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The 5-2 ruling says 538 pages of emails, maps and planning documents of a GOP political operative must be allowed into the record in the ongoing redistricting trial — but only if the courtroom is closed.
New Jersery governor signs bill allowing adoptees 18 and older to access their original birth certificates without court intervention.
States consider using Medicaid to pay for college health plan premiums.
Flexibility, public engagement and predictability help attract outside money for infrastructure, experts say.
Workers may see a raise as soon as Sept. 1.
Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, to David Guthartz, the head of New York Ferret’s Rights Advocacy group. The city is considering ending a rule that prevents residents from keeping ferrets as pets.
It will take $850 million to clean up residential neighborhoods and nearby retail strips over the next five years, and about $2 billion total when adding in huge commercial edifices such as the Packard Plant and the Michigan Central Station.
Two months after a state appeals court ruled that Gov. Chris Christie's administration broke the law in the way it pulled New Jersey out of a regional agreement aimed at reducing carbon dioxide pollution, the state plans to submit an official proposal to repeal regulations tied to the program.
Continuing to respond to what officials around the country are calling a “growing epidemic” of heroin abuse in the US, New York City law enforcement officials announced Tuesday that city cops would begin to carry antidote kits for those who overdose on the opiate-based drug.
Demolition crews smashed damaged homes built in Colorado's flood-prone mountain canyons Tuesday as county authorities pushed ahead on master plans encompassing flood, mud and wildfire risks.
The Supreme Court put new limits on the death penalty Tuesday, deciding that states may not use a "rigid rule" that denies leniency to defendants with severe mental disabilities simply because they score 70 or above on an IQ test.
Losing ground elsewhere in the U.S., the tea party emerged from Texas' primary runoffs mightier than ever in the nation's biggest conservative stronghold.
California's governor has received nearly $2 million from donors who fueled Meg Whitman's and Steve Poizner's Republican gubernatorial bids in 2010.
Tim Donnelly takes an unusual tactic in his race for governor.
The president will call for major reductions, with each state given its own greenhouse gas emissions reduction target and the power to decide how to meet it.
The amount New York City spends on each of its students, which is more than any other large public school system in the country.
Joe Schilling, head of the Sustainable Communities Initiative at Virginia Tech's Metropolitan Institute, on Philadelphia's Mantua neighborhood, which held a "funeral" for the last house on Melon Street, before developers razed it on Saturday. A hearse-like dumpster will carry the debris down the block, trailed by a procession of drill teams, bands and local residents.
Sherlita Amler, Westchester County commissioner of health, after someone left five baby raccoons on the doorstep of the health department in White Plains, N.Y. Amler wants the person who cared for the animals -- dropped off in a cage with bottles of milk, blankets and toys -- to come into the office immediately to be assessed for the possibility of rabies.
Eleven states are extending a provision of the federal health law to avoid punishing former foster kids for pursuing jobs or schools in other states.
Josh Umbehr is running for Kansas lieutenant governor, campaigning with his father, Keen Umbehr, the Libertarian gubernatorial candidate.
The city got more aggressive about delinquent property tax collection.
Major public intervention in the city’s poorest area has created a new generation of housing stock that residents believe is overly restricted to lower-income people.
Instead of reporting to district offices every day, they can just stay home.
As the 2014 summer vacation season opens, state parks have had to get creative about ways to raise money because budget officers are being chintzier with tax revenue.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) on Friday vetoed a bill passed unanimously by the General Assembly that would have barred him from accepting donations from anyone seeking grants from an economic-development fund he controls.
Child safety and the state's role in ensuring it is the topic of a special legislative session that begins at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Call them the fortunate ones: Nearly 4,000 California companies, farms and others are allowed to use free water with little oversight when the state is so bone dry that deliveries to nearly everyone else have been severely slashed.
The aid is part of $2.5 billion the federal government plans to distribute to the state and cities damaged during the punishing storm in the third and final round of a flexible grant program.
The ruling this month, by the Internal Revenue Service, blocks any wholesale move by employers to dump employees into the exchanges.
Though the tea party has sputtered this year in elections around the country, Texas' conservative insurgents are the front-runners in Republican primary runoffs for major statewide offices and positioned to bolster their ranks in the Legislature.
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