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Can Alabama’s capital honor both civil rights and the Confederacy? It thinks so.
The state rolled back criminal justice reforms it had adopted only a year earlier. Other parts of the country are also reconsidering similar changes.
Most leaders and some members of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, including at least one Republican, backed out of a planned infrastructure meeting with the president on Wednesday.
Hannes Zacharias helped his Kansas county win national recognition for a variety of programs. The county commissioners had nothing but praise for him. Then they fired him.
The disease has claimed 13 veterans’ lives since 2015 and may effect the governor’s reelection chances this year.
Even though the project will cost $2.8 billion more than planned, Gov. Jerry Brown still thinks it's worth it: "It'll last for 100 years, after all you guys are gone."
They largely serve minority students, but supporters say that’s not a problem -- it’s actually the point.
Expenses in different regions are diverging more now than in the recent past.
The Alabama House of Representatives Tuesday evening approved a bill that would end special elections for the state's two U.S. Senate seats when vacancies occur.
Twenty-three cities and states are facing subpoenas if they do not prove they are complying with federal immigration laws regarding sanctuary cities in a "timely manner," the Justice Department announced Wednesday.
Washington state Rep. Drew Hansen, who introduced a wide-reaching net neutrality bill that would maintain all the protections the FCC rolled back. The question of whether states have the right to do that will likely end up in court.
The firings follow a long and ongoing saga between independent agencies and the GOP-controlled legislature.
School shootings in the U.S. since Jan. 1 of this year -- the most recent being on Tuesday in Benton, Ky., where a 15-year-old killed two students and injured 12 other people.
Billionaire investor J.B. Pritzker and state Sen. Daniel Biss tried to change the dynamics of the Illinois Democratic governor's race Tuesday night, attacking each other during the first televised debate and relegating businessman Chris Kennedy largely to the sidelines.
Gov. Paul LePage has nominated a Nestle Waters' executive to the body that oversees environmental protection in Maine, drawing the ire of the company's critics.
After a year in which overdoses outstripped the murder rate by 4-1, librarians ran outside to save people from overdosing, and makeshift heroin camps sprawled under bridges and on street corners, Philadelphia city officials Tuesday took their most radical step yet against the opioid crisis.
San Francisco has a new interim mayor: moderate Supervisor Mark Farrell.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to remove Christopher Columbus' name from his commemorative day in October, and instead honor the indigenous people living in California long before it was discovered by European explorers.
In his Democratic race for Maryland governor, Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker’s latest endorsement comes from his neighboring county’s executive.
A second woman has accused Wyoming Secretary of State Ed Murray of sexual misconduct. Theresa Sullivan Twiford said that nearly 30 years ago, when she was 18 years old and babysitting for the Murray family, Ed Murray forcibly kissed her in front of his house.
For the first time in seven years, Flint's local officials are in control of the city's daily finances and government decisions.
The South and the West continued to outpace the rest of the country as overall job growth slowed in 2017.
The Jackman Select Board voted unanimously on Tuesday morning to fire the town manager, whose support of racial segregation and condemnation of Islam put the town in what most locals saw as an unflattering light.
A drug wholesaler flooded Kentucky counties with millions of prescription painkillers even as overdose deaths were on the rise, state Attorney General Andy Beshear charged in a lawsuit filed Monday in Franklin Circuit Court.
President Donald Trump's now disbanded voter fraud commission sought voter records from Texas state officials that flagged Hispanic voters, The Washington Post reported Monday.
With New Jersey's announcement that it will rejoin a multistate compact to limit carbon emissions, 2018 could be a banner year for cap and trade in the states -- even if the idea is dead in Washington.
Some say South Florida's Brightline can serve as a model for infrastructure development. But first, it has to be completed and prove it can make money.
The president's "America First" message and his new trade barriers have caused anxiety in states where the economy depends on investment from abroad. It's pushing governors to hone their diplomatic skills.
Public-sector unions are becoming more altruistic. They may need to be.
Time between Hawaii Gov. David Ige learning that the nuclear attack notification was false and alerting the public. The reason for the delay? He did not know his Twitter password.
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