Cash-hungry states have long tried to poach business from one another. Now many are stepping up their efforts to lure gamblers from their neighbors to their growing ranks of slot machines, leaving states like Delaware, which embraced gambling early, struggling to keep up in what has become a feverish one-armed-bandit arms race.
A tough new Massachusetts crime bill that imposes a "three strikes" rule on violent repeat offenders was signed into law on Thursday by Democratic Governor Deval Patrick.
The U.S. government's only facility for handling, processing and storing weapons-grade uranium has been temporarily shut after three anti-nuclear activists, including an 82-year-old nun, breached four security fences, government officials said on Thursday.
Maine moved to strip about 30,000 low-income Medicaid patients from the state-run health program Wednesday, formally challenging federal officials on a key provision of the health law.
