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Smith County, which encompasses Tyler and is home to more than 225,000 residents, has the highest suicide rate among the state’s 25 most populous counties.
The Missouri General Assembly has taken the historic step of calling itself back into special session to decide whether to impeach Gov. Eric Greitens.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has announced he intends to make Connecticut the first state to participate in a national database aimed at identifying racial bias in policing.
Declaring "all innocent life is precious and sacred," Gov. Kim Reynolds on Friday afternoon signed legislation that is described as the nation's most restrictive abortion law.
The flow of lava intensified Sunday from ongoing eruptions at Hawaii Island's Kilauea volcano, and molten rock is pouring from fissures that opened overnight, farther from the original eruptions.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra. California and 16 other states plus Washington, D.C. are suing the Trump administration to prevent it from weakening Obama-era vehicle emissions standards. The state currently has 32 lawsuits pending against the administration.
The amount of Detroit's liabilities it was able to unload in its historic bankruptcy. The city finally emerged from state financial oversight last week, five years after it declared what was then the largest municipal bankruptcy in history.
Five months after a sex and blackmail scandal broke, Gov. Eric Greitens will resign facing potential criminal charges. His replacement, a conservative with good lawmaker relations, is likely to achieve what Greitens could not.
Hawaii lawmakers passed a bill Tuesday that would prohibit the sale of over-the-counter sunscreens containing chemicals they say are contributing to the destruction of the state's coral reefs and other ocean life.
Maine lawmakers overrode Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of an adult-use marijuana regulatory bill Wednesday, putting the state on track to regulate a retail market that has been in limbo since voters legalized recreational marijuana use in 2016.
Boulder — a city where a local bank once handed out rifles to customers — is about to pass a law far less friendly to firearms.
The Arkansas Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared election officials to enforce the state's controversial voter-ID law in this month's primary and judicial elections.
Educators long complained that the state shorted public schools, but a booming economy is helping Gov. Nathan Deal and lawmakers keep that from happening again in the upcoming year.
Hawaii's famed Kilauea volcano, which has been erupting continuously since 1983 and has long been a destination for tourists, underwent a new eruption Thursday that threatened neighborhoods with red lava on the eastern edge of Hawaii Island, prompting evacuations.
Seventeen states and Washington, D.C., sued the Trump administration to prevent it from weakening Obama-era auto emissions standards.
Mayor Bill de Blasio is championing a plan that would make New York City a pioneer in creating supervised injection sites for illegal drug users, part of a novel but contentious strategy to combat the epidemic of fatal overdoses caused by the use of heroin and other opioids.
Data now informs almost everything the public sector does, and it also informs on us.
Progress comes two ways to cities: in inches or in great leaps. Both are needed, but they follow different paths.
When both unemployment and wages are low, it's going to be difficult for employers to find the workers they need. They need to understand that from the outset.
It's obsolete and costs taxpayers billions, yet its ridership and productivity continue to decline.
The total overall pay raise Arizona teachers will be receiving over a two-year period. Teachers in the state have walked out of class all week to protest low pay and low school funding. Late Wednesday night into early Thursday morning, the state legislature finally approved a pay raise deal for some (though not all) teachers. Gov. Doug Ducey signed the deal right away. The deal did not provide for new education funding or raises for non-instructional school staff, frustrating teachers. But most will reportedly end the strike to avoid jeopardizing public support.
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, also the current Georgia secretary of state. Kemp ran an ad in which he points a gun at a teenage boy who's interested in one of his daughters. The ad caused backlash, even among some gun owners. Others thought Kemp was simply being playful in highlighting his pro-gun stance and his protectiveness over his daughters. So far, Kemp has refused to apologize for or back away from the ad.
Arizona lawmakers pulled an all-nighter to enact a budget Thursday that provides big raises for many of the state's striking teachers, and Gov. Doug Ducey signed the teacher funding part while the House continued debating the rest of the state's $10.4 billion budget plan.
The fired executive director of the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System was charged Tuesday with seven felony counts stemming from allegations he disguised personal vacations as business trips.
Nebraska's prisons director doesn't want to talk publicly about his department's lethal injection protocol — how he developed it or where he got the drugs to carry out the death penalty intended, so far, for two condemned prisoners.
The Motor City still has massive debt and pension obligations. Remaining independent will involve a precarious balancing act.
A federal judge forcefully slapped down North Dakota’s efforts to fight his ruling that loosened the state’s voter identification law Monday.
Political candidates have long appeared with guns in campaign ads — holding guns, firing guns, and even assembling guns blindfolded. Earlier this month, Georgia gubernatorial candidate Hunter Hill aired an ad showing him loading an assault rifle. The video title? “Liberals won’t like this.”
Gov. Eric Greitens ran an off-the-books political campaign as early as 2014, took a charity donor list to raise campaign funds and ultimately lied about that list in a signed statement to the state's ethics commission, according to documents and testimony from six of his former employees.
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