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Fairbury Junior-Senior High School has had students participate in random drug-testing system for two years where students and their parents are required to sign a consent form agreeing to urinalysis, reported the Journal Star.
The Trump administration is rolling back carbon dioxide emissions regulations. Meanwhile, states are divided on whether to raise their clean air standards.
Utah state Sen. Todd Weiler, who voted for a new state law that makes it a misdemeanor to lie about a pet being an emotional support animal. More than two dozen states have passed laws cracking down on this type of fraud.
Age of Quinton Lucas, the Kansas City Councilor who won the mayor's race on Tuesday. He will be the city's youngest mayor in more than a century.
Quinton Lucas, who rose from poverty and homelessness on Kansas City's East Side to become an Ivy League-educated lawyer and City Council member, won a decisive victory in the mayor's race Tuesday night, becoming the youngest person to win the office in more than a century.
The legislation sharpened its focus on unscrupulous doctors while easing the list of medical conditions that physicians could cite in allowing schoolchildren to skip required immunizations.
Concern about an undercount of Native Americans is gaining traction here and across the country.
More Americans are saying they need a variety of animals — dogs, ducks, even insects — for their mental health. But critics say many are really just pets that do not merit special status.
One thing is certain: Illinois’ population has declined by 157,000 residents over the past five years, making it one of only two states — West Virginia is the other — to lose people over the past decade.
Gov. Cuomo and state lawmakers reached a deal Tuesday and planned to vote on a sweeping piece of climate legislation that would promote green jobs, end the state's reliance on fossil fuels and eliminate nearly all man-made pollution by 2050.
Hoosier taxpayers could be forced to pay the price for alleged sexual misconduct by Attorney General Curtis Hill Jr.
Some $2.3 million in unused funds from a $19.1 million federal grant for election cybersecurity for the 2018 election cycle is being rerouted back to counties that failed to spend the money ahead of that election.
South Bend, Indiana Mayor and 2020 Democratic candidate Pete Buttigieg on Tuesday requested the city's police chief to issue an order reaffirming the city's police department's policy on body cameras.
Kansas prisons are in crisis after decisions by state leaders have left them overcrowded and suffering from dangerous staff shortages.
Making medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder more readily available is a cost-effective, life-saving strategy. Some states are showing the way.
Faced with teacher strikes, many districts are making commitments they can't afford. It may be time to establish state-level GAOs to rein them in.
They have a lot going for them, but they need the kind of infrastructure investment that partnering with financial institutions can provide.
According to the most comprehensive report of its kind, states spend more than $9 billion a year incarcerating people who violate community supervision terms that even corrections officials admit are difficult to comply with.
James Gelfand, senior vice president of health policy for the ERISA Industry Committee, on air ambulance rides, which can cost in the tens of thousands and aren't usually covered by insurance. Congress is floating plans to protect patients from surprise medical bills -- but none of them address air ambulance costs.
On Monday, New York joined the 12 other states that let undocumented immigrants get driver's licenses.
In 2017, GAO found that the median price charged nationally by air ambulance providers was around $36,400 for helicopter rides and even higher for other aircraft.
State Police and Randolph County Sheriff's deputies on Friday announced they detained 48-year-old Rebecca Lynn O'Donnell in the ex-lawmaker's death.
So far, Cal Cunningham becomes the highest-profile Democrat to enter the Senate race.
Cake makers Melissa and Aaron Klein told lesbian couple Laurel and Rachel Bowman-Cryer in January 2013 that they didn't do same-sex wedding cakes.
Cuomo has repeatedly expressed support for the bill -- but raised last-minute concerns Monday about whether the information about undocumented immigrants gathered by the state DMV could be obtained by federal officials and used for immigration enforcement.
Every other state has sued, filed administrative charges or promised to sue the companies blamed for the national crisis, which played a role in the deaths of more than 390,000 Americans from 2000 through 2017.
Arizona law prohibits use of the funds out of state, but the bill makes an exception until July 1, 2020, for any student currently using an Empowerment Scholarship Account voucher at an out-of-state private school within 2 miles of the state border.
The birth rate is at an all-time low. That’s going to have a major impact on public services.
Absentee property owners from abroad take much of the blame for rising housing prices in America. But they’re really a net win for cities.
First-time buyers aren’t just acquiring property. They’re taking on a jurisdiction’s financial liabilities.
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