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Florida State Sen. Audrey Gibson, objecting to a proposal to increase the speed limit on most interstate highways in her state to 75 mph.
The Islamic Center of Murfreesboro has been open for a year, but one candidate is trying to make the way it was approved a key issue in the election.
The six-year pact would cost the city $92.4 million.
Many teams are quietly lobbying for the right to earmark 50 percent of pots for prizes instead of just 10 percent. Critics view it as major-league favoritism.
In Pennsylvania's Democratic Primary, Candidates Running for Governor Are Happy to Embrace Obamacare
Democrats across the country have been fleeing the health care law. Not here.
The state can't get its website to work properly.
The professional cheerleading squad has suspended operations over allegations by workers that they were forced to work hundreds of hours for free and subjected to groping and sexual comments.
The D.C. Health Department says there's "strong public opinion" against any regulation requiring a cooling-off period.
"Then you can be a knitting homie, too.” Weekly class at a prison in Howard County, Md., imparts empathy, life lessons and accountability.
Differences between business leaders and labor unions advising Ed Murray on the issue make it difficult to build consensus.
State lawmakers frequently try to tell public colleges and universities what to do through the power of the budget.
Percent of U.S. cities reporting quantifiable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in city operations.
Fetal tissue has been used to power Oregon houses.
Library advocates urged Miami-Dade commissioners Wednesday to raise the tax money needed to avoid steep cuts at the county’s library system, and to ignore Mayor Carlos Gimenez’s call for a summer referendum on library funding.
Twitter critics take on LAPD after NY police hit on social media.
In a civil jury verdict that may be the first of its kind, a Texas family gets millions for damages from health problems due to fracking.
If Republicans lose the Alaska Senate race, they'll have Sarah Palin to thank.
The woman who killed affirmative action, twice, will still never have a University of Michigan degree.
Where do they live? There is considerable geographic variation.
Several 10-year-old Colorado kids were caught making marijuana deals at school — selling and swapping legally purchased pot they stole from their grandparents.
But lawmakers rejected more than a dozen of Terry McAuliffe’s amendments in the legislature’s annual “veto session.”
Since the day of the N.L.R.B. ruling that players were employees, Northwestern’s message to the players has been consistent and clear: Vote no — for yourselves, for the team and for the university.
Gov. Nathan Deal signs legislation to allow people to carry guns in bars, schools and the airport.
At the same time states are looking to beef up corporate tax collections, they are also cutting corporate taxes.
A dark money group released a misleading TV ad that attacks Arizona gubernatorial candidate Scott Smith for liberal policy positions adopted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
A recent court ruling has spurred some states to decide whether college athletes can organize.
Senate races can have coattails for gubernatorial contests, but the impact is far from guaranteed.
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