In an unprecedented moment of candor, Florida's newly installed prisons chief told a Senate committee that private contractors have provided inadequate medical care to Florida's inmates while crumbling infrastructure and years of staffing cuts have fostered "culture" problems in the massive agency.
More than 5,000 people in the rural Montana city of Glendive have been told not to use municipal water because elevated levels of cancer-causing benzene were found downstream from a weekend crude oil spill into the Yellowstone River.
New York's governor proposals would expand and codify into law policies he laid out in October after a New York City emergency-room doctor who had been treating Ebola was diagnosed with the virus after returning home.
An $18 million LA County program called Housing for Health uses county Department of Health Services money to subsidize rents for the very sick among the county's 39,000 homeless people.
In less than a day's time, Republican Party leaders who are gathered here heard two prospective presidential candidates' versions of an argument that will persist through next year's primaries: whether breaking the party's losing streak when it comes to the White House requires a candidate from outside of Washington or inside, and whether that face needs to be fresh or familiar.
In his State of the State speech, Brian Sandoval called upon the Legislature to pass a new business license fee estimated to raise $430 million during the next two years.
