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Candice Norwood

Web Producer/Writer

Candice is a St. Louis, Mo., native who received her bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and her master's from American University in Washington, D.C. Before joining Governing, she worked as a web producer for Politico, a politics fellow with The Atlantic, and a weekend White House freelancer for Bloomberg. She has covered criminal justice, education and national politics.

Governor Gina Raimondo set a goal in 2015 to reduce the number of accidental drug overdose deaths by one third in three years, but since then a potent and sometimes lethal opioid has emerged, making it impossible for the state to reach the objective.
Protesters are asking for the Hoover Police Department to release video from the police body cameras and mall surveillance cameras for public review.
Some companies are selling dividing walls or curtains to create new bedrooms. Others are filling rooms with bunk beds. And some -- armed with Silicon Valley backing and a brand of "co-living" -- are offering a variety of sleeping situations and services that make it easier to find roommates and then live with them.
State and federal investigators are trying to find out who hung seven nooses in trees outside the Mississippi Capitol early Monday, a day before a U.S. Senate runoff that has focused attention on the state’s history of racist violence.
Gov.-Elect Gavin Newsom has condemned the use of tear gas by U.S. agents on migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego over the weekend.
The state attorneys general filed a friend of the court brief in support of Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh’s request on Nov. 13 for a court to name Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to the interim role.
"Tennessee's racist," she said in the video. "Period. Period. Like, Tennessee is racist."
A coalition of bail bond industry groups took a major step Tuesday toward blocking California's historic overhaul of the bail system, submitting more than enough signatures required for a statewide referendum on the law in 2020.
No governor in California history has given more former offenders a chance at redemption through a pardon or commuted sentence than Gov. Jerry Brown.
Nearly 8,000 structures in the island's low-lying areas, as well as drinking water and sanitation pipelines, are said to be at risk by an increase in sea level of 1.6 feet.