legislation.
In a bid to increase voter accessibility in its first-in-the-West caucuses, the Nevada Democratic Party has unveiled its virtual caucus plan for 2020.
Poorly funded pension plans for state and local public employees saw their finances erode in recent years despite strong investment returns, as the gulf between states with better and worse-off retirement systems has grown wider.
A group that wants to recall Colorado Gov. Jared Polis has been given the green light to start circulating petitions to get a special election on the ballot this fall.
The fate of the Affordable Care Act is again on the line Tuesday, as a federal appeals court in New Orleans takes up a case in which a lower court judge has already ruled the massive health law unconstitutional.
Congressional investigators will now have access to President Trump's New York State income tax returns, under a new law that took effect Monday.
The deadly situations illustrate what experts increasingly see as two common reasons for unnecessary storm deaths: unfamiliar terrain that leads to bad decisions, and people ignoring too-familiar warnings that haven’t panned out in the past.
As California prepares to expand Medicaid coverage to young adults living in the state illegally, the number of undocumented immigrant children in the program is slowly declining, new state data show.
The Congressional Budget Office said in a report released Monday that nearly doubling the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour could cost 1.3 million jobs when fully implemented by 2025, though millions would see higher wages and the number of Americans living in poverty would decrease.
New research suggests legalizing recreational marijuana for U.S. adults in some states may have slightly reduced teens’ odds of using pot.
It’s early morning when the first cruise liner of the day approaches Vancouver’s waterfront.
John Hickenlooper was in the midst of explaining why he’s not worried about his standing in the 2020 presidential polls when something caught his eye outside the driver’s side window of his black SUV as it sped through the rolling countryside of central Iowa.
Last summer, Jennifer Knowles helped her three sons set up a lemonade stand in their Denver neighborhood.
A South Florida principal who refused to say the Holocaust was a "factual, historical event" will be reassigned to a district position immediately, the Palm Beach County School District confirmed Monday.
The decision increases the focus on often-ignored state legislative elections, where the GOP has recently dominated.
Your website visitors are just as diverse as the community you serve and to deny them access to the content on your webpage is the same as not providing them access to your physical location.
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned state driver’s license databases into a facial-recognition gold mine, scanning through millions of Americans’ photos without their knowledge or consent, newly released documents show.
Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against having a citizenship question on the 2020 Census, Acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli said he thinks the Trump administration will find a way to include it.
Gov. Phil Murphy marked the Fourth of July holiday by announcing two new initiatives to assist immigrants settling in New Jersey.
Ankle bracelets are promoted as a humane alternative to jail. But private companies charge defendants hundreds of dollars a month to wear the surveillance devices. If people can’t pay, they may end up behind bars.
Gov. Gina Raimondo's unwillingness so far to sign to sign the proposed new $9.9-billion budget for the year that began on July 1 has landed Rhode Island on Moody's list of states with "weak governance."
Montana Gov. Steve Bullock is staking his name and presidential campaign on battling “dark money” — a commonly used term for secretive political cash meant to influence elections.
Gov. Gavin Newsom is seeking the Trump administration's help in responding to the the 7.1 earthquake in Southern California that on Friday damaged roads, sparked fires and caused numerous injuries.
A small sign taped to a gun case at big-box retailer Walmart in central Santa Fe says the store -- and all Walmarts across New Mexico -- will stop selling firearms later this month after a new state law took effect requiring background checks on sales of nearly all firearms.
While abortion bans in Republican-led states dominated headlines in recent weeks, a handful of other states have expanded abortion access. Maine joined those ranks in June with two new laws ― one requires all insurance and Medicaid to cover the procedure and the other allows physician assistants and nurses with advanced training to perform it.
A Cook County judge ruled this week that Illinois lawmakers violated the state constitution when they voted to freeze their pay every year from 2009 through 2016.
Local governments are offering employees home loans and even housing if they reside among the people they serve.
The move to print the census without the question came after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the Commerce Department had failed to justify its proposal.
Cities and counties pursuing hundreds of similar cases against Insys are not part of the deal, nor are several states that had already agreed to put their lawsuits on hold.
It's not clear Gov. Ducey has the power to block the factory, or the incentives.
New instances of fertility fraud in Indiana — and Texas — can be prosecuted under laws recently signed by the governors of both states. But they are the only states that make fertility fraud specifically illegal. Experts expect other states to follow suit.
The bill restores voting rights to formerly incarcerated individuals automatically once they are released from prison.
The investigation will focus on creating a timeline of the tragedy, reviewing the gunman's employment history and analyzing how to prevent workplace violence in the future.
Hackers have infected computers at a Georgia courts agency, demanding a ransom payment and causing officials to shut down court websites.
Under a new state law, police can't ticket motorists suspected of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol for refusing an officer's request to take a field sobriety test.
The state is drawing inspiration from the gambling industry to get cannabis businesses access to banks.
The attorneys general from California and Massachusetts, Xavier Becerra and Maura Healey, said on Monday they are leading the case, after the EPA denied the states’ petition that it collect more data on asbestos.
