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About 58 inmates are attempting to sue the state of Iowa over the recent ban of pornography in prisons, claiming it violates their constitutional rights.
The Illinois law is widely thought to be the strongest in the nation.
Four St. Louis police officers were indicted Thursday on federal charges claiming that three of them beat an undercover colleague during protests last year and all four then covered it up, federal prosecutors say.
New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal has issued a sweeping directive to state, county and local law enforcement agencies to limit the type of assistance their officers can offer to federal immigration authorities.
The farm bill will reauthorize the nation's nearly $900 billion in food and agriculture programs for another five years.
The Trump administration wants states to innovate in ways that could produce more lower-cost options, even if those alternatives do not provide the same level of financial or medical coverage as an ACA plan.
New transportation options that make increasing demands for curb and sidewalk space call for innovative regulatory approaches.
Despite political divisions, they understand how important it is for improving their lives and their communities.
As studies from Missouri show, there are good and bad ways to measure the impact of this economic development tool.
Children who have became uninsured in 2017, the first time the children's uninsured rate has risen since at least 2008.
Graphic images galvanized the civil-rights movement and opposition to the Vietnam War. That's what we need to get serious about gun control.
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, a Republican
Platte County, Mo., is being punished for its resistance to bailing out a retail center that opened during the recession and has struggled to make bond payments.
Gov. Paul LePage is continuing to fight Medicaid expansion in court, filing another motion to delay the case only five weeks before Gov.-elect Janet Mills will take over, reverse course and implement the expansion.
Kenneth Wagner, a senior official at the Environmental Protection Agency with close ties to former state attorney general Scott Pruitt, is Gov.-elect Kevin Stitt's appointment for secretary of energy and the environment, the governor-elect's transition office announced Wednesday.
The compilation of industry-supplied reports from 24 coal plants highlights how federal and state officials have failed for decades to hold corporations accountable for the millions of tons of ash and other harmful byproducts created by the burning of coal to generate electricity.
Eric Bauman, the powerful chairman of the California Democratic Party, made crude sexual comments and engaged in unwanted touching or physical intimidation in professional settings, 10 party staff members and political activists said in interviews with The Times.
State officials, with the help of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, are still working out the details. If they move forward with the strategy, other arid states may follow New Mexico’s lead.
The indictment charges Faramarz Shahi Savandi, 34, and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri, 27, with launching cyberattacks using malware known as SamSam to freeze data on computers. The men then demanded payment in digital currency known as Bitcoin to unlock the data.
After years of steady decline, the number of U.S. children without health insurance rose by 276,000 in 2017, according to a Georgetown University report released Thursday.
The city of Baltimore sued the Trump administration Wednesday over changes the State Department made to the way it weighs the use of government benefits by potential immigrants and their families when deciding to issue visas.
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.
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