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The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a 1995 law that requires doctors to notify parents of girls younger than 17 who seek an abortion.
Ohio's rainy day fund has hit an all-time high of $1.48 billion, following a deposit of $996 million last week from a budget surplus.
Newly passed abortion restrictions adopted in Texas is the latest in a series of state-level political fights triggering a frenzy of legal action that could determine how much access to abortion services American women have in the future.
Already well-known in political circles and extremely well-financed, Attorney General Greg Abbott formally announced Sunday he's running for governor, hoping to seize the fiercely socially conservative mantle of Gov. Rick Perry that has helped make Texas the country's largest red state.
The Washington, D.C. City Council announced last week that it will consider legislation that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana.
A trial begins today to determine the constitutionality of Pennsylvania's voter identification law that requires voters have photo IDs with them in order to vote.
Some residents of Northern Colorado are moving forward with their threat to secede and form a separate state with representatives from eight counties meeting to map the boundaries.
The amount that state and local governments are estimated to spend on information technology in 2013.
Economist Victor Matheson, discussing the millions of dollars Glendale, Ariz., stands to lose in an effort to keep it's NHL hockey team from leaving for a different location.
Following a not-guilty verdict in the high-profile Zimmerman trial there were protests across the country and a lot of questions about what will come next for George Zimmerman.
Both doctors and public officials are aware of the limitations created by using body mass index to define obesity, which is now considered a disease. But no clear alternative has emerged.
The struggling Pennsylvania city is auctioning off items that were acquired for an ill-conceived Wild West museum.
Which of the 38 gubernatorial contests are neck-and-neck?
President Barack Obama called for every state to raise the legal age students can drop out of high school to 18 last year. But states haven't been quick to make any changes.
Governing looks at the seats that are currently leaning Democratic.
People who look at their cities and see extraordinary possibilities are a precious resource. Cultivating and handling them can be tricky.
A city that's growing can spend more money while keeping taxes low. But when the limits of growth are reached, it will need to reinvent itself.
President Obama's new climate action plan requires a lot of cooperation from the states, but there will be numerous challenges in getting all of them on board given the diversity of their current environmental and energy profiles.
A strategy that has been used to close abortion clinics in other states by imposing new regulations on them was approved in a contentious bill in the state House on Wednesday.
Senators scheduled a vote on a pivotal abortion bill Friday afternoon, one day after a Senate committee gave its approval on a partisan 6-3 vote
The White House late Wednesday said it would veto the 608-page farm bill because it omitted SNAP spending and did not "contain sufficient commodity and crop insurance reforms."
Corrections officials confirmed they would discipline striking inmates, who object to conditions in solitary confinement and also have grievances about prison food, rehabilitation programs and other policies.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, who’s suffering from low approval ratings and has a tough reelection battle looming next year, is facing yet another politically difficult decision: whether or not to stand up for the Keystone State’s same-sex marriage ban.
Since Utah's new law requiring drug screening for welfare applicants went into effect last August, the state has spent more than $26,000 looking for drug users among 4,400 applicants. Of those applicants, about 400 were identified after taking a written test as having a "reasonable likelihood" that they were using drugs.
In an unusually frank document, the city has laid out stark statistical descriptions of poverty in Philadelphia, accompanied by a plan to try to deal with the problem.
The mayor of San Diego apologized on Thursday for failing to respect women who worked for him after a prominent former supporter accused him of sexual harassment and urged him to resign as leader of the nation’s eighth-largest city.
In the age of mobile phone cameras and instant posting to social media, the governor seems to have moved in and out of the throngs without anyone capturing his interaction on video or film.
The median monthly housing cost in the United States, according to new data from the Census Bureau’s 2011 American Housing Survey.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood, who is the only Democrat holding a statewide office in the Deep South.
Now that Gov. Rick Perry isn't running for re-election, will Texas stay Republican? Which of the 38 gubernatorial contests are tilting Republican?
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