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Akron, Ohio, calls it the Innerbelt National Forest.
Long considered a conservative hero, Wisconsin’s governor is sounding kinder and gentler as he seeks a third term.
Music, film and visual arts are improving the travelling experience.
Government accounting is changing, but we'll still need smart humans in charge.
The new industry-backed regulations are likely to attract lawsuits from state and local government groups that worry they will cost them revenue, make it easier for internet providers to sue them and do little to address the digital divide.
As participants in the City Accelerator initiative, these four cities have created smart, successful programs to better serve their residents.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is defending a state law that requires schoolchildren to say the Pledge of Allegiance by joining a lawsuit that could determine the legality of similar mandates nationwide.
San Francisco's Transbay Transit Center closed on Tuesday during the afternoon rush hour after officials found a cracked six-and-a-half-foot steel beam that supports the rooftop park.
New Hampshire state Sen. Martha Hennessey, who shared her story of sexual assault -- at a Dartmouth College fraternity party in 1976 -- amid allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Value of cocaine hidden in boxes of bananas and sent to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.
Judge Dana Christensen ruled the agency did err by failing to consider how delisting the estimated 750 grizzlies in and around Yellowstone National Park might affect survival of another roughly 1,200 bears in five other recovery areas.
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.
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