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Amount the former first lady of Oregon has agreed to pay to settle an ethics case against her. Cynthia Hayes worked as a paid consultant and an unpaid policy adviser to John Kitzhaber, who resigned in 2015 over the scandal.
Emma Stone, president of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Student Leadership Council, after Pennsylvania lawmakers voted to make the Eastern hellbender salamander the state's official amphibian. Because of hellbenders' sensitivity to pollution, their population has declined, making it an endangered species in some states.
Data showing domestic migration and international migration for U.S. counties.
More communities are training police officers to draw drivers’ blood at police stations or in vans.
Before now, Arkansas law said 16-year-old girls and 17-year-old boys could get married with the consent of both parents. However, there was an exception.
The death of a Florida teenager who authorities say was obsessed with the Columbine school shooting and may have planned to carry out her own attack in Colorado did not end an investigation into the 18-year-old, authorities said.
The move comes as privacy concerns are increasingly trumping lottery groups' wishes to publicize winners to boost sales and show that the games are fair.
Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday that electronics maker Foxconn Technology Group is unlikely to employ 13,000 workers in Wisconsin as it has said it could and that the state's deal with the company may need to be "downsized" as a result.
Licensed therapists in New Jersey have been prohibited since 2013 from engaging in reparative or conversion therapy for minors.
Newly confident red states are passing some of the strictest prohibitions the country has ever seen. Blue states are enacting ever stronger protections, like ones for later-term abortions in New York and Virginia.
Former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe announced Wednesday night that he's not running for president and is instead focusing on making sure Virginia Democrats win the House and the Senate.
In preparing for a disaster and recovering from one, residents and businesses need to know that their voices will be heard.
Tax breaks likely aren't enough to lure investors to low-income communities in rural areas. There are ways they can become more attractive.
Without enough volunteers to respond to emergencies, some fire departments are cutting services or even shutting down. Most are changing the way they recruit.
New places are emerging as destinations for people on the move.
Louisiana district attorneys oppose a bill that would prohibit prosecutors from putting sexual assault and domestic violence victims in jail in order to compel them to testify in criminal cases against their perpetrators.
Workplace wellness programs have become an $8 billion industry in the U.S. But a study published Tuesday in JAMA found they don’t cut costs for employers, reduce absenteeism or improve workers’ health.
New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, who introduced a bill to ban employers from testing job candidates for pot. It passed the city council and is likely to get Mayor Bill de Blasio's signature.
Households being helped by Denver's first-of-its-kind program that uses public and private money to subsidize rent for low-income people. It has been running for almost two years.
Arkansas will join 33 other states that offer the presumption that cancer is linked to a firefighter's duties and will provide a disability benefit, according to the First Responder Center for Excellence.
Kansas will be taking steps toward allowing farmers to grow hemp for industrial use under a measure Gov. Laura Kelly signed into law Monday.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed a sweeping oil and gas bill on Tuesday as Boulder County officials and lawmakers celebrated a bill that will give local governments more control over drilling and mandate state regulators emphasize public safety
Mississippi Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill Tuesday to give teachers and assistant teachers a $1,500 pay raise during the year that begins July 1.
Yuma is the first border city in the U.S. to declare a state of emergency as part of its response to the latest surge in the number of migrant families reaching the U.S.-Mexico border to seek asylum.
A desire to live near nature is embedded in California's ethos, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday as he explained why he doesn't want to block home building near forested areas at high risk for wildfires.
A few years ago, Denver civic leaders and city officials started to brainstorm a partnership with employers and building owners that, they hoped, would bring rents in good-quality, market-rate housing within the reach of more workers.
Maximum amount that Florida law allows government agencies to pay in lawsuits. The Broward County School Board argues that would be the total payout for all victims of the Parkland shooting, but the parents are challenging the sovereign-immunity law -- and how it applies when there are multiple victims -- in court.
Tweet after former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld announced that he will run against President Trump for the 2020 Republican nomination.
Dozens of people have asked Unified Police of Salt Lake County to keep them, including some whose loved ones have been shot by police.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday signed into law a bill that bars local governments from establishing so-called right-to-work zones, another rebuke to his Republican predecessor, who blocked similar legislation as he battled with Democratic lawmakers over his pro-business, union-weakening agenda.
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