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David Guice, a top North Carolina prisons leader who oversaw an extraordinarily deadly time for the state's correctional officers, is stepping down from his post.
Here in the heart of one of Colorado’s most expensive cities, Isabel Sanchez bought a mobile home seven years ago for just $6,000. Her four-bedroom bungalow now sits on a lot she rents for $355 a month.
Kentucky's registered sex offenders have the constitutional right to use Facebook, Twitter and other online social media, a federal judge ruled Friday.
Gov. Bruce Rauner kicked off his re-election bid Monday with a campaign video featuring the Republican politician clad in a helmet and black leather motorcycle gear, riding his Harley-Davidson alone past a sometimes-desolate landscape of urban, rural and suburban Illinois.
Thousands of Iowans face paying significantly more for their individual health insurance premiums -- or going without coverage -- after a state effort to win federal waivers of some Affordable Care Act provisions to prop up Iowa's collapsing marketplace ended Monday.
Billing Illinois and Chicago as an "extraordinary opportunity for Amazon" to locate its second headquarters, state and city political leaders entered the nationwide competition to land the online retail giant's 50,000 jobs by offering $2 billion in incentives while hinting they were willing to dig even deeper, sources familiar with the bid confirmed Monday.
She helped craft Mike Pence’s conservative approach to expanding Medicaid in Indiana. Now, the CMS administrator is one of President Trump's top contenders to replace Tom Price.
Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, in a letter to the director of President Trump's voter fraud commission, of which he is a member. After learning from a reporter that one of the commission's staffers was arrested for child pornography charges, Dunlap criticized the commission's lack of transparency with its members.
Money North Carolina has set aside to pay TV and movie producers to film in the state next year. It's triple the 2015 amount but more than half as much as it was paying before that when shows like "Homeland" shot there.
The Maine member of President Trump's voter fraud commission has written a pointed letter to its executive director, demanding he be given documents and kept informed about the group's activities and charging that there is "a vacuum of information."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Sunday that he's waiting to hear whether President Donald Trump will support a bipartisan health care proposal before bringing the measure up for a vote.
Alex Roth has gotten into the habit of pulling out his cell phone and showing skeptical friends a screen shot of the classes he'll have to take to get his bachelor of science degree from Northern Michigan University.
The latest evolution of bike-share programs is taking its first Colorado foothold in Aurora.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday will make official what had long been expected, formally announcing his plans to seek a second term as the state's chief executive despite turmoil within his own political party.
Medicaid money can now be used in New Hampshire to pay for sex change surgery deemed medically necessary, after a legislative committee voted 6-4 on Tuesday to approve new rules for the health care program that serves low-income households.
A divided federal appeals court delayed final resolution of the case of a 17-year-old pregnant migrant in federal detention who is seeking an abortion, giving the Trump administration until the end of this month to find a private sponsor who can house her and will allow her to obtain the procedure.
Returning to the campaign trail nine months after he left the presidency, Barack Obama laced into Donald Trump's presidency as dismantling the gains of his two terms in office and taking America backward.
Rental vouchers are only helpful if landlords are willing to take them. All too often, they're not. But what if the government made it less risky?
The public approved changes to how future gas tax money can be spent. But it’s largely a symbolic measure unless lawmakers approve a hike in the state’s gas tax.
Officials want to create more opportunities for women- and minority-owned businesses.
The area that the rash of wildfires afflicting California are now responsible for burning statewide since Sunday, Oct. 8. For the sake of comparison, that area is larger than the 304.8 square miles that comprises all five boroughs of New York City.
New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno on whether she’d appoint Gov. Chris Christie to the U.S. Senate. Guadagno is running for governor, and made the remark during the last debate before the election in November.
St. Louis Public Library found out the hard way about the far-reaching impact of technology threats. In 2017, the library’s technology infrastructure was attacked with ransomware, wreaking havoc on all 700 of the library’s computers. The hackers rendered them useless and prevented all book borrowing.
An amnesty at the city’s three library systems will wipe out fines for all children, allowing 160,000 youngsters whose borrowing privileges had been suspended to check out books again.
Even as D.C.’s economy has boomed and grocery stores in gentrifying neighborhoods have proliferated, the dearth of grocery stores in its poorest wards has remained consistent.
In one of the fastest-paced civic construction jobs in recent U.S. history, hundreds of carpenters, operating engineers and iron workers are rushing to complete repairs to the damaged Oroville Dam spillway. The crews are trying to beat a Nov. 1 deadline and the Northern California rainy season, which once again will begin to fill the massive reservoir behind the nation's highest dam.
California tied Rhode Island and Vermont for the most money lost to online identity theft per capita, 44 times the amount per person of those living in South Dakota, and finished third in average loss amount due to fraud.
Thanks to a U.S. Supreme Court decision, New Jersey residents will soon be free to buy the devices for the first time since 1985. New Jersey was one of only five states that enforced an outright ban on stun guns, which are often marketed by their manufacturers as a non-lethal self-defense tool.
Gov. Gary Herbert says it is unethical for the attorney general to represent both him and the legislature when the two are in conflict, as they are currently on whether Herbert overstepped his authority in setting rules for the 3rd Congressional District special election.
A dramatic increase this year in the number of oaks, manzanita and native plants infected by the tree-killing disease known as sudden oak death likely helped spread the massive fires that raged through the North Bay, a UC Berkeley forest ecologist said Thursday.
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