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Two Pennsylvania agencies are collaborating to provide them with the skills to succeed and avoid re-incarceration.
Using a study from a team of independent researchers, officials in Puerto Rico said they're raising the official death toll from Hurricane Maria to 2,975 from 64.
Whether it's drones or flying cars, aerial innovation is happening. Governments need to think about regulation and strategy.
Federal R&D centers have had a large role in everything from air safety to renewable energy. We need their expertise to deal with today's risks.
The Tallahassee mayor's win in the Democratic primary for governor is one of the year's biggest upsets. Can a progressive beat a Trump-endorsed candidate in this red state?
Rick Wilson, a Republican strategist, on whether the president's support will help or hurt Congressman Ron DeSantis in the Florida governor's race.
Last time, before Tuesday, that an on-duty police officer was convicted of murder in Dallas County, Texas. Roy Oliver was found guilty in last year's killing of Jordan Edwards, an unarmed black 15-year-old.
The areas’s flood infrastructure is being cleaned up and upgraded in small ways, but systemic overhaul remains years away, as comprehensive studies and hundreds of lawsuits progress.
In 161 cases, schools or districts attested that no incident took place or couldn't confirm one.
Unlike other cities that have created immigrant defense funds since Trump took office, Washington does not use tax dollars to help undocumented adults once they are detained by federal authorities and face deportation.
Tulsa businessman Kevin Stitt has won the Republican nomination for governor.
Analysts believe longtime educator David Garcia will have a better-than-usual chance in the Nov. 6 general election, after the #RedForEd teacher walkout raised doubts about Doug Ducey's dedication to public education.
Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed put the blueprints up for sale. Wilson said Tuesday morning that a few hundred blueprints for guns had already been sold since the judge issued the injunction Monday.
Andrew Gillum, a 39-year-old liberal who with the help of progressive political organizations surged in the last weeks of his campaign to upset a better-funded field.
California will become the first state to let people leave jail before trial without having to post bail, under a law signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday.
The last time an on-duty police officer in Dallas County was convicted of murder was in 1973. Oliver could be sentenced to life in prison.
The portfolio of Florida Gov. Rick Scott and his wife, Ann Scott, includes earnings last year of at least $2.9 million in two dozen hedge funds registered in the Cayman Islands, a well-known tax haven for U.S. and foreign investors.
In a year when the Trump administration is dialing back financial regulations, Colorado becomes the 16th state to limit the notoriously high interest rates on payday loans.
Jon Fowlkes, who considered suicide after his doctor -- under pressure to limit opioid prescriptions -- abruptly cut off his medication for back pain from a motorcycle crash decades ago that left him nearly paralyzed. He eventually found another doctor willing to prescribe him painkillers.
Time the state of Kansas neglected to notify hundreds of residents that their drinking water supply had been contaminated with dry cleaning chemicals.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) threw its weight behind the National Rifle Association (NRA), filing an amicus brief on the gun rights group’s behalf in its lawsuit against New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).
Massachusetts officials are moving to set up an independent audit unit that will oversee the State Police after a series of scandals tarred the law enforcement agency.
A week before the start of the new college semester, more than 30,000 adults had applied for the scholarship according to state education officials.
The state allowed hundreds of residents in two Wichita-area neighborhoods to drink contaminated water for years without telling them, despite warning signs of contamination close to water wells used for drinking, washing and bathing.
Former House Speaker Mike Hubbard was convicted in 2016 on the 12 counts and sentenced to four years in prison. He has been free on bond pending his appeal.
A panel of federal judges turned the tables on North Carolina's upcoming congressional elections Monday by reaffirming an earlier ruling that the state's U.S. House districts stem from unconstitutional, partisan gerrymandering aimed at helping Republican candidates.
Officials said then that a spate of well-publicized voting machine problems — including glitches that left some candidates off of ballots or displayed the wrong slate of ballot choices — only affected a small handful of voters.
A proposal to expand Medicaid in Nebraska moved closer Friday to getting on the November ballot after the state’s top elections official determined there are enough valid signatures to send the question to voters.
A federal judge in Seattle issued a preliminary injunction Monday against a self-proclaimed "crypto-anarchist," blocking the Texas man from publishing downloadable internet blueprints for producing 3D-printable guns.
Average cost to taxpayers of California's high-speed rail project, which is the highest of any U.S. infrastructure project in recent history. The latest spending plan raises that number to $27 million.
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