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The train derailment that killed four in New York Sunday has re-energized a long-running debate over the use of technology to prevent rail accidents.
Newark Mayor Luis Quintana has made a lot of moves since taking the helm of the state’s largest city from Cory Booker.
The U.S. Department of Education has threatened action against Arizona’s schools unless the state can prove that it has an acceptable teacher-evaluation system that uses students’ test scores as part of the rating.
The 19 firefighters who perished when 40-foot flames overtook them in a rocky canyon near Prescott in June were the victims of poor planning and bad communication, forced into a losing battle to protect structures and pasturelands that were "indefensible," a state safety commission concluded Wednesday.
The hard-fought passage here Tuesday of a landmark bill trimming retirement benefits for state workers, aimed at fixing the vastly underfunded pension system, has become instantly relevant to the nation’s third-largest city, which has its own pension systems in various stages of financial collapse.
The recount of Virginia’s exceedingly tight race for attorney general will begin Dec. 16, a Richmond judge ruled Wednesday, as attorneys for the two candidates sparred over the procedures that will govern the ballot tally.
Calling it a potential health risk and a gateway to tobacco use, the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday voted unanimously to regulate the sales of e-cigarettes and other "vaping" devices.
Amount of gas tax increase, over three years, proposed by U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon to address the growing shortfall of the Highway Trust Fund. Blumenauer says the bill has little chance of becoming law.
Tweet sent several years ago by Taylor Palmisano, deputy finance director for Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s re-election campaign. Walker fired Palmisano Tuesday over the remarks.
As fewer people apply, and more applicants are rejected, the city struggles to replace police officers leaving the agency.
Police say device solves crimes; ACLU raises privacy issue
Gov. Christie will not sign a bill extending in-state college tuition rates to undocumented immigrants because the students also would be allowed to receive state financial aid.
A new bill would make D.C. join the handful of municipalities that give legal permanent residents who are not U.S. citizens the right to vote in local elections. So far, more than a quarter of the Council supports the measure.
The federal government is offering a temporary fix for a problem that prevents consumers from signing up for Medicaid through the online insurance marketplace.
The legislation -- which would undoubtedly face an uphill battle -- would increase the federal gas tax by 15 cents over three years.
Illinois’ status as the lowest-rated U.S. state won’t necessarily improve now that lawmakers have passed a measure to overhaul the state’s underfunded pensions.
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The latest bill to expand the medical marijuana program is only days old, but Gov. Chris Christie said he already knows he won't sign it.
At Princeton University, where eight cases of bacterial meningitis have surfaced this year , officials have put up posters and e-mailed students warning them to guard against spreading the potentially fatal disease.
All 50 states and the District of Columbia have more lax financial disclosure rules for their high court justices than the disclosure requirements for federal judges, according to an analysis from a watchdog group.
The D.C. Council unanimously endorsed an $11.50-an-hour minimum wage for the nation’s capital Tuesday, completing a rare act of regional cooperation with the Maryland suburbs and setting up a stark contrast with the $7.25 federal minimum wage.
Alabama's Jefferson County on Tuesday closed on a $1.78 billion sewer bond deal and brought an end to what had been the biggest U.S. municipal bankruptcy before Detroit filed for court protection from creditors in July.
Illinois lawmakers narrowly approved a historic, sweeping overhaul of government worker pension systems Tuesday, overcoming years of political and philosophical differences in an attempt to address one of the state's most pressing financial problems.
The legislature has reached a tentative deal on a pension fix.
Officials in Salt Lake City say that by the end of this month, they will have zero chronically homeless veterans.
The United States continues to perform below-average in math and middle-of-the-road in reading and science when compared with other industrialized nations.
Just a few days after the federal government delayed online enrollment, California announced better news for small businesses who want to buy health insurance.
Public pensions were dealt a historic blow Tuesday when a Detroit bankruptcy judge sided with the city in ruling that entitlements could be subject to cuts in municipalities under Chapter 9 protection.
Not only are landlines more reliable during disasters, rural residents and the elderly are concerned about the new generation of phone services that will likely be less regulated.
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