Beating back the plant requires coordination between different agencies and levels of government, sustained commitment and funding.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law Friday evening a controversial bill limiting how many felons will be able to vote, undercutting much of the promise of last year’s historic Amendment 4.
It will allow duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes and "cottage clusters" on land previously reserved for single family houses in cities with more than 25,000 residents, as well as smaller cities in the Portland metro area
A new state law beginning July 1, which received unanimous support in the South Dakota House and Senate, is the first step in understanding the depth of the missing and murdered indigenous women issue in the state and begin to address it.
The Official Recall Colorado Governor Jared Polis committee doesn't have the support to start its recall petition campaign July 8, but a rival group plans to move forward.
Las Vegas is one of just 30 U.S. communities chosen to participate in ConnectHomeUSA.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Friday erased $130 million in state support for the public university system on top of a $5 million cut approved by the Legislature for the fiscal year that started Monday.
Fearing more changes from Congress, states and cities are turning less and less to the municipal bond market.
One study, conducted at the University of Michigan Law School, found people who received expungements saw their wages increase by an average of 25 percent within two years.
Colorado’s first-in-the-nation experiment with legalized marijuana has infused the drug into almost every corner of life.
Pritzker said the order establishes a new Affirming and Inclusive Schools Task Force, and directs the state’s public school board to take “comprehensive action” to better support transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming students.
Gov. David Ige has approved a new law that enables family members, co-workers or police to obtain court orders blocking access to firearms for people who show signs they could pose a danger to themselves or others.
The settlement stipulates $200 million, or the bulk of the settlement, must go toward establishing a national center for addiction treatment at the Oklahoma State University Center for Wellness and Recovery in Tulsa.
A loss of accreditation would prevent university students from receiving federal financial aid, as well as affect processes for transfer students.
Medicaid recipients in Arizona can now use Lyft to travel to non-emergency medical appointments, with similar laws on the way in Florida and Texas.
Much remains in flux, including the possibility of land being taken through eminent domain to widen evacuation routes.
That number represents about 2.5 million more voters than were removed from 2013 to 2014 under the National Voting Rights Act, which mandates that states allow increased voting and registration opportunities as well as maintain accurate and current voting rolls.
The New York City Council passed the legislation Wednesday, calling for an immediate response to the global climate crises.
The bill, which the Senate approved in April, updates the state's anti-discrimination law so that the term "race" includes "traits historically associated with race."
The attack hit the city on June 10 after being targeted with malware attack known as "Triple Threat." The ransom request came days later.
Used by countless state lawmakers around the country for the past two centuries, walking out grinds legislative action to a halt.
Conversion therapy, banned in 16 states and Washington, D.C., is an umbrella of interventions — such as hypnosis or physical distress — to change a child's sexual orientation or gender identity.
What prevents cities from adopting electric buses en masse is a mix of technological, financial, and institutional challenges.
Utah may spend up to $50 million over about five years as part of a new deal with Panasonic to expand the use of roadside sensor technology that will be able to exchange data in real time with compatible vehicles traveling on the state’s roads.
President Trump's ending of the safe release program is costing cities and counties. Congress is debating a bill that would at least partially reimburse them.
Red-state voters supported it in the fall, but Republican lawmakers in other states are still hesitant.
The 5-4 ruling leaves no options for challenging maps perceived as unfairly partisan in federal court.
The justices rejected the Trump administration's plan, for now, to add a citizenship question to the 2020 Census. Even if it's not ultimately added, there are concerns about immigrants, minorities and low-income people not being counted.
Alice Rivlin's legacy includes not only the creation of a pathbreaking national institution but also the salvation of the District of Columbia.
One way to boost immunization rates is to narrow school vaccination exemptions, which four states have done this year. Another is to take the decision out of parents’ hands and let their kids choose for themselves
This brings the total number of BSO first responders fired in the aftermath of the worst high school shooting in Florida history to four.
Former Gov. Jerry Brown proposed the project as a first step to start addressing allegations of gender-based harassment in state government that were coming out amid the #MeToo movement.
The issue of parental rights for rapists gained fresh relevance in May, after Alabama lawmakers passed the nation’s strictest ban on abortion.
With a growing number of local jails refusing to honor ICE detainers, routine traffic stops have become “one more tool” for the federal government “to detain and deport people.”
Under the law, Connecticut workers at firms of one or more employee will be eligible for paid time off to care for a newborn, a newly adopted or foster child, a seriously ill relative by blood or marriage or a close associate who is the equivalent of a family member.
The study from the department's inspector general first looked at 888 of the 2,495 bias-related complaints filed against NYPD officers between when the department began tracking such complaints in 2014 and the end of 2018.
State-level data from Arkansas, California, Georgia, Maine, Minnesota, Wisconsin and several Plains states underscores that lawyers cluster in urban areas.
At issue was whether confidentiality, as used in a section of the Freedom of Information Act, means anything intended to be kept secret or only information likely to cause harm if publicized.
Under the ordinance, "no person shall sell or distribute an electronic cigarette to a person in San Francisco" without first passing a Food and Drug Administration review, which no e-cigarette brand has done.
