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Because of local officials’ inadequate enforcement of registration requirements, 1,259 registered sex offenders failed to follow law, Missouri State Auditor Nicole Galloway said.
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey spoke with reporters this morning after a press conference about the state's new Security Operations Center and cybersecurity website.
The high court's decision ends the long-running legal battle to overturn the measure approved by 53 percent of voters in one of the most contentious and expensive ballot fights in state history.
Clinton formally endorsed Pritzker during a Chicago visit in April after he won the Democratic primary by a wide margin.
Among those Democrats to get a shoutout in Obama's latest round of endorsements was Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who's locked in a tight battle for the Florida governor's mansion, and Ben Jealous, who's looking to oust Maryland's Republican governor, Larry Hogan.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday signed a bill into law that makes California the first state to require corporate boards of directors to include women, saying that despite potentially "fatal" legal problems in the measure, it is time to force action.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is not running for re-election against Democrat Beto O'Rourke, but during an early morning interview on national television, it was clear the El Paso Democrat is on Abbott's mind.
In 2016, Coloradoans voted against abolishing slavery as punishment for a crime. This year, they had a change of heart.
The older a state is, according to new research, the more likely it is to have money problems.
Standing water is the perfect breeding ground for one of the South's most plentiful pests.
A Seattle woman says state Sen. Joe Fain raped her in 2007 after a party in Washington, D.C., spurring bipartisan calls Friday for an investigation into one of the state Capitol's most prominent Republican legislators.
Gov. Jerry Brown ushered in a new era of transparency in California law enforcement on Sunday, signing two new laws that for the first time give the public access to internal police investigations and video footage of shootings by police officers and other serious incidents.
Monique Laxalt, a cousin of Nevada's Republican nominee for governor, Adam Laxalt, at a fundraiser for his Democratic opponent that she hosted. Six other family members of Laxalt reportedly attended the fundraiser to support his challenger.
State sex education programs that mention the terms "healthy relationships," "sexual assault" or "consent."
Andrew Gillum's political committee has brought in $3.8 million from people affiliated with the Democracy Alliance of big donors, out of a total of $9.6 million. And the money is still coming in: California billionaire Tom Steyer pledged $5.2 million to Gillum on Wednesday.
Rep. Kiah Morris, D-Vermont, announced the move Tuesday on Facebook and further explained her motivations in interviews this week. Morris represented the town of Bennington.
Statewide, the NRA gave about $1 million in cash and noncash grants to public and private schools from 2010 to 2016, according to a McClatchy review of tax data collected by The Associated Press.
Mandela Barnes, who is black, has accused Republican Gov. Scott Walker of ignoring "people who look like me," said President Donald Trump wants to create "a superior race" and alleged that Republicans are "using the Donald Trump playbook trying to come at me with the most racially excitable things."
The fundraiser for Democratic opponent, Steve Sisolak., was hosted by two of Adam Laxalt's cousins in Reno, Nevada.
On Friday, Attorney General Karl A. Racine of the District of Columbia said in a statement that the new policy "ignores decades of state, federal, and international law."
Ariana Kelly, a delegate in the Maryland state legislature, introduced a bill that would require the state to include consent in sex ed classes.
The Justice Department's suit, filed in federal court in Sacramento, argues that California's approach illegally intrudes on federal jurisdiction.
In the cases the justices will hear this fall, legal observers say "state sovereignty is a really big issue."
Former Massachusetts state Sen. Brian Joyce was found dead at his Westport home, the Bristol County District Attorney's office said Thursday.
The city of Seattle plans to shut down the Licton Springs tiny-house village after March, bringing to an end one of the most controversial city efforts to help house homeless people.
Settlement the ride-sharing company Uber agreed to pay states for taking a year to notify drivers that hackers had stolen their personal information.
Jared Hensley, the athletic director of a Tennessee high school, in a video broadcast to the student body. He was explaining why the dress code forbids students from wearing athletic shorts. He has since been placed on administrative leave.
Employees are the most valuable assets of an organization yet when looking for areas of efficiency and ways to save money, they aren’t always the first to be asked.
The order calls for indigenous place names to be shown on public signs and directs the state's Department of Education to work with several groups to promote the indigenous languages in public schools and universities.
In a Monday ruling, Superior Court Judge Heather Welch gave Gov. Eric Holcomb, who succeeded Pence when Pence became vice president, 30 days to deliver the documents, dating from Nov. 14 to 29, 2016, to Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana.
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