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Three months after Republican Paul LePage became Maine’s governor in 2011, he signed a law adopting the Common Core standards to better prepare students for college or careers.
Inmates leading California's largest prison protest ended a two-month hunger strike Thursday without winning major concessions on solitary confinement conditions — their main grievance — but with the promise of legislative hearings on the issue.
The state would license 334 pot stores, including at least 21 in Seattle and 61 in King County, under revised state rules for a recreational marijuana system.
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The newest round of funding for the popular program includes $474 million for 52 transportation projects, including streetcars, roads, bike trails and "complete street" initiatives.
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The number of states that allow commercial casinos, compared to just six in the early 1990s. As more states open casinos, others are losing revenue.
Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, who announced Wednesday that he won't seek a second term because he wants to focus on addressing the state's problems.
Gov. Rick Snyder has tapped a veteran auto industry executive to become the state’s automotive adviser.
California education officials presented a proposal Wednesday that would immediately do away with the standardized reading, math and social science tests used to measure student learning and school performance since the late 1990s.
The state’s highest court heard an atheist couple’s argument that the words “under God” should be struck from “the Pledge of Allegiance” in Massachusetts public schools because, they contend, the two words exclude their three children from declaring their patriotism.
Albuquerque has become the latest flash point in the abortion wars, with Operation Rescue, the militant group based in Kansas, calling it the “late-term abortion capital of the country.”
The California Supreme Court indicated Wednesday that federal law appeared to prevent immigrants without green cards from obtaining licenses to practice law.
The North Las Vegas City Council has rejected a controversial proposal to use eminent domain to help refinance underwater mortgages and instead will wait for the state to weigh in on the legality of the plan.
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s political blessing, once coveted, is now seen as a detriment to most mayoral candidates.
Former President Bill Clinton Wednesday championed the new Affordable Care Act, but urged Congress and the states to fix its worst problems.
In a move that surprised many but shocked almost no one, first-term Governor Chafee announced Wednesday that he will not seek reelection next year.
Three new books offer public officials insights into how people make judgments — and how institutions can make better decisions.
A comprehensive approach to financial counseling that originated in New York City is spreading across the country. It holds the promise of saving cities money over the long term.
The nation's drop in college enrollment from 2011 to 2012, which is the largest year-over-year decline since 1955.
Alicia Butler, a member of the Texas National Guard, which refused to process requests from same-sex couples for benefits on Tuesday despite a Pentagon directive to do so.
U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, will take a spin in self-driving vehicles Wednesday morning.
For the second time in two months, a Cincinnati federal judge granted an order allowing the out-of-state marriage of a gay couple to be recognized in Ohio even though the state bans same-sex marriages.
Inmates will not, however, be permitted "at this time" to marry another inmate, in part due to "safety concerns," according to the memo.
Lights are timed so that successive traffic lights remain green, allowing for rush-hour traffic to get in and out of the city more efficiently, said Steve Kotke, director of the Minneapolis Public Works Department.
The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 this afternoon to pursue seceding from California.
President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul envisioned that about half of Indiana’s uninsured residents would get coverage through an expansion of Medicaid, the jointly run federal and state health program for the poor.
Three potential candidates for San Diego mayor said thanks but no thanks Tuesday, announcing that they will not run to succeed Bob Filner.
More than half of the states and the District of Columbia do not require schools or day care centers to meet minimum standards to protect children during major emergencies, according to a new report.
Tuesday was the first working day that gays in the military could apply for benefits after the Pentagon announced it would recognize same-sex marriages.
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