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Caroline Cournoyer

Senior Web Editor

Caroline Cournoyer -- Senior Web Editor. Caroline covered federal policy and politics for CongressNow, the former legislative wire service for Roll Call, has written for Education Week's Teacher Magazine, and learned the ins and outs of state and local government while working as an assistant editor at WTOP Radio.

New York health officials are on high alert following the Zika outbreak in Florida.
Prosecutors in Virginia won a rare conviction of a white former police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black teen suspected of shoplifting.
A longtime Opa-locka manager who oversaw the city's troubled public works department was charged Thursday in the first federal corruption case brought by prosecutors after a three-year FBI investigation into alleged bribery schemes at the highest levels of government.
Backers of ColoradoCare — the state ballot initiative that would establish universal health care in Colorado — think they have the perfect job for former presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders.
Stockton Mayor Anthony Silva was booked into jail Thursday on charges stemming from a strip poker game prosecutors said he held with teen counselors at his Mayor's Youth Camp last summer.
Humana is the latest health insurer to significantly pull back its participation selling subsidized individual coverage under the Affordable Care Act, announcing plans to scale back next year to “no more than 156 counties” across 11 states.
States are increasingly creating specialized ombudsman offices to cater to citizens' complaints.
Alabama’s lawsuit against the U.S. government concerning the possible relocation of Syrian refugees to Alabama was dismissed July 29 in federal court.
Fed up with what he says is the governor's failure to properly fund his overwhelmed office, the state's lead public defender ordered Gov. Jay Nixon this week to represent a poor person in Cole County this month.
In a 148-page decision, Delaware's Supreme Court has invalidated the state's death penalty law.