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With help from President Trump and other high-profile Republicans, State Treasurer Ron Estes held off a surprisingly strong challenge by Democratic political newcomer James Thompson on Tuesday to win a seat in Congress. Observers in the state say the race was close because of Gov. Sam Brownback’s unpopularity.
Frederick B. Lacey won convictions against mayors, other public officials and Mafia members before becoming a judge whose cases included the French Connection trial.
King County, Wash., Councilmember Dave Upthegrove has put the brakes on a proposed 0.1 percent county-sales-tax increase intended to boost arts, science and culture programs.
Gov. Scott Walker has proposed cutting the Farm to School office, which advocates say has become the gold standard for the farm-to-school movement nationally. The move that would save $132,800 over the biennium.
Portland and Multnomah County's top elected leaders committed Monday to transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2050. But the announcement was light on financial details.
The Tennessee legislature passed a bill that could make it easier for rural areas to get access to the Internet. The bill, named the Broadband Accessibility Act of 2017, was pushed by Gov. Bill Haslam as a way to help the economy in rural Tennessee.
Oregon state lawmakers who fear heightened marijuana enforcement by federal agents overwhelmingly approved a proposal to protect pot users from having their identities or cannabis-buying habits from being divulged by the dispensary shops that make buying pre-rolled joints and "magic" brownies as easy as grabbing a bottle of whiskey from the liquor store.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is suspending a recently adopted practice of reporting cities that don’t cooperate with federal detention efforts after the first few reports were plagued by errors.
The state’s inspector general is investigating complaints that Lt. Gov. Mike Stack, a longtime political player from Philadelphia, and his wife, Tonya, verbally abused members of their state police security detail and household staff at their official residence near Harrisburg. The investigation is said to be at the behest of Gov. Tom Wolf.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted the Environmental Protection Agency’s request Tuesday to delay oral argument in a case over its 2015 smog standard, allowing the agency time to reconsider the Obama-era rule.
Republican Rep. Tom Marino of Pennsylvania will be President Trump's drug czar, according to a report from CBS News. Marino's congressional voting record is that of a hard-liner on marijuana issues, and he recently said that he'd like to put nonviolent drug offenders in some sort of “hospital-slash-prison.”
A lack of serious gubernatorial candidates could be a problem for Democrats not just in Wisconsin but other states where the party is hoping to make gains next year.
New Mexico is the first state to ban the practice. Now the rest have till the end of the school year to adopt an official policy for what happens when parents miss meal payments.
One of the most far-reaching elements of the late state budget passed Sunday will give Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo unprecedented power to cut the spending plan if the State Legislature fails to agree on how to address potential federal aid cuts.
There's a new sheriff in town, and he is out with a stern videotaped message for Lake County heroin dealers: "We are coming for you. Run."
Donald Trump Jr., rumored to be eyeing a move to follow his father's footsteps into politics, will not be a candidate for governor of New York next year but is not ruling out a possible run for office in the future.
Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey became the 54th governor of Alabama on Monday evening, after Robert Bentley pleaded guilty to campaign finance crimes and resigned.
A federal judge ruled Monday for the second time that Texas' 2011 voter identification law was filed with discriminatory intent -- another blow to the state in a six-year legal battle over the legislation.
The news of Robert Bentley's affair with one of his aides broke more than a year ago. But both the governor and his party had reasons for him to stay in office.
Startlingly green hills, surging rivers and the snow-wrapped Sierra Nevada had already signaled what Gov. Jerry Brown made official Friday: The long California drought is over.
The gavel fell, and Alabama's government Monday went to a place it hasn't visited in 102 years.
This map tracks the status of Medicaid expansion across states.
When the Bakken oil boom peaked, and substance abuse spiked along with it, Jim Novelli wished he could have offered substance abuse treatment out of his clinic’s offices near the North Dakota border.
In just the last two months, hackers may have obtained the personal data of millions of job seekers in 10 states that outsource job-search services. In Pennsylvania, Democratic state senators were locked out of their computers for two weeks after a malware attack.
Dallas officials blame computer hacking for setting off emergency sirens throughout the city early Saturday.
What is “lunch shaming?” It happens when a child can’t pay a school lunch bill.
The governor's office estimates that nearly 940,000 families in New York State will be eligible for free public college tuition when the plan is fully phased in.
Ashley Hardin dreamed of being a professional photographer — glamorous shoots, perhaps some exotic travel.
Cities in the infrastructure cohort get ready to reconvene to find innovative answers to pressing questions
Facing the possible end of his political career and potential criminal charges, Gov. Robert Bentley went to God Friday. His attorneys went to court.
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