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A Pennsylvania school district that threatened parents who owed money for their kids' lunch has reversed course and is now accepting a generous donation to cover the debt.
As cities embark on light replacement campaigns, many are simultaneously experimenting with smart technology that can be attached to utility poles and used to collect data on everything from traffic patterns to snow accumulation.
The town's decision to shut off the water led to a county emergency declaration, and an even wider response to the ongoing shortage.
In embracing new strategies, its municipalities are sowing the seeds of change. They need financial and professional support.
Total locally focused nonprofits and nonprofits per capita by metro area.
Most states have recently passed laws to combat trafficking. But they aren't always funded or enforced, and some activists say they could have the opposite intended effect.
Children who were removed from their home in 2017 due to parental drug use -- up from 39,130 in 2000.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, after two weeks of massive protests and political upheaval triggered by the arrest of six current and former administration officials on corruption charges.
Critics say it could weaken the state's retirement system, which is already the worst-funded in the nation.
Trump is the only president in modern memory to refuse to release his tax returns for public scrutiny upon taking office, prompting widespread speculation about what he may be hiding.
Just before midnight on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker granted a 14-day temporary restraining order to block the restrictions from taking effect.
The declaration enables local governments to utilize cybersecurity experts from the Louisiana National Guard, Louisiana State Police, the Office of Technology Services and others to resolve and prevent cyberattacks, according to the news release.
Ninety percent of Americans don’t have long-term care insurance — even though half of all people 65 and over will need such care at some point.
The Department of Justice says the Utah attorney general’s office is stonewalling its subpoenas as it repeatedly promises but fails to turn over documents as part of an investigation into whether state officials lied to obtain federal grants.
Statewide, 326 water agencies serving nearly 1 million of California's almost 40 million residents are out of compliance with state standards on contamination levels or treatment techniques.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló announced late Wednesday evening that he is resigning from office effective Aug. 2.
A large-scale rollout not only would significantly improve air quality but also holds the promise of good new jobs for the disadvantaged.
Too often, it's uncharted territory. But the time to prepare is before a community is overwhelmed.
Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, who introduced a new law that makes New York the first state to outlaw cat declawing.
Fine in Hawaii for crossing an intersection after the countdown for pedestrians has begun. The new law follows a rise in pedestrian deaths in the state.
The settlement says state agencies and universities can't ban transgender people from using the bathroom of the gender with which they identify. It applies only to public restrooms and similar facilities in state government buildings.
City Council members in Charlotte on Monday night will consider a resolution to "strongly condemn," among other things, President Donald Trump's recent call for four congresswomen to leave the United States.
House Bill 836 ensures children are able to have short-term guardians if they have a parent detained or deported by ICE.
The first-term Democratic governor did not give details, but a Lujan Grisham spokesman cited communication and leadership issues and said education initiatives were not being implemented as quickly and thoroughly as the governor wanted.
The legislation, which Gov. Kate Brown signed last month, lets students have an excused absence if they miss school because of their mental or behavioral health.
The state is training an additional 20 prison inmates to potentially respond to wildfires.
The measure, which passed in June in both houses at the State Capitol, was signed into law Monday by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. Its provisions took effect immediately on Monday.
The amount Equifax has agreed to pay to settle federal and state investigations into a 2017 data breach that exposed Social Security numbers and other sensitive information for nearly 150 million people. The settlement would be the largest ever paid by a company over a data breach.
A bill that would help the billion-dollar industry get access to bank accounts won support from some key U.S. senators.
Former Florida Democratic state House candidate Elizabeth McCarthy confessing to a state investigator that she lied about being a medical doctor and about removing 77 bullets from 32 victims of the 2016 Pulse shooting in Orlando.
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