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A judge on Monday extended Florida's voter registration deadline by one more day, through Wednesday, because of Hurricane Matthew, calling it "irrational" for the state to reject the idea.
The remarks Donald Trump made in 2005 about groping women have divided Republican leaders at the national level. It's also driving a wedge between Republicans here in Washington state.
A judge has thrown out the federal civil case accusing Attorney General Ken Paxton of securities fraud, giving him his biggest legal victory yet since the allegations surfaced more than a year ago.
Gov. Rick Snyder today signed legislation -- approved by the Michigan Legislature last month -- that would require schools to hold back third-graders who are more than a grade level behind in the subject.
The leading Republican in the Vermont House of Representatives withdrew his support for Donald Trump on Saturday night in the wake of a newly uncovered recording in which Trump made lewd and sexually aggressive comments about women.
President Barack Obama signed a new disaster declaration for Florida, freeing up additional federal funding and resources to help with clean-up and recovery efforts after Hurricane Matthew.
The after-effects of Hurricane Matthew hit North Carolina hard and will be felt for the rest of the week as the state's eastern communities brace for downstream flooding.
"Participative management" is big in the private sector. Government leaders need to recognize its value.
Even though the federal government has repeatedly rejected certain health-care requests, many Republican-led states keep asking for them.
Local governments have a lot to gain from the kind of transparency that involves residents in decision-making.
Embattled former Gloucester police Chief Leonard Campanello will be allowed to retire early next year after the city and its former top cop came to an agreement yesterday that will put an end to termination proceedings that would have dragged on for months, attorneys for both sides say.
Uber and Lyft, the major ride hailing app providers in Philadelphia, has not decided whether they will abide by a judge's demand that they stop operating their popular ride sharing services in the city.
Visitors to the Detroit Zoo have one less option if they get thirsty walking the grounds.
The federal government on Wednesday issued guidance to national security agencies and local police departments on how they can diversify their ranks as part of a significant new effort to ease racial tensions across the country.
Florida rejected a request Thursday from Hillary Clinton's campaign chief to extend the state's voter-registration deadline due to Hurricane Matthew.
A New Jersey Transit train gathered speed in the moments before it slammed into a barrier at the end of tracks in Hoboken terminal last week at 21 mph, federal investigators said Thursday.
Business leaders and Republican legislators want to make laws that limit the power of labor unions permanent. In one state, they just did.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Shoestring budgets and bureaucratic hurdles are preventing some of the state's top researchers and forensic experts from identifying hundreds of the remains found on or near the Texas border, members of the Texas Forensic Science Commission said Wednesday.
The two major candidates for governor battled Wednesday night over their personal backgrounds in business and on topics ranging from the minimum wage and the economy to gun control.
Hearing oral arguments Wednesday in an appeal by Texas death row inmate Duane Buck, U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared unswayed by the state's contention that Buck's death sentence should stand despite a psychologist's testimony at his trial that black men are more dangerous than whites.
Police officers throughout New Jersey will be required to take continuing-education courses aimed at reducing deadly confrontations with blacks and other minority group members, Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino said Wednesday.
Powerful Hurricane Matthew slowed its deadly northwest trek out of the Caribbean and across the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, giving South Florida a few extra frenzied hours to prepare for the Category 3 storm.
Starting Nov. 1, Kentuckians will have to use the federal health exchange to shop for coverage rather than kynect, the highly praised state health exchange launched under former Gov. Steve Beshear.
Americans continue to spend more on almost everything, but money habits vary widely across the states.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Weinholtz said Tuesday that he would support a small income tax increase in order to bolster Utah's public education funding — which drew a quick condemnation from Gov. Gary Herbert as an "Eastern, liberal mentality."
Both major party candidates competing to become West Virginia’s next governor agree that the state’s teachers are underpaid, that roads need to be fixed, that higher education cuts are a problem and that the state’s internet service needs improved.
Philadelphia police get nearly 300 calls a day related to domestic violence. In a year, that is a 100,000 calls.
On the eve of Tuesday's vice presidential debate, Gov. Mike Pence's efforts to keep Syrian refugees out of Indiana suffered a series of devastating blows, with his preferred successor running away from the idea and a second court deciding that his attempt to block resettlement aid was discriminatory.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a bill passed by the state Legislature to restrict abortion is unconstitutional.
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