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With Maryland’s strict new gun-control law set to take effect Tuesday, Randy Mattoon was among a crush of customers who came early Monday to Pasadena Pawn and Gun, where a sign outside advertised it was the “last day” to buy many assault rifles.
Fitch Ratings downgraded Detroit’s bond rating today after the city opted not to make payments on its general obligation bonds.
Arkansas has received approval from the federal government to proceed with the so-called “private option” for providing health care coverage to the state’s working poor, Gov. Mike Beebe announced Friday.
Separately, Mayor Vincent Gray has sought to designate all of the city’s 32,000 employees as exempt from shutdown furloughs
A national memorial service for fallen firefighters would lose access to a venue, and other needed facilities, if the federal government shutdown persists.
Scott Feldt, the deputy treasurer of Wisconsin, who says he sees a “national trend” of attempts to move state treasurers’ duties into the hands of boards and executive agencies.
Doing what Congress failed to do, California became the first state to require websites to let minors delete what they post on social media. But the new law has already ignited a heated debate.
Hoping to reinvent the sprawling city, El Paso officials decided to teach the development community the importance of new urbanism. Now, other cities are following in its footsteps.
States and localities aren't too concerned about the immediate impacts of the federal shutdown that began at midnight, but a prolonged one is another matter.
Rushing floodwaters loaded with heavy debris damaged oil and gas pipes and tanks, causing the two large spills that state and federal regulators were tracking Thursday.
A review of records since 2011 shows several of the region's lawmakers are routinely absent on voting days. Some missed days or weeks at a time.
Californians who use the Internet will get new protection against identity theft and tracking of their personal data under a cluster of bills signed into law Friday by Gov. Jerry Brown.
New York is indeed an expensive place, but experts say that alone doesn’t explain a recent report that found the city’s annual cost per inmate was $167,731 last year — nearly as much as it costs to pay for four years of tuition at an Ivy League university.
Hundreds of Fairfax County high school seniors have dropped their first classes of the day so they can stay in bed a bit longer this school year, part of a decades-long effort pushing for later school start times.
One out of every four California elementary school students — nearly 1 million total — are truant each year, an "attendance crisis" that is jeopardizing their academic futures and depriving schools of needed dollars, the state attorney general said in a report to be released Monday.
More than a dozen women's health care providers in Texas sued the state Friday, attempting to block as unconstitutional key provisions of a strict new abortion law that drew massive protests and threw the Legislature into chaos before it was approved this summer.
A state judge ruled Friday that same-sex couples have the right to marry in New Jersey, a decision that reverberated across the state and sets up a final battle between gay rights advocates and Gov. Chris Christie at the state Supreme Court.
Attorney General Eric Holder will announce a lawsuit today challenging voting restrictions adopted by North Carolina after the Supreme Court struck down a core provision of the U.S. Voting Rights Act, said a person briefed on the plans.
There are a number of things that states and municipal governments can do to help get their retirement costs under control without dialing back their current employees' benefits.
The standards-setting board for government financial reporting has been embroiled in one controversy after another, but the latest fight could result in the gutting of GASB's influence.
Population data for residents moving to new states in 2012
For these teams to have impact, departments need to know just what they can do for them and how they do it.
The drop in Minnesota's cigarette sales in July, the month it raised tobacco taxes from $1.23 to $2.83.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, in a TV interview with CBS This Morning. Christie's brash governing style has led some to call him a bully, but he's still favored to win re-election this year.
New Jersey is not doing enough to foster affordable housing in every community, the state Supreme Court said Thursday in a major decision that gives the Christie administration five months to draft new housing rules.
A Cook County judge decided Thursday that Gov. Pat Quinn’s move to stop paying lawmakers was unconstitutional and ordered Illinois Comptroller Judy Baar Topinka to pay them immediately — plus interest.
It brings the number of lawsuits against the state over this issue to four.
Several influential Democrats today tell the Star-Telegram that Davis and her team have told supporters that she’s in the race, but wanted to be the one to publicly announce the news to grassroots supporters during an afternoon event Oct. 3
The Massachusetts Senate voted unanimously Thursday to abolish a sales tax on software services that generated a firestorm of criticism from business leaders, following Wednesday’s action in the House of Representatives to repeal the fledgling levy.
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