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Worshippers had filed in for their weekly song and prayer service at First Baptist Church on Sunday when a man clad in black, wearing a tactical vest and carrying an AR-15-style assault rifle, pulled into the parking lot, got out and opened fire. Soon the man made his way inside, and kept shooting, and shooting, and shooting.
The House passed a bill, 242-174, on Friday to renew funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program, community health centers and other public health programs. The legislation passed easily even though many Democrats opposed the measure due to disagreements over the offsets.
Massachusetts on Friday became the first state to ban bump stocks in the aftermath of the Las Vegas shooting that left 58 people dead and hundreds injured.
Gov. Scott Walker framed his bid for a third term Sunday as a continuation of the policies and themes he has championed over the past seven years.
Kentucky House Speaker Jeff Hoover resigned Sunday, a day after rejecting calls to step down by Gov. Matt Bevin and others who said they were disgusted by allegations of sexual harassment against Hoover and three other Republican state lawmakers.
Text on a postcard mailed to residents in Edison, N.J., that calls for deporting two Asian school board candidates. The card also says "Make Edison Great Again," referencing President Trump's campaign slogan.
The teachers union in New Jersey is spending big to unseat the state Senate president.
The city is eliminating short-term jail sentences for low-level misdemeanors. Other cities will undoubtedly be watching the impact.
A list of opioid-related lawsuits filed by states and local governments.
State and local stakeholders were blindsided by an aspect of the tax bill that would eliminate tax-free financing for many large government projects.
The billions in long-term disaster relief dollars that will fund Texans’ recovery from Hurricane Harvey’s devastating blow are still far from reaching state coffers. But there’s already tension brewing over how much federal money should be spent to fix flood victims' homes and how much should go toward repairing government buildings and launching new flood control projects.
State Rep. John Huffman resigned Saturday evening, according to a resignation letter provided by the House Republican Caucus.
The Trump administration and congressional Republicans took a step forward in their attempt to overhaul the US tax code on Thursday by releasing legislation proposing sweeping changes.
A racist attack on two Asian school board candidates in central New Jersey came in the form of a postcard that read, “The Chinese and Indians are taking over our town!”
Motorists can no longer legally drive in the left lane of a multilane roadway, although the Oklahoma Highway Patrol admits the new law will be enforced with discretion -- especially along roadways with heavy congestion or where right lanes are in need of repair.
A legal feud between Republican Maine Gov. Paul LePage and the state’s Democratic attorney general returned to court recently when the governor filed a new complaint alleging his political foe is improperly holding back public records he wants to see.
Gov. John Bel Edwards cannot protect the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people working for state government from discrimination, harassment and firing, Louisiana's First Circuit Court of Appeal ruled Wednesday (Nov. 1). The decision hands Attorney General Jeff Landry, a Republican who challenged the Democratic governor's policy, another notable victory over the governor.
Voters could alter the future of Medicaid, drug prices and abortion in their states.
Ballot language often spurs confusion and lawsuits. Some state election officials are trying to make them easier to understand.
Performance-based contracting has been a best practice in big cities for years. Now some mid-sized municipalities are adopting the approach.
Time it would take Harris County, Texas, to acquire the 3,300 or so homes on its priority buyout list. Hurricane Harvey, meanwhile, damaged at least 69,000 properties.
Ohio GOP Gov. John Kasich, when asked about his wife being in favor of abortion rights, which is in contrast to his party's platform.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
“We cannot have 13 million hungry children in the United States of America,” says Dorothy McAuliffe.
After four sleepless days fighting to keep her home dry during Hurricane Harvey, after losing her car, after nearly getting electrocuted by a fallen electric box as she waded through brown muck in what wound up being the third flood to hit her property in three years, Maurine Howard wants out.
California violates freedom of speech by requiring antiabortion "crisis pregnancy centers" to tell patients that the state makes abortions available at little or no cost, a Riverside County judge has ruled, reopening debate over a law that federal courts had upheld.
Fallout from the sexual harassment scandal at the Illinois Capitol continued Wednesday, as a state senator lost his leadership position and top Democrats scrambled to find a leader for the agency tasked with investigating such complaints after letting the job remain vacant for years.
President Trump’s bipartisan commission on the opioid crisis made dozens of final recommendations on Wednesday to combat a deadly addiction epidemic, ranging from creating more drug courts to vastly expanding access to medications that treat addiction, including in jails.
Former Gov. Roy Barnes' law firm will represent Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp in a lawsuit that a national election transparency advocacy group filed to force the state to overhaul its election system.
