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Charlotte won its second national convention in a decade Friday, kicking off two years of planning, fundraising and anticipation.
An email from Julie Ezell, to Julie Ezell. The then-top lawyer at the Oklahoma Health Department was charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor for posing as a medical marijuana advocate and reporting fake threats to law enforcement.
Tennesseans with Confederate flags on their license plates as of June -- a number that has been rapidly rising since a white supremacist killed nine African-American people at a Charleston, S.C., church in 2015.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson called for state Rep. Mickey Gates to resign Tuesday as the Hot Springs Republican faces criminal charges of failure to pay state income taxes.
Dental and vision care benefits will be restored for hundreds of thousands of Medicaid recipients in a sudden reversal by Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's administration following an outcry over the recent cuts.
Breaking a nearly three-week impasse, lawmakers agreed Wednesday to a $41.8 billion budget that jettisoned dozens of proposed policy changes that had snarled negotiations, including a plan to curb state cooperation with federal immigration crackdowns.
In a victory for Mayor Kenney and his signature programs, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld Philadelphia's controversial tax on soda and other sweetened beverages.
The Environmental Protection Agency should have reacted much more quickly and forcefully to the Flint water crisis, even if it meant asserting emergency authority over the Michigan Department of Environment Quality, according to report released today the EPA's Office of Inspector General.
The Trump administration is taking a new step forward on its plan to impose work requirements in Kentucky’s Medicaid program, despite a federal judge blocking the move last month.
Eight months pregnant, the drug sales representative wore a wire for the FBI around her bulging belly as she recorded conversations with colleagues at a conference in Chicago. Her code name? Pampers.
Maryland lawmakers have introduced two U.S. House bills seeking to better safeguard election systems following the disclosure that a state election software vendor had ties to a Russian investor.
The GOP-controlled House on Thursday eliminated new funding for states to strengthen election security, drawing protests from Democrats who said Republicans are not doing enough to prevent Russian meddling.
Republican Gov. Charlie Baker signed a bill that places Massachusetts among a growing number of states making it hard to not be registered.
Smart cities are paying more attention to the fixtures that define their streets, looking to improve mobility and maximize the value of these assets.
Many are tapping into tax revenues, making hospitals help, or adding work requirements and premiums to account for their increasing share of the expansion bill. In some, the debate is so heated that it's ended up in court.
There are things union-friendly states could do -- and some things they shouldn't.
The Property Assessed Clean Energy loan program has come under attack, but its benefits are clear.
Year that Republican Bobby Wilson, an Arizona state Senate candidate, shot and killed his mother, which he revealed at a gun control event where he advocated against gun control legislation and for arming more "good guys."
If the Affordable Care Act’s protections for people with preexisting medical conditions are struck down in court, residents of the Republican-led states that are challenging the law have the most to lose.
With the addition of Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court could have a conservative majority to strike down bans on semiautomatic weapons in liberal states and to decree that law-abiding Americans have a right to carry a gun in public.
The former top lawyer at the Oklahoma Health Department was accused Tuesday in a criminal charge of sending threatening emails to herself in an attention-seeking ploy.
The state Supreme Court decided Wednesday that California will remain intact geographically, at least for now, while it decides whether the voters can consider a proposal to divide the Golden State into three new states.
President Donald Trump gave Secretary of State Brian Kemp his "full and total endorsement" Wednesday in Georgia's Republican race for governor, dealing Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle a devastating blow in a bitter runoff.
The Cuomo administration has opened an investigation into whether President Trump and his charitable foundation violated state law, two officials confirmed Wednesday night.
Police say three state workers have been taken to a hospital after becoming ill in their Albany office when one of them opened a letter from a foreign country.
The Environmental Protection Agency has changed a rule requiring cleanup of ponds holding coal mining waste to give states more flexibility and postpone the deadline to close facilities that have contaminated the surrounding groundwater.
Philip Alston, the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, as he toured a county in Alabama where hookworm, a tropical disease that's largely been eradicated in most developed countries, has been detected. The county suffers from poor sewage systems that leave many residents with open pits of human waste in their yards or raw sewage backing up into their homes after heavy rains.
States are stepping up their election security but face many challenges: a president still skeptical of Russian interference, a lack of money, and reliance on private vendors for voting equipment and software, to name a few.
Lead that U.S. Rep. Ron DeSantis has in Florida's GOP race for governor, according to a new poll. President Trump endorsed him, and the respondents who knew that overwhelmingly support DeSantis while the respondents unaware of Trump's backing overwhelmingly support his opponent, state Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam.