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In less than four years, St. Petersburg, Fla., has reduced the number of vacant homes by more than 75 percent.
Time a Georgia woman spent in jail because a drug test falsely labeled a bag of cotton candy as methamphetamine.
Illinois Democratic state Rep. Stephanie Kifowit, a veteran, talking about her Republican colleague who criticized a bill that would help families of veterans home residents who died of Legionnaires’ disease. The state's handling of the outbreak is under investigation.
The fresh crop of progressives taking state office next year could shake up the conversations about how to lower the cost of living.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld other parts of the campaign finance law, including a limit of $500 per person per candidate, a $500 contribution limit for non-political-party groups, and a limit on how much money a political party can give to a candidate.
The idea of using the quirky self-defense tool grew out of a training session Police Chief Mark Gordon led in March for faculty members on what they should do if a gunman enters their classroom.
The statute, in effect since June 2016, allows a dying adult patient to take lethal drugs that a doctor has prescribed.
Raimundo Atesiano, the former Biscayne Park police chief who directed his officers to frame innocent black men for a series of unsolved burglaries, admitted he wanted to appease community leaders and polish the village's property crimes record.
State Rep. Tina Davis filed the lawsuit Nov. 19 after losing the race in the state's Sixth District to incumbent state Sen. Richard "Tommy" Tomlinson by just 74 votes. However, at least 216 absentee ballots went uncounted because they were received after the deadline but before Election Day, according to the filing.
Voting rights activists working with Democrat Stacey Abrams filed a sweeping federal lawsuit Tuesday against Georgia election officials, alleging they "grossly mismanaged" the recent midterm, depriving Georgia citizens -- especially those of color -- of their "fundamental right to vote."
Gov. Cuomo is set to head to Washington on Wednesday to meet with President Trump to again push for a new rail tunnel under the Hudson River.
"I am ruling it out," Cuomo said during an appearance on WNYC's "The Brian Lehrer Show." "I ran for governor (in November). I have a full plate. I have many projects. I'm going to be here doing the job as governor."
A bill to legalize recreational marijuana was approved by a House-Senate committee in the New Jersey Legislature Monday, a giant step toward making the cannabis plant and its products available in the state.
Gov. Larry Hogan created an "emergency" commission on Monday to redraw the borders of Maryland's 6th Congressional District, moving ahead on a new map despite state Attorney General Brian Frosh's appeal of a federal ruling that ordered the redraft.
After the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear her appeal, disgraced former Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has exhausted her legal options and must begin serving her jail sentence.
A three-judge appellate panel in Philadelphia on Tuesday affirmed most of the convictions of two onetime allies of former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie charged in the Bridgegate scandal.
Poised to become the state's first female Senate majority leader, state Senate Democratic leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins indicated Monday she will continue a tax on the wealthy.
Ohio will become the first state to accept cryptocurrency for tax payments, beginning this week.
A Paradise Township employee is dead and a man is in custody after a shooting at the municipal building in north-central Monroe County Tuesday morning.
Jeremiah Adler, founder and chief executive of Up(st)art, which leases property in California, then adds bunk beds or stacked, enclosed "sleeping pods," and rents it out for between $695 and $775 a month in neighborhoods where most studios start at $1,000 a month. "This is the future," he says.
Lou Anna K. Simon -- who resigned as MSU president days after her January courtroom appearance -- was arraigned Monday on charges of lying to police about her knowledge of a 2014 incident involving Nassar's abuse of a patient at the MSU Sports Medicine Clinic.
A key state lawmaker said Monday she will push to strengthen Oregon's child death disclosure laws after reporting by The Oregonian/OregonLive exposed delays, omissions and failures by state officials to meet current requirements.
Governor Gina Raimondo set a goal in 2015 to reduce the number of accidental drug overdose deaths by one third in three years, but since then a potent and sometimes lethal opioid has emerged, making it impossible for the state to reach the objective.
Protesters are asking for the Hoover Police Department to release video from the police body cameras and mall surveillance cameras for public review.
Amid California's Housing Shortage, Companies Carve Up Apartments to Pack More People and Lower Rent
Some companies are selling dividing walls or curtains to create new bedrooms. Others are filling rooms with bunk beds. And some -- armed with Silicon Valley backing and a brand of "co-living" -- are offering a variety of sleeping situations and services that make it easier to find roommates and then live with them.
State and federal investigators are trying to find out who hung seven nooses in trees outside the Mississippi Capitol early Monday, a day before a U.S. Senate runoff that has focused attention on the state’s history of racist violence.
Gov.-Elect Gavin Newsom has condemned the use of tear gas by U.S. agents on migrants attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego over the weekend.
The state attorneys general filed a friend of the court brief in support of Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh’s request on Nov. 13 for a court to name Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to the interim role.
Georgia and New Hampshire will elect secretaries of state next week, in a year that has been plagued with claims of voter suppression across the country.
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