Suburbanites in Texas may soon have new ways to get around. The state legislature recently approved a bill that will allow suburban counties to create their own mass transit authorities.

States are using graphic advertising to discourage people from smoking.

Boasting that he had a doctorate didn't help Omar Bradley in his bid for a third term as mayor of Compton, California. But then, he wasn't exactly an Ivy League graduate anyway.

Bellying up to the bar in Florida just got a little more interesting. For more than three decades, patrons of watering holes and liquor stores across the state weren't allowed to indulge their taste for any beer that wasn't served in an 8, 12, 16 or 32-ounce container.

Just when you thought good ol' boys were all but dead in the modern state legislature, South Carolina lawmakers have served up a scandal that sounds straight out of 1951, not 2001.