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Georgetown — located on Winyah Bay, where multiple rivers converge — is expected to see record flooding as a result of Florence, which made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane 11 days ago in Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina.
The company, Defense Distributed, will instead be run by new director Paloma Heindorff, who was introduced at a Tuesday morning news conference.
The General Assembly passed the legislation in its 2018 session to grant the benefit and Republican Gov. Larry Hogan publicized it Tuesday in a news release in which he announced an executive order that adds flexibility to how parents can take the time off.
On registration forms for new students, the state’s school districts now must ask whether a child has ever been referred for mental health services.
Virginia Secretary of Public and Homeland Security Safety Brian Moran said Tuesday on Twitter that he had ordered an "immediate suspension until further review."
City Attorney Pete Holmes filed a motion in April asking the court to take the historic step for all convictions and charges between 1996 and 2010 "to right the injustices of a drug war that has primarily targeted people of color."
Archbishop William E. Lori has told clergy members of the Archdiocese of Baltimore that state authorities are investigating the archdiocese's records related to the sexual abuse of children.
Ten states are demanding the Trump administration abandon a proposed overhaul of the Endangered Species Act.
A new report shows pension plan investments are seeing lower returns and are more volatile than ever.
Only one Republican in the region looks like a certain winner. The rest are at some risk.
Frequency of marijuana arrests, which increased last year, largely because of a rise in consumption busts. Arrests for distribution dropped.
Memo from the Virginia Department of Corrections about its new policy banning women from wearing tampons during prison visits. The department says they could be used to smuggle in drugs or other contraband.
Rep. Matt Manweller became one of the most visible faces of the #MeToo movement as it swept through the statehouse in Olympia, though most of the allegations against him involved his time as a high-school teacher and later a college professor.
In the Texas prison system, toothless and nearly toothless inmates are routinely denied dentures and instead offered blended food — often regular cafeteria meals simply pureed.
The state's Department of Corrections says its new rule is aimed at preventing contraband from being smuggled into its prisons.
Just weeks before the Merrimack Valley explosions, federal pipeline regulators audited the state’s utility commission and raised concerns about attrition among the agency’s inspectors.
The hearing marked the second time that a group of men targeted by Ronald Watts and his tactical team at an affordable housing complex on the South Side had their convictions overturned in a mass hearing.
Hepatitis C kills far more Americans than any other infectious disease.
The increase in marijuana arrests—659,700 in 2017, compared to 653,249 in 2016—is driven by enforcement against people merely possessing the drug as opposed to selling or growing it, the data shows.
Police said in a news release that Hall fired Amber Guyger after an internal investigation found the officer had engaged in "adverse conduct" when she was charged with manslaughter three days after the shooting.
BuzzFeed reported that the meeting is set to take place Tuesday at 10 a.m. between top Department of Justice officials and the attorneys general from Alabama, California, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Nebraska, Tennessee, Utah and D.C.
More than one in five respondents to a survey about sexual harassment at the state Capitol have experienced unwanted sexual contact, uncomfortable visits or phone calls, sexually provocative jokes and stories and other forms of inappropriate workplace behavior.
Immigrants who rely on public benefits for food, housing and medical care could be denied green cards under new rules put forth Saturday by the Trump administration that would in effect limit family-based "chain migration," as the president calls it.
States -- up from 15 last year -- that could not weather a moderate economic downturn without resorting to budget cuts, according to Moody's Analytics.
Kathleen Richardson, a robotic ethics professor who leads the Campaign Against Sex Robots.
Four years ago, lawmakers snuck a term-limits extension onto the ballot. Now, thanks to recent statehouse scandals, voters may roll that back.
Supporters of so-called Marsy's Law hope eventually to amend the U.S. Constitution.
After months of headlines about missing runaways, foster children sleeping in offices and high-profile deaths, this was the last thing the Kansas Department for Children and Families wanted to see.
As part of its promise to make the nation’s capital a welcoming place for immigrants, the District has vowed it won’t turn over arrestees to federal immigration agents unless that person is a convicted violent offender.
After recent media reports of sexual abuse, the agency investigated all Southwest Key facilities and "was unable to substantiate multiple complaints regarding overcapacity, failure to report to law enforcement, staff qualifications, and the safety and care of children at Southwest Key."
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