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California lawmakers have passed education and drug bills, and are working to eliminate the anti-immigrant Prop. 187.
Wyllie is running in a year when polls show voters are starved for an alternative to Republican Gov. Rick Scott and Charlie Crist, the likely Democratic nominee.
Suspended Miami Lakes Mayor Michael Pizzi beat federal bribery charges a week ago. Now he's demanding Rick Scott put him back in office.
Legislation would amount to a loss of $39 million in funds for the state's lottery-funded programs.
Republican governor candidate Bruce Rauner loses another round in his legal fight to get a term limit referendum on the November ballot.
Health care providers in Illinois would receive more money from Medicaid for providing vasectomies to men and birth control to women under proposed policy changes by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
L.A. unions and allies put slips on parked cars, arguing that soured deals with Wall Street banks are to blame for the rising cost of parking tickets citywide.
Number of protesters arrested (out of 163) in Ferguson since a police officer's fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown who are actually from Ferguson, Mo.
Percent of New York City "stop-and-frisk" stops in which police recovered a gun during the 12 years Mayor Michael Bloomberg was in office.
As Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the National Guard to begin withdrawing from this St. Louis suburb Thursday, the persistent protests over the police killing of Michael Brown appeared smaller and much more subdued for the second night in a row.
While the furor over Brown’s death exposed historic racial divisions in Ferguson, it once again drew attention to the long-standing and unusual rift between the Democratic governor and potential 2016 presidential candidate and one of the party’s most loyal constituencies—African Americans.
In preparation for a late start to the school year next week in Ferguson, Mo., nearly 2,200 Ferguson-Florissant School District teachers, bus drivers and other staff members underwent crisis training on Thursday.
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced on Thursday that states could delay the use of test results in teacher-performance ratings by another year, an acknowledgment, in effect, of the enormous pressures mounting on the nation’s teachers because of new academic standards and more rigorous standardized testing.
Dozens of sex offenders who have satisfied their sentences in New York State are being held in prison beyond their release dates because of a new interpretation of a state law that governs where they can live.
In the first decision on same-sex marriage with statewide impact, a federal judge ruled Thursday that Florida's gay-marriage ban is unconstitutional, ordering the state to allow the marriage of same-sex couples and to recognize marriages performed elsewhere.
Amin Ghaziani, author of There Goes the Gayborhood?, a book about the past and future of gay communities in urban America.
Some say Ferguson's increasing reliance on court fines to fund its municipal operations may have contributed to its residents' distrust in law enforcement and government.
In what resembled a presidential campaign speech, the recently indicted Texas governor called for increased federal controls against illegal immigration before Congress considers immigration reform.
Former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, taking the stand last week against federal corruption charges.
Nick Whitmoyer, one of the business partners behind Washington, D.C.'s annual “Cops and Robbers Run” where participants dress up as either police or criminals. Organizers canceled the event after complaints arose about insensitivity given the shooting in Ferguson, Mo.
Settlement approved by the L.A. City Council for the family of an unarmed National Guard veteran who was fatally shot by police 21 times. It's the city's largest payout in a fatal police shooting case in at least a decade.
Number of birds killed annually by a solar installation in California. The birds ignite in mid-air because of the plant’s hyper-concentrated solar rays.
The King County involuntary-commitment coordinator, JoEllen Watson, resigned this month after a look into the release of hundreds of dangerously mentally ill patients. Meanwhile, the county is scrambling to comply with a state Supreme Court order to stop detaining patients in emergency rooms.
Awkward tensions emerge as Democrats remain divided over congressional redistricting plan, while Republicans claim they are doing more for black voters.
Glitches threaten Obamacare coverage for some immigrants, even when they have the proper documentation.
A dozen states have changed laws to help startups raise more money.
More than 100 faith leaders and prison reform advocates rallied Wednesday outside the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility to urge the state to fix a system they say lands nearly 4,000 parolees in prison each year because of "technical violations," costing taxpayers $140 million.
Citing New Jersey's "chronically poor performance" of efficiently reviewing food stamp applications, the Obama administration has threatened to withhold federal funding unless the state makes dramatic improvements by March.
Texas’ only radioactive waste site has permission to dramatically expand its capacity, take in new types of waste and reduce its financial liability should its owner suddenly close up shop.
Mayor Bill de Blasio gathered with religious leaders on Wednesday in a renewed attempt to ease tensions surrounding the death of a black Staten Island man in police custody, as he strives to show leadership on a controversy that has aggravated racial divisions ahead of a protest march this weekend.
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