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Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced Tuesday her office would cease prosecuting people for possessing marijuana regardless of the quantity or the person's criminal history.
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. and its parent company followed through early Tuesday on their plans to seek bankruptcy protection because of the mounting toll they face from the past two seasons of devastating Northern California wildfires.
The law requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of their clinic. It would leave only one doctor in a single clinic to provide abortions in a state where 10,000 women seek the procedure each year, according to the plaintiffs.
Stacey Abrams has been seen as a rising star in the party since serving as the Democratic leader of the Georgia state General Assembly.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Tuesday that he will not run for president, declining to take a long-shot gamble that Democrats would pick a little-known local official to challenge President Trump.
The Trump administration is considering taking steps to limit the ability of states to block interstate gas pipelines and other energy projects, according to three people familiar with the deliberations.
Ratios of black men to black women serve as proxy for mass incarceration and other socioeconomic issues.
Fires started by equipment from California's three largest utilities over the course of three years.
Since the midterm elections, Republican legislators in California, Kansas and New Jersey have switched to the Democratic party.
The task force will review Ohio law and "make recommendations that will ensure public safety and the accused's appearance at future court hearings, while protecting the presumption of innocence," according to the task force guidelines.
Barely a month before he was hired by the de Blasio administration, the aide, Kevin O’Brien, had been fired from his previous job as a senior adviser at the Democratic Governors Association in Washington for similar reasons, the association confirmed on Monday.
The levy would bring an estimated $1 million into state coffers. But proponents portray the move as a public health initiative as surveys show more young people trying and regularly using electronic nicotine-delivery devices.
The Tennessee Department of Corrections will open military veterans-only housing units at three prisons in February, state Department of Veterans Services Commissioner Courtney Rogers said Friday.
In Washington state, a freshly implemented ballot initiative and a raft of new bills may produce some of the tightest firearms regulations in the US. But standing in the way is a group of rural law enforcement officers who say point blank that they won’t enforce any of it.
After more than a decade of trying, New York legislators on Monday finally passed the Child Victims Act to bolster protections for child sex abuse survivors.
How the state regulates utilities is under growing scrutiny following unprecedented wildfires suspected to have been caused by power line issues, blazes that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed dozens of people.
Two of the most dreaded words in a Midwestern weather forecast — “polar vortex” — returned this week, promising life-threatening low temperatures that could shatter records and plunge much of the region into its deepest freeze in decades.
The state House approved $750 million in tax incentives for the company while teachers protested outside the Capitol.
The parents of at least a quarter of a million kids are at risk of deportation. In case that happens, lawmakers are adding protections -- with bipartisan support -- for the children left behind.
Officials increasingly want to move away from underground waste storage systems, which can leak chemicals that fuel toxic algal blooms.
Voters that Texas may purge because they may not be U.S. citizens. This is the first of what will be a monthly process by the Secretary of State's office of using new technology to identify potential non-citizens who have registered to vote. Voter advocacy groups argue that the method the state is using is problematic.
Mayor Jorge Elorza of Providence, R.I. His remarks were made when the border wall dispute had kept the federal government partially closed for more than a month. Now, the White House and Congress have three weeks to work out a border security deal -- or potentially face another shutdown.
A police officer who shot and killed another officer early Thursday was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action, both felonies.
His legislative focus will be on education. He wants to create an elective course that introduces technical education in middle schools.
The property is expected to open to the public in the fall of 2019. It will be known as the Eagle Creek Wildlife Area.
Unlike in other states, the Virginia march is not expected to extend into a days-long walkout or strike.
Gov. Jay Inslee issued the proclamation Friday, deeming the outbreak of the highly contagious viral infection a "public disaster" affecting the life, health, property and public peace of his state's residents.
Texas Secretary of State David Whitley said working with the Department of Public Safety, his office has been able to identify the potential non-citizens among those registered to vote, including 58,000 who have cast ballots before in Texas elections.
In the nearly three months since elections dogged by accusations of voter suppression, state lawmakers across the country have either filed or pre-filed at least 230 bills that would expand access to the ballot for millions of Americans.
Cities across the country in recent weeks have stepped in to fill shortfalls left by shuttered federal agencies.
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