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The "sick out" was organized by the group KY 120 United, a reference to the state's 120 counties, which encouraged teachers in a Facebook post Wednesday night to call in sick.
Dozens of New York political, union and business leaders are trying to get Amazon to reconsider its decision to abandon its plans for a major campus in Queens.
While governors are frequently dominant figures in presidential primaries, Inslee is the first sitting or former governor to join the race for the Democratic nomination.
It's the first in the nation to pass a rent control law that covers tenants across an entire state.
A growing number of state agencies -- mostly in places with no paid family leave -- are letting public employees bring their infants to the office.
Ruling from Wake County Superior Court Judge G. Bryan Collins, striking down two laws that voters approved in November that were placed on the ballot by the legislature. Collins justified his ruling on the basis that lawmakers were elected using maps that the Supreme Court deemed unconstitutional.
Kentucky and Illinois are weighing extreme options to reduce their pension debt -- but critics say they could ultimately cost the states more.
Salary for Ohio's new health department head, which is the highest of any cabinet member in the state. The appointee, Amy Acton, was once homeless herself and will now help to reduce homelessness.
Pedestrian deaths continue to climb, even as other traffic fatalities decline. Nearly half of the deaths occurred in just five states.
California's governor was right to put the brakes on a high-speed-rail boondoggle. That doesn't mean that the state should have to return the federal funds it received.
Dr. Amy Acton, 53, who for seven years was an assistant professor in Ohio State University's College of Public Health, will be the director of the 1,100-employee agency, DeWine said.
The lawsuit, brought by Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service, heard evidence that hearing-impaired prisoners had no effective way of talking with their loved ones by phone and couldn't be sure they'd be notified of a prison emergency such as a fire.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. pushed back Wednesday on a new report alleging the company repeatedly delayed planned safety upgrades to a transmission line in the area where California's deadliest and most destructive wildfire started last year.
Dubbed “constitutional carry” by its supporters, the bill passed the Senate on a 40-6 vote with every Republican and one Democrat voting in favor. It already sailed through the GOP-controlled House .
Rep. Amy Nielsen, D-North Liberty, has thrown her support behind U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, who formally announced his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Feb. 1.
Public health experts and officials blame the exemptions as one reason why states are seeing an increased number of cases of measles.
Virginia First Lady Pam Northam, who told her husband not to moonwalk during a press conference about wearing blackface, reportedly handed out cotton to black students on a tour of the governor's mansion.
The new probe indicates widening interest among law enforcement officials into Trump's inaugural, which is also being investigated by prosecutors in New York and New Jersey.
Some states are finding ways to make rules easier to navigate and less costly for business while continuing to protect the public's interests.
The research is clear: Supporting social and emotional development improves academic achievement and behavior.
Unless the government gets both issues under control, public health experts say President Trump will never realize his goal of eradicating HIV.
Increase in the state gas tax being proposed by Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine. “Anything less than that, and our roads are going to start to go downhill,” he says. The federal gas tax is 18.4 cents per gallon and has remained at that level since 1993.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, referring to when the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee wouldn't support his run for U.S. House. Inslee is now eyeing a 2020 presidential run.
After PG&E's bankruptcy and downgrades, S&P says more could follow if the state doesn't reform utility regulations.
Dennis Richardson, the Oregon secretary of state and first Republican elected to the position in three decades, died of brain cancer Tuesday night at age 69.
In a decision that stunned both parties, Judge G. Bryan Collins ruled last Friday that the state's lawmakers don't have the power to pass constitutional amendments. His reasoning traces back to racial gerrymandering.
Google's plan to build a $600 million data center in the central Minnesota city of Becker is drawing support from both renewable energy advocates and local government officials fretting the impending closure of a large, coal-fired power plant.
As part of an ongoing flurry of litigation in federal court here over the state’s bungled citizenship review of its voter rolls, a federal judge on Monday told a handful of Texas counties they may not — for now — purge registered voters or send them letters demanding proof of citizenship.
Republican Adam Kinzinger is a Wisconsin Air National Guard pilot with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He ripped Evers Monday on Twitter and on Fox News for ordering Wisconsin troops to pull out of Arizona.
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