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Infrastructure Investments Matter More in Aging Cities
The reasons spotlight cities' funding and workforce struggles that cybersecurity experts have warned about for years.
In this year's class, even the weakest-performing governors are surviving.
Maryland state Del. Clarence Lam, who sponsored legislation that will protect police officers from liability when administering the drug that reverses overdoses to drug-sniffing dogs who have been exposed to fentanyl, which can be absorbed through the skin and fatal in a "microscopic amount."
Time that Hawaii would have to warn the public about a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile attack on the island. In November, the state will start running monthly tests with air raid warning sirens as part of a larger preparedness plan.
A federal judge ruled Monday against a privacy organization's effort to halt the nationwide request for voter information made by Kris Kobach.
Several cities have intensified their efforts to combat rat infestations. It’s no simple task.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. — Looking out a fourth-floor window of his hospital system’s headquarters, Alan Levine can see the Appalachian Mountains that have defined this hardscrabble region for generations.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday called on Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and MTA officials to "step up" and solve the city's subway woes.
One of the four Republican candidates running for governor of Ohio said she intends to be the Buckeye State's first elected woman governor.
It is illegal for offices to hold people based solely on their immigration status, the highest court in Massachusetts said in a ruling released Monday.
Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner has summoned lawmakers back to Springfield for a special session Wednesday after Democrats who control the General Assembly did not meet his noon Monday deadline to send him an education funding formula bill crucial to getting state money distributed for the upcoming school year.
Gov. Christie on Friday signed into law legislation that raises the minimum age for purchasing tobacco products and electronic cigarettes in New Jersey from 19 to 21.
Becoming a law enforcement officer in South Carolina will require psychological testing under a new requirement aimed at weeding out people not suitable for the job.
Starting in November, Hawaii residents statewide will hear an air raid warning siren test that's not been heard since the Cold War: a wailing alert that potentially would be used to warn of a North Korean missile attack.
President Trump, at the first meeting of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, which asked states to share personal data -- including partial Social Security numbers and voting histories -- about all of their voters. Most states rejected part or all of the request, citing concerns about privacy, reduced voter participation and election cybersecurity.
New Yorkers who applied for free college tuition next year under the state's first-in-nation program. About 23,000 people are projected to qualify. After graduation, students must live and work in the state for as many years as they receive the benefit.
Are body cameras working? How well-trained are patrol officers? What can be done to improve public trust in the force and to better combat the city's rising crime?
Local and state government agencies from Oregon to Connecticut say they are using a Russian brand of security software despite the federal government’s instructions to its own agencies not to buy the software over concerns about cyberespionage, records and interviews show.
Frances Russo-Avena won't ever forget her son screaming for help.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson announced Thursday the completion of the Arkansas Public School Computer Network, a high-speed broadband upgrade for every public school in the state.
The Trump administration's attack on legal marijuana, already stymied by large states determined not to roll back the clock, is increasingly confronting an even more politically potent adversary: military veterans.
A Supreme Court ruling about regulating church signs is spurring cities to repeal their anti-begging laws.
Dangerous heat isn't new to Phoenix, but its efforts to keep people safe in triple-digit temperatures are.
Gov. Bill Haslam and other state officials exulted Thursday as Tennessee's unemployment rate sank to its lowest point in recorded state history last month.
State Superintendent Tony Evers has filed paperwork to challenge Gov. Scott Walker in a 2018 race, according to state campaign records.
Attorneys general from 20 states invoked the memory of a conservative icon, the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to make a case that President Donald Trump should defend nearly a million young immigrants who could soon be back in line for deportation.
Karmen Sanone, the secretary for Salt Lake County Recorder Gary Ott. Sanone not only controlled Ott's email, she was also made his legal guardian -- a title his family disputed in court as his health publicly deteriorates.
A Tennessee judge is offering to cut 30 days off inmate sentences if they agree to undergo an elective birth control procedure.
Revenue Colorado has made off marijuana since legalizing retail sale of the drug for recreational use in 2014, according to VS Strategies, a pro-legalization research company. Most of the money goes toward education.
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