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San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee died early Tuesday morning at age 65, his office said.
Mark Geragos, an attorney representing the family of David Shaver, an unarmed man who was fatally shot by a Mesa, Ariz., police officer while he crawled on the ground -- at the officer's request -- and pleaded not to be shot. The encounter was caught on body cameras, but the jury found the officer not guilty of murder or manslaughter.
Acres that six wildfires had burned in Southern California as of Sunday, which is larger than New York City and Boston combined.
Milwaukee's program focuses on quick, cost-effective improvements that give its streets years more service.
Debbie Walsh says the wave of women elected this year is a sign of bigger things to come.
The bill signed by President Trump helps states keep the Children's Health Insurance Program afloat, but it doesn't offer any reassurance that kids won't lose their health care in 2018.
Negotiators for Oakland's largest union and the city will head back to the bargaining table Monday, but the strike that's shut down major services for the past week will continue.
Protesters greeted President Donald Trump in the Mississippi capital Saturday as he came to speak at the opening of a civil rights museum.
Body Cameras Show Cop Fatally Shoot an Unarmed Man Crawling on the Floor. The Officer Was Acquitted.
The man knelt in the hotel hallway and pleaded with the officers: "Please do not shoot me."
Idaho state Rep. Paulette Jordan announced Thursday that she's running for governor in 2018, with the goal of helping Idaho become "the state it's destined to become."
Republican venture capitalist John Cox called for an end to one-party domination of state politics and a smaller government as he made his pitch to be California's next governor Thursday at a Public Policy Institute of California speaker series.
Gov. Jerry Brown surveyed the devastation Saturday in Ventura -- the area hardest hit by firestorms that have displaced nearly 90,000 people in Southern California -- calling it "the new normal."
With Congress closing in on a final tax cut bill, 21 Republican governors from across the country sent a letter Thursday to House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) asking them to finish the job.
After several private companies tried -- and failed -- to deliver on-demand group transit, some cities are now building those services themselves.
The state has passed unprecedented regulations to protect borrowers from taking on debt they can't afford to pay back.
Schenectady County, N.Y., is on track to pay 20 percent less on prescription drugs for its employees this year than in 2003.
They say their economies could suffer if the FCC repeals net neutrality regulations.
The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services is ending a high-profile program that used computer data mining to identify children at risk for serious injury or death after the agency's top official called the technology unreliable.
The Trump administration has begun the process of tightening welfare programs. Many conservative states have been waiting for a moment like this for years.
Maine Gov. Paul LePage, denying reports -- which he called "fake news" -- that he might challenge U.S. Sen. Angus King at the request of President Trump.
State lawmakers nationwide who have reported income or employment outside of their elected position. According to an investigation by the Center for Public Integrity and the Associated Press, "state lawmakers around the country have introduced and supported policies that directly and indirectly help their own businesses, their employers and sometimes their personal finances."
California and 13 other states sued the Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for ignoring an Oct. 1 deadline to update the nation's map of areas with unhealthy smog levels, saying the delay is endangering children and people who suffer from lung disease.
Gov. Paul LePage said Thursday that despite a report this week by the Washington Post, he will not run for the U.S. Senate against independent incumbent Angus King.
Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton is expected to appoint his lieutenant governor and close ally, Tina Smith, to Al Franken’s seat, three people familiar with the Democratic governor’s thinking said.
Michigan could end up being the only state in the country where legislators pass and reject laws without the public knowing about their personal finances, a distinction that good government watchdogs say is an embarrassment that must be changed.
Houston entrepreneur Andrew White, son of the late Gov. Mark White, announced Thursday he is running as a conservative Democrat against Republican incumbent Gov. Greg Abbott.
Even before the dramatic Southern California wildfires began their harrowing path this week, California was already experiencing its deadliest and most destructive fire season ever.
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