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Austin’s first scooter-related death occurred over the weekend. Police identified the scooter rider as Mark Sands, a 21-year-old UT student from Ireland, who died Saturday, just one day after suffering critical injuries when the electric scooter he was riding collided with a car.
Hawaii state Rep. Richard Creagan, a Democrat, doctor and former smoker, who introduced a bill to incrementally raise the smoking age to 30 in 2020, 40 in 2021, 50 in 2022, 60 in 2023 and 100 in 2024.
A spokeswoman for the governor said 118 Guard troops are currently deployed to the border, including 25 from out of state.
Corruption ranking for Chicago and Los Angeles, based on the number of federal corruption convictions from 1976 to 2016. Local politicians are currently under investigation for corruption in both cities.
Philadelphia now holds about 500 juveniles each day in detention centers spread across the state and beyond, a number that's dropped from about 700 two years ago.
The investigations raise questions not just about who else might be caught up in them, but also about whether there can be any lasting cure for the chronic corruption problems.
Governors' reactions to President Trump's address, which was heavy on immigration but also touched on infrastructure and drug prices, showcased the country’s sharp political divisions.
Numbers of federal workers in each state, broken out by salary level.
Salary for 28 percent of full-time federal employees. Roughly 6 percent make below $40,000.
A person who knows both Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and the woman who accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2004.
Two girls aged 13 and 14 were recently labeled "aggressors" by a Kansas judge who gave a 67-year-old man a reduced sentence for a sexual encounter with the minors.
During the interview, Steve Bullock admitted that he was "naive" to believe that Kevin O'Brien had learned his lesson after being fired from a high-level position with the Democratic Governors Association for sexual harassment. Bullock, the two-term Montana governor, was head of the DGA when the harassment surfaced
The governor's move both clouds the financial picture for Arizonans preparing their 2018 taxes and foreshadows them paying more.
Gov. Phil Scott on Thursday launched an “Infants in the Workplace Program” for children between the ages of six weeks and six months old.
A Hawaii state lawmaker has introduced a bill intended to effectively ban cigarette sales statewide.
A growing chorus of high-ranking Texas officials is calling on the federal government to establish rules that will allow for the flow of $4.3 billion to the state for Hurricane Harvey recovery.
Environmentalists argue that expanding logging could do more harm than good. And forestry experts say the president’s push in a December executive order for more “active management” of public lands — a concept most agree is a good idea — won’t get far unless Congress pays for it.
Worried about a potential Republican primary challenge, President Donald Trump’s campaign has launched a state-by-state effort to prevent an intraparty fight that could spill over into the general-election campaign.
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Lt. Gov Justin Fairfax denied a report Monday that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2004.
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Ralph Northam resigned on TK over his yearbook page, which showed people dressed in blackface and as the KKK. His successor, who will be the state's second black governor, is fighting allegations of his own -- of sexual assault.
A federal three-judge panel on Friday rejected Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson's proposed consent decree to end a gerrymandering lawsuit brought by the Michigan League of Women Voters.
A few hundred thousand federal employees earn relatively low wages, and their numbers vary significantly across states.
Statement from the Democratic Governors Association, referring to a photo on the Virginia governor's medical school yearbook page with one person dressed in blackface and another as a member of the Ku Klux Klan. After initially apologizing for appearing in the photo, Northam backtracked and said he does not believe he is one of the people in it. He has since refused to resign.
Units removed from the rental market in Los Angeles because of home-sharing companies like Airbnb, according to a 2015 study by the Alliance for a New Economy. That's more than 4,000 a year.
Lately, riders are starting to feel less safe on the subway, a belief that is often reinforced by a flood of complaints about the transit system, doled out in real time on social media.
Casey Smitherman, the superintendent of Elwood Community Schools, stepped down Friday, almost a month after she took a 15-year-old student to an emergency clinic after he showed symptoms of strep throat.
Arkansas’ highest court on Thursday said a city can’t enforce its ordinance banning discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, saying it’s already ruled the measure violates a state law aimed at preventing local protections for LGBT people.
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