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Los Angeles Unified school police officials said Tuesday that the department will relinquish some of the military weaponry it acquired through a federal program that furnishes local law enforcement with surplus equipment. The move comes as education and civil rights groups have called on the U.S. Department of Defense to halt the practice for schools.
Maryland officials want to limit access to the state’s new health insurance Web site when it launches in November so that any glitches can be worked out and the system won’t be overwhelmed with requests.
A government watchdog group on Tuesday said health plans across the country have not followed rules that are intended to prevent federal subsidies from being used for abortions, fueling a new GOP attack against ObamaCare just weeks ahead of the midterms.
Many states are watching to see how much tax revenue legalized marijuana brings in – so far in Colorado, sales have been far under projections.
The politician has long been a lightning rod for Democrats. This fall, they think they have a chance to beat him.
When we face reality, we take the first step to fixing a problem.
A first-of-its-kind report finds that the most effective way to reduce public workers' health expenses isn't popular cost-cutting moves like wellness programs, which rarely produce significant savings.
As lawmakers return, legislation in both chambers would allow Philadelphia to enact a $2-a-pack cigarette tax to help fix the school district's $81 million deficit.
The city will slap large signs — in multiple languages, with red letters and a drawing of a destroyed building — on apartment complexes that violate San Francisco's seismic safety laws.
New laws help residents fight to protect honeybees, which have been hurt by environmental problems and disease.
Ballot measures in five states propose changes to early voting, voter registration and citizen-led initiatives.
In a disavowal of the hard line Californians once took against illegal immigration, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Monday repealing unenforceable provisions of Proposition 187.
A group of Duke University scientists often accused of anti-fracking bias have published their most definitive research to date linking shale gas exploration with methane gas contamination of drinking water.
The U.S. Department of Labor on Monday awarded $10.2 million to nearly two dozen states to beef up enforcement of a labor scheme that companies employ to evade their tax obligations.
As many as half a million people who signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act this year may lose coverage or need to pay more because they haven't submitted proper documentation, the Obama administration warned Monday.
Ending a career in political office that spanned a dozen years, state Sen. Roderick D. Wright on Monday bowed to pressure from fellow Democrats and said he would resign his seat Sept. 22.
It seemed a little odd when Arnold Schwarzenegger decided his official painting as governor of California would feature his wife on a lapel pin. And then he tried to get rid of her.
The face of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. is increasingly black or Latino, poor, often rural—and Southern.
Its chances are all but impossible, but supporters of full statehood for the District of Columbia argue there's never been a better time to grant it.
School districts from California to Georgia and Maryland have had to add bilingual programs and social services to help new immigrants. Nowhere is the impact of the recent surge of immigration felt more strongly than in Texas.
Several fires around the state force hundreds of residents to flee their communities.
Number of the 10 states that have reduced their carbon emissions by at least 30 percent since 2005 that also saw a decline in economic activity.
Otero County, N.M., Assessor Donald Yee, referring to the county administration building that's suffered from a putrid stink since at least 2008. The smell is so bad that the commissioner proposed relocating staff that work in the building's basement. The cause of the stench is unclear.
Sign that's part of a guerrilla art installation campaign called "The Department of Well Being," created by English artist Killy Kilford for New York City. The project will now move to Newark, N.J.
Democratic state Sen. Roderick D. Wright, convicted earlier this year on felony perjury and voting fraud charges, was sentenced Friday to 90 days in county jail and barred for life from holding public office.
Starting Monday, September 15,thousands of children from low-income families who are on the autism spectrum will be eligible for behavioral therapy under Medi-Cal, the state’s health plan for the poor.
The uninsured rate for kids under age 18 hasn’t budged under the health law, according to a new study, even though they’re subject to the law’s requirement to have insurance just as their parents and older siblings are. Many of those children are likely eligible for coverage under Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program.
For the first time in history, the Washington Supreme Court has held the Legislature in contempt for failing to obey a court order.
A federal appeals panel reinstated Wisconsin's voter ID law Friday, acting with unusual speed eight weeks before the Nov. 4 election and just hours after hearing arguments on the subject.
Former Sen. Russell Pearce, who has recently served as the Arizona Republican Party's first vice chair, resigned his post late Sunday in the wake of criticism from powerful GOP candidates about contraception.
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