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Surrounded by developmentally disabled children in wheelchairs, Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday announced his veto of a tax cut bill that he maintains would gut funding for them and other vulnerable Missourians in order to give generous breaks to the richest people in the state.
The Prince George's County Police Department says it will take to Twitter as the Vice Unit conducts a prostitution sting next week.
According to the latest Labor Department data, local governments are continuing to add jobs while state government payrolls remain flat.
Seattle minimum-wage workers would be making $18 an hour in a decade — double the current wage — under a plan announced Thursday morning by Mayor Ed Murray.
Ending a fight that lasted more than a decade, the Florida Senate voted Thursday to let undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at public colleges and universities.
All 34 cities targeted for the expansion of Google'S fast Fiber Internet service met a deadline on Thursday by responding to a long list of requirements from the company.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, confronting the unsettled labor agreements that have loomed over his first months in office, announced a deal on Thursday with New York City’s largest teachers’ union that would raise wages by 18 percent over nine years in exchange for a $1.3 billion reduction in health care costs.
Obama administration officials on Thursday predicted health insurance premiums would be stable next year despite concerns that not enough young and healthy people signed up through the online insurance exchanges.
For the first time, the federal government on Thursday named colleges and universities that are facing investigations into their handling of sexual assaults.
As states and localities burn through federal fire-fighting funds faster than predicted, they worry the federal government will once again cut fire prevention programs to make up the difference.
Lucinda Babers, director of Washington, D.C's Department of Motor Vehicles, on why everyone in Washington will no longer have to get a new driver's license by January in order to be in compliance with federal ID requirements.
Percent of Florida's public employees who would have to retire at the same time in order for the Florida Retirement System to go bankrupt.
A lot of elderly people are eligible for food stamps but either don't know they are or face barriers to signing up.
Transit agencies and public universities have a lot at stake while corporate heavyweights clash over state and congressional efforts to rein in “patent trolls.”
Mark Dayton touts his accomplishments, but says there's still "work left to do."
The GOP plan to plan to steer more state employees toward private pension funds and away from the traditional defined benefit plan isn't going to happen.
Police departments recover all sorts of stolen goods. Increasingly, officials use image hosting services to get the property back to its owners instead of just auctioning it off.
Several state-run insurance exchanges have verged on disastrous, but the states may be too blue to give Republican gubernatorial candidates much of a boost.
Review state graduation rates for public high schools, broken down by race and ethnicity.
Counties in Washington state have joined a growing number of local jurisdictions in Colorado and Oregon that will no longer detain immigrants who are eligible for release on behalf of federal immigration authorities.
A Democratic group with ties to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been quietly working to enforce the controversial Citizens United decision at the state level.
The drug used in Tuesday night’s botched execution in Oklahoma – midazolam – is stored by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice and can be used at any time in the state's death penalty protocol, raising concerns among defense lawyers and others about the state’s secretive lethal injection process.
The National Transportation Safety Board has launched an investigation of a freight train derailment in Lynchburg that destroyed three oil tanker cars, lifted a plume of black smoke into the sky and spilled thousands of gallons of crude oil into the James River.
At least two inmates died and more than 150 other people were injured when an apparent gas explosion collapsed part of a county jail in the Florida panhandle late Wednesday, officials said.
Iowa lawmakers early Thursday morning approved legislation legalizing the possession and use of marijuana oil for the treatment of epilepsy.
Maps shows real per capita personal incomes for metro areas.
Some of the starkest illustrations of the uneven recovery are shown by a new measure estimating real personal income. See how data for each metro area compares.
Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam, reacting to the news that Heisman Trophy winner (and Florida State University student) Jameis Winston was issued a misdemeanor citation Tuesday for allegedly stealing crab legs from a local Publix.
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