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Some of the most interesting races this summer are happening in the state legislature. Here are 10 you should know about.
The city parking meters could bring in an extra $6 million a year in revenue. But Detroit switched to lower-batteries, so the meters don't work reliably.
A study shows that many teachers are not credentialed in the subjects they're hired to teach.
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The Texas governor has formed RickPAC, a federal campaign fund.
The LA Supervisors have rejected a plan for a civilian oversight panel of the scandal-ridden Sheriff's Department.
A city hospital created its own Medicaid program for residents.
Voters narrowly approved a ballot measure that makes farming a constitutional right -- an idea that opponents say will make future agriculture regulations like GMO bans harder to enact and enforce.
Voters rejected a sales tax increase Tuesday that would have provided billions of dollars for road and bridge repairs.
The state would have been the fifth to put part of their lottery proceeds toward veterans programs.
A Missouri man convicted in the rape and murder of a 24-year-old woman was executed at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a stay and Gov. Jay Nixon rejected his plea for clemency, according to statements.
A federal agency has asked the Pence administration to resubmit its proposal for an alternative Medicaid expansion because Indiana's initial application didn't include input from a band of Potawatomi Indians.
Congress left towns and counties on the Texas-Mexico border hanging last week when it adjourned without sending a supplemental budget measure to the president.
More than six in 10 voters approved a constitutional amendment pertaining to the right to bear arms and own ammunition and gun-related accessories.
Because of inadequate public school capacity, the de Blasio administration has been urging religious schools and community organizations to consider hosting the added programs.
Add Gov. Martin O'Malley's name to the list of prominent Democrats who want Washington's National Football League team to change its name.
When poor Ohioans are illegally jailed for failing to pay court debts, it's often difficult for them to do anything about it, according to activists and legal experts.
Minnesota's IT renovation saved the state $27.4 million.
A recent study blasted New Jersey officials for doing a poor job of overseeing state contractors handling recovery funds. Other states have had similar problems overseeing contractors.
City or tropics? The president ponders where to put his library once his term is over.
Full results and data for Governing's report on pedestrian safety in poorer neighborhoods
A new study indicates that emergency department closures raise death rates at nearby hospitals.
Police apparently found FitzGerald, who had only a learner's permit, in a car with a woman at 4:30 a.m. in 2012.
A Broward circuit judge Monday threw out Florida’s gay-marriage ban, paving the way for a Lake Worth lesbian to dissolve her Vermont civil union.
Robert Tufts, the 5-year-old mayor of Dorset, Minn., who lost his bid for a third consecutive term earlier this week. Dorset, which has no formal city government and a population ranging from nine to 28, elects a figurehead mayor during its annual Taste of Dorset festival.
Amount in unpaid parking and speeding tickets owed by former Washington, D.C., Mayor and current City Council member Marion Barry.
It took a serendipitous slug of toxins and the loss of drinking water for a half-million residents to bring home what scientists and government officials in this part of the country have been saying for years: Lake Erie is in trouble, and getting worse by the year.
Florida legislators indicated Monday that they will meet in special session this week to make the court-ordered repairs to two congressional districts in North and Central Florida but they will not accept holding special elections this year to put them in place.
Fourteen states in 2012 enacted policies either mandating or strongly recommending that schools hold back students who could not read properly by third grade.
The unusual arrangement, tried in two other states, stems from a legal dispute over a Kansas law requiring voters to prove citizenship when registering.
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