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Regrouping after federal judges told the state it cannot count empty medical beds as reductions in prison crowding, Gov. Jerry Brown is asking for more time to meet the court's looming deadlines.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided against hearing several closely watched California legal challenges, in each instance leaving intact a ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Among the cases the justices let go were:
More than half the states have “contraceptive equity” laws on the books that require most employers whose health insurance covers prescription drugs to also cover FDA-approved contraceptives as part of that package.
Amount the U.S. Postal Service has lost shipping food and other consumer items to remote villages in Alaska for the last three decades.
Timothy Ray Murray, an Oklahoma man who was running in the Republican primary against U.S. Rep. Frank Lucas. Murray alleged that the 10-term congressman had been "executed along with others on a white stage in southern Ukraine on or about Jan. 11, 2011." Murray lost the primary.
The ruling creates a new class of "partial public employees" who can choose not to pay membership dues to unions representing them, laying the groundwork for overruling other precedents.
A new rule about who can give governments financial advice went into effect, but how to apply it is far from resolved.
Cities across the nation have teamed up with professional and minor league soccer teams to host public viewing parties to cheer on the United States.
The state pulls the plug on 'Alaska State Troopers' TV show, the first of the wave of Alaska-based reality programs.
The state halts expanded tax credits for renovating old buildings. Gov. Scott Walker says he's concerned about the impact on tax revenues and budget.
Mayor Eric Garcetti took a low-risk approach in his first year in office.
On July 1, many U.S. states will cut residents' taxes.
Experts say American medical care needs to be ready for global warming.
Sixteen years ago, D.C. activists gathered signatures to let voters decide if the District should be among the first in the nation to legalize medical marijuana.
Randy Oliver has a pressing question as legal marijuana sales are about to begin in Washington: Where’s all the weed?
The decades-long effort to build a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge succeeded Friday as the transportation district's Board of Directors OKd funding for nets that will be installed about three years from now.
Governor Deval Patrick today signed into law a bill raising the minimum wage from $8 to $11 per hour by 2017, setting Massachusetts on course to have the highest minimum wage of any state in the country.
California Governor Jerry Brown on Saturday signed into law a bill that clears away possible state-level obstacles to alternative currencies such as bitcoin.
Nominee Susan Wismer announced Wednesday her pick of former state lawmaker Susy Blake of Sioux Falls as her running mate.
From the window of her tin-roofed trailer, Judy Vargas can glimpse a miraculous world. It is as close as the dust kicked up by the trucks barreling by but seems as distant as Mars.
Albuquerque, Denver, Louisville, Nashville, Philadelphia, and San Jose named as finalists in the City Accelerator, a $3 million dollar program that support urban innovation to benefit low-income residents
3-year, $3 million collaboration to kickstart urban innovation crowdsources reviews of city pitches in selecting which ones will enter the City Accelerator
The City of San Jose, a finalist in the inaugural round of the City Accelerator, is focuses on serving the homeless in Silicon Valley.
Cities and states promote cycling to appeal to millennials.
The City of Albuquerque, a finalist in the inaugural round of the City Accelerator, is focused on creating entrepreneurial opportunities for low-income residents.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
The state supreme court won't look into the authority of Philadelphia's School Reform Commission's to change work rules for teachers, including disregarding seniority in assignments and layoffs.
San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón backs the measure, though most other prosecutors oppose it.
Echoing the format of reality TV shows, the city hopes to address not just safety hazards but the mental illnesses that drive people to hoard.
Sam Hedenberg, a teacher in Fairfax County, Va., where only 64 percent of high school students showed up last Monday. Many East Coast schools are in session well into the summer as a result of snow days this winter.
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