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Total cost of Boston's one-year pilot program to keep the city's transit service running until 3 a.m. on the weekends.
Mark Williams, who patrols Michigan as "Petoskey Batman," referring to his former colleague, Adam Besso (who uses the moniker "Bee Sting"). Williams and Besso are in a dispute over leadership of the Michigan Protectors, a group that fights crime while dressed as superheroes.
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Gov. Mark Dayton on Thursday proposed initiatives to enhance railroad safety on the same day that rail workers protested Canadian Pacific’s safety practices by picketing its U.S. headquarters in Minneapolis.
The early afternoon announcement of a bipartisan Senate agreement on Medicaid expansion was perfect timing for Gov. Maggie Hassan, giving a boost to her push for expanding access to health care for 50,000 residents in her State of the State address yesterday.
Communities can’t pass ordinances to preempt Michigan’s 5-year-old medical marijuana law, according to a Michigan Supreme Court ruling Thursday — a far-reaching move that “ends a long, tortuous battle in the courts,” one legal expert said.
Virginia would become the only state where death-row inmates could be forced to accept electrocution as the means of their death.
The state of Ohio has reimbursed local officials $1,100 for the cost of Ariel Castro’s autopsy following his jailhouse suicide last fall, according to a letter from the state’s prison director.
Dannel Malloy proposes minimum wage increase, universal pre-school, free courses for college dropouts, and aid to homeless veterans.
Chris Christie seemed unaware he signed Camden eminent domain bill.
Amid a particularly harsh winter in much of the country, many communities are running low on salt, which helps make frozen roads safer.
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A new report indicates that water availability is a risk for oil and gas drillers.
The drop in the approval rating of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie over the last year from 74 percent to 55 percent.
Fluke became famous in 2012 after radio host Rush Limbaugh called her a “slut” when the then-law student testified in Congress in favor of mandatory insurance coverage of contraception.
Portland Public Schools teachers have authorized the first strike in the history of Oregon's largest school system and set a walkout date: Feb. 20.
The ruling poses a real challenge for the state now that the 27-acre campus has been shuttered, its 93 workers laid off and its juvenile clients relocated.
The Obama administration will set up 10 centers around the country to help farmers and ranchers adjust to the increasing frequency of severe weather and other risks associated with climate change.
As Americans have grown increasingly comfortable with traditional surveillance cameras, a new, far more powerful generation is being quietly deployed that can track every vehicle and person across an area the size of a small city, for several hours at a time.
A second Democratic candidate for governor emerged Wednesday as a challenger to Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald for the right to face Republican Gov. John Kasich in November’s election.
Regions in the southwest, Colorado and Florida added the most residents in 2011.
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A new report details which states are enacting policies aimed at helping low-income Americans become more financially secure and whether those policies translate into change.
It would be naive to say that politics is not part of Chief Financial Officers' job. But for them, the challenge is to prove that their allegiance is to the balance sheets.
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, on his plan to offer two years of community college for free to every new high school graduate.
Stuck between promises to the public and aging equipment, Riverside, Calif., must determine the best course of action for its free, citywide Wi-Fi network.
Greg Abbott touts a $300 million border security proposal.
Nathan Deal names group to examine state's storm preparedness.
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