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So unpopular was the program that Georgia lawmakers unanimously voted on a measure earlier this year to dissolve it and Gov. Brian Kemp, who campaigned on a promise to round up illegal immigrants in his pickup truck, signed it into law without a public statement.
Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck was accused Tuesday by a federal grand jury of stealing more than $2 million from his former employer.
Gov. Jared Polis on Monday signed House Bill 1280, setting aside $100 for all Colorado kids born or adopted between 2020 and 2040.
Sununu, a 44-year-old Newfields Republican, made the announcement Tuesday night on social media after he and his wife had discussed his future.
Well-run retirement plans are an important reason why talented employees join the public sector workforce. In a 2018 Accenture survey of 2,800 public and private employees, 78 percent said pension benefits are critical to accepting employment and 73 percent stay with an employer because of the retirement benefits offered.
By partnering with community organizations, the city is making it easier for business owners to access capital, training and other resources.
In Colorado, Republicans are trying to oust a dozen Democratic state legislators. It's the latest example of a political party using once-rare recalls as a way to gain control.
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis, in his first veto, which was of a bill that would have banned local governments from banning plastic straws.
While many think it might be the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico, there's also a push to make it Chicago. Eight Illinois lawmakers, all Republicans, have cosigned a statehood resolution.
The 5-4 ruling is both a win for the California Franchise Tax Board and a victory for the conservative principle of state "sovereign immunity."
Many rural, often conservative, residents of large Democratic-controlled states are tired of being overshadowed politically, culturally and economically by big cities.
Newsom adopted a policy of his predecessor, former Gov. Jerry Brown, to use his state constitutional authority to issue pardons to shield immigrants targeted by federal immigration officials.
Bullock has managed to win several statewide elections in predominantly rural Montana by running as a moderate who also embraces some liberal proposals.
In his veto letter to Secretary of State Laurel Lee, he said municipalities that prohibit plastic straws have not "frustrated any state policy" or "harmed the state's interest."
In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Joseph McKinley ruled the law is unconstitutional because it restricts a woman's constitutional right to an abortion before the fetus is considered viable, at around 24 weeks.
Those Florida counties have, essentially, been running English-only elections: voter registration materials, guides, instructions, ballots and other materials were only provided in English.
For the 7,800 people of Fort Scott, about 90 miles south of Kansas City, the hospital’s closure was a loss they never imagined possible, sparking anger and fear.
Tim Storey, who will take over as NCSL's executive director, has pledged to maintain the organization's bipartisan approach.
Amount by which Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc is accused of inflating some drug prices. More than 40 state attorneys general are suing the drug company.
Shawn Sample, a karate instructor, after Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey signed a bill to remove nunchucks from the list of weapons prohibited in public.
The Trump administration is pulling some federal funding from California. But that project and others like it are quickly moving forward.
It turns out that the same lethal drug that has been driving the nation’s spiraling opioid epidemic is also causing an historic surge in overdose deaths among cocaine users.
The bill continues the program, which began in 2016, and provides health insurance to about 95,000 low-income adults.
The law faces an almost certain court challenge, likely backed by the state's largest teachers union, the Florida Education Association.
On Friday, the state's Republican governor, Doug Ducey signed a bill removing nunchucks from a list of prohibited weapons that includes bombs, gun silencers and automatic firearms.
Over the past few decades, as a manufacturing decline left homes vacant and storefronts dark, New York’s upstate cities opened their doors to refugees.
HB 1050 reclassifies possession of up to a half ounce of marijuana by adults 21 and older as an infraction punishable by no jail time and a maximum fine of $1,000.
Garner was killed July 17, 2014, as police in Staten Island tried to arrest him for selling loose cigarettes.
The 20 drug companies engaged in illegal conspiracies to divide up the market for drugs to avoid competing and, in some cases, conspired to either prevent prices from dropping or to raise them, according to the complaint by 44 U.S. states, filed on Friday in the U.S. District Court in Connecticut.
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