Bruce Rauner took over as Illinois governor Monday and asked for shared sacrifice to help him restore a state he described as in decline, beset by financial, moral and ethical crises.
One person died and dozens more were taken to hospitals after smoke filled a subway tunnel and a major Metro station in Washington, D.C., on Monday afternoon and forced evacuations, officials said.
Rural hospitals have long struggled financially. But threats to their survival have intensified in recent years _ falling patient volumes, aging populations, and payment cuts by government programs and commercial insurers.
With just days left before he leaves office, Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn granted 232 clemency requests Friday -- including his first-ever pardon based on innocence.
Ohio will switch its lethal injection protocol, adding thiopental sodium, a drug used previously, and dropping the two-drug regimen of midazolam and hydromorphone that caused problems in the last execution a year ago.
