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The “Year of the Bible” will apparently last 24 months in Kentucky.
Gov. Paul LePage has a history of interpreting the state’s constitution in ways that are later discredited, but that didn’t stop him from lobbing more dubious claims this week.
The seven lucky balls that popped out of the Arizona Department of Health Services lottery machine in October produced big winners — not in the state’s Powerball game, but in the competition to make money in the medical marijuana industry.
Contrary to popular belief, a new study shows there's been almost no progress over the last 70 years.
The Ohio Supreme Court leveled the playing field for DNA testing in murder cases today by ruling part of state law unconstitutional.
Jeffery Beasley, who was accused of covering up and thwarting investigations into human rights abuses in the Florida prison system, has resigned, the Miami Herald has learned.
Uber pulled its self-driving Volvos off the roads in San Francisco on Wednesday, a week after they began picking up passengers, as the Department of Motor Vehicles revoked the cars' registrations.
Brett Parker, an elementary school teacher and rookie politician, was a Democrat running against a Republican incumbent in a Republican state that the Republican presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump, clinched by 20 percentage points.
Under pressure from a pair of open records lawsuits, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that he has used personal email accounts to conduct public business, a practice that allowed him to hide some of his government correspondence from the public since he took office.
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser on Tuesday signed a bill that would allow doctors to prescribe life-ending medication to terminally ill patients.
The North Carolina Senate voted down a repeal of House Bill 2 and adjourned Wednesday after a day of increasingly partisan rancor that pitted conservative Republicans against the Charlotte they so distrust.
There's a lot of capital out there waiting to be deployed, but outdated regulations are standing in the way.
There are both benefits and challenges to a modular, agile approach to modernizing health and human services technology.
In what could be a tumultuous year for state and local finances, these five issues are likely to take center stage.
The latest charges bring the total to 13.
The benefits are among the most generous in the nation.
But voters still support capital punishment laws.
The president says the ban, which also includes parts of the Atlantic, cannot easily be lifted by a successor.
The lethal injection drug remains involved in other legal battles around the country.
Tax cuts and declining oil revenues are to blame.
The decision could affect thousands of low-income women in the state.
The change is designed to reflect the reality of lower recent returns. But it means billions more in contributions from taxpayers and state employees.
A group of states experienced strong gains, while much of the Midwest and Northeast lost residents via migration.
With less people and money, small towns are prone to making big and expensive errors. One company wants to change that.
According to union officials and HR executives around the country.
The Arizona State Board of Education voted to adopt revisions to its Common Core-based K-12 math and reading learning standards Monday.
Hullabaloo about whether any of Maine's four Electoral College electors would defy the will of Election Day voters fizzled Monday afternoon at the State House when three electors voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton and one for President-elect Donald Trump.
A rare uprising took hold of the State House on Monday as rank-and-file lawmakers from both parties killed a controversial bill that would have allowed Governor Christie to cash in on a book-publishing deal and give hefty raises to his Cabinet officers, judges and legislative aides.
In a dramatic response to the expected crackdown on illegal immigration by Donald Trump, Los Angeles leaders on Monday will announce a new $10 million fund to provide legal assistance for immigrants facing deportation.
Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Monday formally announced $13.3 million settlements reached over the past month with family members and surviving victims in a pair of police shootings that left three people dead after Hurricane Katrina, as well as a settlement last summer over a third police killing a month before the storm.
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