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Latest information shows D.C. is making progress, but officials say infection rates are still "epidemic."
Vaccination prices have risen significantly over the past 30 years, creating dilemmas for physicians and parents and straining public health budgets.
James R. Metts, South Carolina’s longest-serving sheriff, is accused of accepting money from a restaurant mogul to free workers arrested and sent to the jail he controlled.
Currently Pennsylvania is the only state that doesn't permit local enforcement officers to use radar guns -- but the Legislature is considering proposals that could change that.
Why one small town will pay up to $12,000 for new residents.
States are hitting the brakes on road projects as federal fund goes broke.
California struggles to manage water rights in the drought, in part because the state's residents and businesses tend to just ignore new rules and regulations.
Observers say this represents a "uniquely New Hampshire approach" to health care expansion.
Linda Smith Lowe, advocate for Families First, a non-profit family service agency in Georgia, on a new state law (that officials have delayed enforcement of) to drug test welfare recipients.
Andrew Saunders, founding member of New York dance troupe WAFFLE NYC, on the New York Police Department's recent crackdown on subway break dancers for "reckless endangerment." Some have suggested that the crackdown is part of Police Commissioner William Bratton's use of the "broken window theory" that reducing minor crimes will reduce overall crime rates.
Total price for the town of Swett, S.D., which was listed for sale two weeks ago by Lance Benson, who currently owns all of the property in the 6.16-acre village and is one of its two residents.
Three busloads of immigrant children — many who were fled gang violence in Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras — met a human blockade on Tuesday afternoon in California. Many were accompanied by parents.
Fifty years after President Johnson declared war on poverty, we're facing the same battles.
As a new state law to drug-test welfare recipients went into effect Tuesday, state officials said they will delay enforcing it, even as opponents were girding to sue.
The county clerk staring down Colorado's attorney general in a dispute over same-sex marriage licenses draws from a lifetime of experiences as she carries out what she calls a duty to fulfill a fundamental right.
A jury Tuesday found six members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department guilty of attempting to impede a federal civil rights inquiry into the county jails, providing prosecutors with a decisive victory as they continue to investigate higher-level officials tied to the scandal.
The San Francisco Bay Area city of Berkeley will vote in November whether to impose a tax on soda.
The District’s traditional public school system is sending principals out to knock on doors in a campaign to sell itself to city families, an aggressive move to boost enrollment and maintain market share after years of ceding ground to charter schools.
A Nevada-based startup that plans on selling medical and recreational marijuana products named former New Mexico governor and U.S. Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson as its CEO and president, the company announced Tuesday.
Credit markets view the move as a positive for the state but negative for municipalities.
A record number of Americans live in high-poverty areas -- but they aren't necessarily poor themselves. View a map and estimates for each state.
An independent hearing officer rules the city violated labor law in rolling back pension benefits for new employees.
Washington state goes in circles over drone regulations.
State caps and a $1 billion malpractice insurance fund discourage claims even in the face of apparent wrongdoing.
Further delays and low participation among insurers are likely to dampen enrollment in a part of the Affordable Care Act that's long been overshadowed: the Small Business Health Options Program.
States are seeing new insurers, attracted by the exchanges, offering their policies.
When Los Angeles officials begin an ambitious effort to comb the city and check which buildings might be at risk in a major earthquake, they will also examine how efficiently the structures use water and electricity, Mayor Eric Garcetti said Monday.
Gov. Corbett refused late Monday to sign a $29.1 billion budget that the Republican-controlled legislature scrambled to deliver to him just 90 minutes before the midnight deadline.
Democrats in the Legislature don’t have enough votes to override Christie's vetoes.
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