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Counting prisoners as residents of their hometowns would, for the most part, boost the legislative representation of Democratic-leaning urban areas with large minority populations while diminishing the power of Republican, mostly white rural areas.
Medicaid health plans are starting to pay for non-traditional services such as meals, transportation, housing and other forms of assistance to improve members’ health and reduce medical costs.
Federal regulations neither require schools to test their water nor have a single health standard for drinking water. The resulting patchwork of state policies can have a big impact on how -- and whether -- they respond to lead found in water.
Scott Dozier, a death-row inmate in Nevada, a few months before he was found hanging in his cell over the weekend. His execution requests were repeatedly blocked, most recently by a lawsuit from the drug manufacturer whose products would have been used to kill him.
Average monthly rate of teachers and other public education employees quitting their job in the first 10 months of 2018, which is the highest rate on record.
Segregation statistics for downstate Illinois metro areas.
Retiree health care is one of the fastest-growing line items in government budgets and, in response, some governments are scrapping their traditional health plans.
New Jersey’s minimum wage is at $8.85 an hour, barely changed from when Phil Murphy was elected.
It was the second time a man was found dead at Ed Buck's apartment. Buck is a longtime political donor, a one-time West Hollywood City Council candidate and a well-known figure in LGBTQ political circles.
At issue is whether United Teachers Los Angeles -- in setting the strike for Thursday -- gave the Los Angeles Unified School District a legally required 10-day notice that its members would stop working under the existing contract.
Scott Dozier, the convicted murderer who had all but begged Nevada authorities to execute him for years, was found dead in his death row cell over the weekend, authorities said.
Katie Brennan is seeking damages and emergency relief that bars the state from enforcing a confidentiality order against her as part of a new investigation into her statements that she has felt professional backlash since going public with her rape allegation.
PG&E Corp. stock dived more than 20% Monday morning on reports that the California utility could face at least $30 billion in liability related to fires and has considered filing for bankruptcy protection.
The District’s Department of Public Works has dispatched extra workers to pick up the federal government’s garbage. And for the most part, the city’s federal properties are pretty clean.
As the partial government shutdown extends into its third week, the Department of Agriculture won't say how long it can keep paying out food stamp benefits for the nearly 39 million people who depend on the program each month.
Cyntoia Brown, now 30, will have her life sentence commuted. She will be released to parole supervision on Aug. 7 after serving 15 years in prison.
Metro area and county statistics on numbers of pedestrian deaths in dark, daylight and other lighting conditions.
Now former California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown, after releasing his final budget last year. On Monday, Gavin Newsom was sworn in as Brown's successor.
Last time South Dakota lawmakers received a pay raise -- until this year when their pay nearly doubled from $6,000 to $11,300.
Within an hour of being elected California's 40th governor, Gavin Newsom cast the occasion as not just a win, but also a watershed.
The Florida Senate paid $900,000 to settle a complaint filed by a high-ranking staffer who alleged she was retaliated against for accusing a former senator of sexual harassment, according to documents released by the Senate President Thursday. As part of the agreement, the aide, Rachel Perrin Rogers, is resigning.
Alabama’s employee pension fund, with nearly 360,000 members and some $44 billion in managed assets, has become sole owner of one of the largest chains of local U.S. newspapers, the company said Thursday.
A stretch of Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu will remain closed until Monday as crews continue to clean up mud and debris from the highway after a winter storm moved through the area, triggering a mudslide and prompting flash flood warnings overnight in burn areas in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
Change is coming to men's restrooms in New York -- and it's going to be a big help to fathers all over the state.
On her third day as governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that New Mexico will drop the oft-maligned PARCC exam after the current school year -- if not sooner.
Buried within the multitude of volumes that encompass Pennsylvania laws is a 176-year-old statute that is rarely used.
The Supreme Court agreed Friday to review highly partisan election maps drawn by Republicans in North Carolina and Democrats in Maryland, and decide whether such political gerrymandering violates voters' rights to a fair election.
The fourth annual GovTech 100 list will be released this week.
Maryland Comptroller Peter Franchot, a Democrat, criticizing fellow Democrat Mike Miller, the nation's longest-serving state senate leader.
Millennials who won state legislative seats in November, which marks the largest new class of that generation. Nearly 800 ran.
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