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The recount of votes on Maine's contentious marijuana legalization initiative began Monday in Augusta with volunteers slowly hand-sorting through thousands of "Yes" and "No" votes, one by one.
Gov. Chris Christie shot down an attempt to curtail the use of solitary confinement in New Jersey's prisons on Monday, vetoing legislation that would have strictly limited the practice and assailing its key sponsor in a fiery veto message.
Thanks, but no thanks, was the word Tuesday from Ohio Gov. John Kasich about a campaign to switch electoral votes from Donald Trump to him.
When Ashley Hurteau, 32, was arrested in 2015, she faced a list of charges for crimes she committed to finance a drug craving she had struggled with for more than a decade.
Two days after conceding in the North Carolina gubernatorial race, Republican Gov. Pat McCrory plans to meet with President-elect Donald Trump in New York, Trump's transition team announced Tuesday morning.
Hopes for Medicaid expansion, the program intended to bring health coverage to thousands of low-income adults, have died in Wyoming.
Thousands of Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller's followers on social media might believe that terrorists are — in his words —preparing "for their jihad against the state and our nation” from a training compound outside of Houston.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has been re-elected to head the Democratic Governors Association, a job that saw him travel the country this year, raising money, campaigning and speaking at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July, but ended without much success on Election Day.
No government can be fully prepared for every economic twist and turn. Still, some are trying.
Texas county jails have seen a sharp decline in inmate suicides since they began using a revised mental health screening tool last December.
Another Texas Republican elector is objecting to Donald Trump, saying he will not vote for the president-elect.
An overseas tip about an imminent bombing of the Metro Red Line's Universal City station has forced federal and local law enforcement in Los Angeles to swiftly ramp up security across its sprawling transit system, authorities said Monday.
A Supreme Court majority on Monday appeared to lean in favor of Democrats in Virginia and North Carolina seeking to rein in what they call racial gerrymandering by Republican-controlled legislatures in those states.
A jury could not reach a decision on Monday in the murder trial against a former North Charleston police officer accused of shooting a black motorist in the back.
It's one of the many ideas and practices that Craig Fugate, the agency's outgoing leader, hopes the Trump administration will adopt. Among the others: rescuing pets.
Republican North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory announced Monday that he's conceded the election to Democrat Roy Cooper, the state's attorney general, and will support transition efforts.
Current and historical data showing real per capita personal incomes for all metro areas.
When states tried the all-payer model decades ago, it largely didn't live up to its cost-cutting goals. But Vermont is taking a slightly different approach.
The “most wonderful time of the year” may be the hardest for tens of thousands of young people locked up for the holidays.
When Attorney General Maura Healey and other Massachusetts law enforcement officials announced last spring that they were pursuing fraud investigations against the world’s largest oil company, ExxonMobil, former vice president Al Gore called it “the most hopeful step I can remember in a long time” to combat climate change.
A federal judge early Monday morning ordered a recount of Michigan's presidential ballots to begin at noon on Monday, and for the state to "assemble necessary staff to work sufficient hours" to complete the recount by a Dec. 13 federal deadline.
The Army Corps of Engineers on Sunday denied permission for the Dakota Access pipeline to cross under a section of the Missouri River, handing at least a temporary victory to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and its supporters.
Teachers and staff in the Hillsboro School District will have to come up with something a little extra creative this year if they want to decorate their rooms for the holidays. That's because, according to a memo sent to staff and shared by KATU, Santa Claus is off the decoration menu.
The death toll from a fire that tore through an electronic music show in Oakland soared to 33 on Sunday, and criminal investigators are looking into how a warehouse that allegedly had been converted into an artistic and performance space without permits could have become such a death trap.
Two cities are testing a new, safer way to immobilize vehicles when their drivers haven’t paid parking tickets.
Massachusetts legislators, scrambling to pay for regulators to oversee the nascent recreational marijuana industry, may turn to a controversial source: the state’s emergency savings account, meant only for fiscal crises.
Gov. Bruce Rauner blames the veto on Democratic leaders who backed out of a deal to pass comprehensive pension reform by the end of the current general assembly.
Gov. Kate Brown presented a $20.8 billion budget Thursday, which would close half of Oregon's looming $1.7 billion shortfall through cuts to existing programs.
Smaller cities and counties may not be as willing to remain “sanctuaries” for undocumented immigrants as big cities under a Donald Trump presidency.
Prosecutors expect to produce ‘voluminous’ material for discovery, including two million pages of documents and two terabytes of data.
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