In 2010, Florida passed a tougher law regulating pain-management clinics. A new study indicates the law resulted in "modest decreases" in the use of drugs like Vicodin and oxycodone.
From car pools to practices, a growing number of families using ride-booking services to schlep kids to and from school, after-school activities and other destinations.
Citing the high costs of specialty drugs as well as pent-up demand among the newly insured, the state's largest insurer -- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan -- received permission to raise its premium rates 11.4% for individual policies in 2016. And its Blue Care Network health maintenance organization will raise individual rates 9.7%. Both entities combined cover 310,000 people.
The Environmental Protection Agency and a slate of state and local players have worried for decades about the poisonous waste and polluted water bequeathed to Cement Creek by the rich mining history.
Gov. Bruce Rauner approved a measure requiring families seeking a religious exemption to complete a certificate explaining their objection on religious grounds before kindergarten, 6th and 9th grades. That certificate also must include the signature of a doctor.
The U.S. Department of Transportation began requiring in May 2014 that railroads inform states of large shipments of crude oil after a series of derailments with spills, fires, explosions and evacuations. But some railroads said the reports should be exempt from disclosure under state open records laws.
The Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, S.C., is the only other military base department officials are considering as they prepare to send Congress a detailed proposal to shutter the detention camp.
