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Radio host and activist Egberto Willies referring to a photo of a black man in between two horse-mounted police in Galveston, Texas. The photo sparked outrage and a change in the department's policy.
Amelia O'Dowd, who lives two blocks from where the mass shooting occurred this past weekend in Dayton, Ohio.
Ratio of bills enacted to those introduced in state legislatures this year to help with consumer pharmaceutical costs.
Net number of jobs Kansas has lured away from Missouri over the last 10 years of economic development competition between the two states.
Rebecca Rhynhart ousted a three-term incumbent to become the city’s first female controller.
There are now five lawsuits seeking to strike down SB27, which was signed last week by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's introduction Tuesday of a package of legislative priorities to help curb gun violence drew mixed reviews from Ohioans.
Three years after Illinois' voter registration database was infiltrated by Russian hackers, Illinois and local officials are spending millions to upgrade the cyber defenses protecting voters and their ballots leading up to the 2020 election.
More than 200 emails sent to an unstaffed office at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment were ignored.
Chief Vernon Hale apologized to Neely in a Facebook post on Monday night.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has ordered a state criminal probe into the actions of the Palm Beach sheriff and the former Palm Beach state attorney for their handling of the Jeffrey Epstein underage sex trafficking case.
The new eligibility system installed last year was set to drop 75,000 people from the Medicaid rolls because of the automatic closure feature for people who needed to renew their coverage annually.
Tweet from Nebraska state Sen. John McCollister after the El Paso shooting. In response, the Nebraska Republican Party called the statement false and urged McCollister to leave the GOP.
Amount the Trump campaign owes the Texas city of El Paso for police and public safety services associated with a rally there in February. Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke held a rally the same day and paid the city in May.
Secretary Leslie Richards is trying to re-engineer the engineering process by making community engagement a top priority.
How can a community learn from its civic projects and build on them? There are lessons in Baton Rouge's years-long effort to establish a center for people suffering from mental illness or substance abuse.
Gun laws vary from state to state, but more often than not, states do not restrict the type of military-style weapons and large-capacity magazines that were used in two mass shootings over the weekend.
A flurry of states have recently passed such laws — known as extreme risk protection orders — which allow a court to intervene when someone shows warning signs of impending violence.
Technical glitches, delays and miscommunication are roiling the Real ID implementation in those states, calling into question whether residents will have the secure driver’s license needed to travel by air or enter government restricted areas after October 2020.
The Nebraska Republican Party on Monday called for GOP state Sen. John McCollister to re-register as a Democrat after he accused the party of enabling white supremacy in the United States.
The Department of Education said it won’t be used to “label students as potential threats."
In addition to the text message controversy, legislative critics charged Casada of using harsh tactics, threats, "spies" and fear to hold GOP and Democratic lawmakers in check.
Oregon still doesn’t have campaign finance regulations, but the 2020 elections will include some important differences from past races, under bills signed into law by Gov. Kate Brown on Friday.
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U.S. voters who have been removed from registration lists in the last five years. Counties with histories of discrimination were once required to seek federal approval to purge voters. Without that rule, those counties purge voters at a higher rate than other counties.
Tennessee state Rep. Bill Dunn, expressing less than excitement to temporarily replace House Speaker Glen Casada. That means attending State Building Commission meetings.
Ratings agencies want more information about each state and local government's vulnerability to extreme weather. Moody's isn't waiting for them to give it up.
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Lt. Gov. Tate Reeves has been the frontrunner all year, but in Tuesday's primary, he fell just short of the majority needed to avoid a runoff.
Lake Hopatcong, a popular summer attraction, is filled with cyanobacteria in quantities never before recorded.
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