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Dayton, Ohio, Mayor Nan Whaley speaking last week regarding the likelihood that another American city will be struck with a mass shooting soon.
The number of undocumented immigrants arrested by ICE at seven sites across Mississippi last week. The raids are believed to be the largest single-state immigration enforcement operation in the country's history.
The Virginia Tech shootings in 2007 claimed the lives of 32 people. The Virginia Beach shooting in May resulted in 12 deaths. In the 12 years between those mass shootings, more than 3,000 people were killed in shootings in Virginia.
Just months before the state's new privacy law is set to take effect, Silicon Valley giants and other corporations are facing off against privacy advocates in a last-ditch effort to alter the measure, the California Consumer Privacy Act, in the supermajority Democratic Legislature.
As climate change makes summers hotter, the health risks associated with these hyperlocal heat islands will grow.
The uneasy calm that had settled over Puerto Rico after huge protests brought down one governor and a second one was installed in his place ended on Wednesday when its Supreme Court ruled that the only way to maintain the constitutional order was to swear in the island’s third governor in a week.
The Arizona Department of Public Safety still issues concealed-weapons permits despite law changes from nearly a decade ago no longer requiring them.
Georgia's economy is still growing, but state agencies will have to look for ways to cut their budgets under a directive the Kemp administration sent out Tuesday.
Dayton, Ohio, Mayor Nan Whaley (D) said Wednesday that another American city will likely be struck with a mass shooting in the coming days as federal lawmakers fail to take legislative action following the latest massacres.
Many Republican state lawmakers don’t seem to have an appetite for taking up new gun control legislation despite last weekend’s mass shootings.
Texas is getting new gun laws.
Officials declined to provide details about what sites had been targeted, citing what they said was an ongoing criminal investigation.
The Tuesday ruling also blocks a new law barring providers from performing an abortion if the woman's decision to terminate the pregnancy was based on a diagnosis that the fetus has Down syndrome and another law requiring providers to be certified in obstetrics and gynecology.
Hogan said the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center is "actively monitoring" social media and other online activity for "potential threats."
One potential cause for the lag time is that the commission is essentially a startup, unlike other boards and agencies with built-in procedures and existing members.
The bill also added to the list of situations for which absentee voting is allowed -- if a voter is a caregiver for a family member and if a voter is incarcerated but not convicted of a felony that disqualifies them from voting.
They're often the ones who see public-health problems at their earliest stages. There are ways to make better use of their data.
Most states have repealed their Prohibition-era '3.2 laws,' but they would do beer-drinkers and retailers a favor by clearing away their remaining alcohol-content restrictions.
Only one has a cabinet-level official dedicated to the issue.
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.
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