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Pennsylvania Republican Party Chairman Val DiGiorgio resigned Tuesday after The Inquirer reported that he had traded sexually explicit messages with a onetime GOP candidate for Philadelphia City Council.
Judith Persichilli would be the first nurse to hold the job that includes licensing and inspecting hospitals and nursing homes, responding to public health emergencies and running the medicinal marijuana program.
The state routinely has some of the nation’s highest rates of domestic violence, sexual assault and murder.
The amended bill says internet service providers that are contracted by the state have to agree to provide "net neutral service."
Some state vehicles in Maryland will be outfitted with digital license plates as part of a two-year pilot program to see if the developing technology could work for customers.
There are more lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans politicians than ever before, but they only make up .1 percent of elected officials.
The potential change in the federal poverty line would lower the number of people who qualify for social services by almost 1 million.
National Guard troops that the Texas governor said on Friday that he will deploy to the U.S.-Mexico border, which will double the number of Texas troops there.
G. Kemble Bennett, on how he thought of "Disaster City," a mock municipality where Texas A&M’s Emergency Services Training Institute prepares first responders from around the world for the worst disasters. The "city" has derailed train cars, a leaking chemical tank, a strip mall, an office complex, a single-family home and a theater, to name a few.
Gov. Abbott said the troops will have two main roles: to help at temporary holding facilities for single adult migrants in the Rio Grande Valley and in El Paso, and to help Border Patrol units along ports of entry.
After calling the bill a "fig leaf" aimed at saving Louisiana's attorney general from embarrassment, Gov. John Bel Edwards quietly signed into a law a measure pushed by one of his political rivals that aims to eventually offer some protections to patients if the Affordable Care Act is overturned.
Nebraska was one of three states with Republican-controlled legislatures where voters last year approved an expansion.
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The mock municipality began taking shape in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. Now, it is part of Texas A&M’s nearly 300-acre Emergency Services Training Institute, which attracts firefighters and other first responders from around the globe.
This latest challenge shows how schools struggle to fill empty teaching positions and maintain teaching standards.
The U.S. Public Interest Research Group's annual list of “highway boondoggles” includes nine transportation projects that will cost a total of $25 billion while driving up emissions.
More people are registering as Republicans than Democrats in states with gubernatorial elections this year and in some 2020 battleground states.
Ransom that hackers demanded from Riviera Beach, Fla., which is equivalent to $600,000. The city paid it. The cyberattack forced local police and fire departments to write 911 calls on paper.
Tom Cochran, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, referring to West Sacramento, Calif., Mayor Christopher Cabaldon.
Ten new cities join the next City Accelerator cohort to leverage municipal spending and nurture diverse businesses.
Planned Parenthood will continue providing abortions at least until a St. Louis judge issues a ruling in the clinic's legal battle with the state Department of Health and Senior Services, which on Friday declined to renew the facility's license.
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Among other things, the amended rules ease the requirements on certain foods containing marijuana and on state residency requirements for operating a recreational marijuana businesses.
Threats against the state lawmakers and government officials come amid a clash between Democrats and Republicans, specifically over a sweeping greenhouse gas emissions cap-trade-bill.
The bill’s signing makes Illinois the first state to forbid such detention centers.
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to scrap the entrance exam attracted national fanfare when it was announced, but it soon collided with stubborn realities.
New Jersey's governor on Thursday signed a law to improve rideshare safety in honor of Robbinsville, New Jersey, native Samantha "Sami" Josephson, a college student who was kidnapped and killed after she got into a car she mistakenly thought was an Uber.
The federal guidelines for bus fire safety haven't been significantly updated in nearly 50 years, according to the NTSB.
Dave Bauer, the CEO of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association, says the Trump administration and Congress need to pitch in to help states accomplish their transportation goals.
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