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We ask it to deal with a lot of problems for which it is ill-equipped. We need to narrow its focus and scale up other institutions.
Providence has dug itself into a deep hole. Can it find the resolve to dig itself out?
Tablets for free web browsing are being shut off at city-sponsored internet kiosks after complaints that some users were hogging the terminals and viewing pornography in public.
Oregon and software giant Oracle have ended their bitter legal fight.
A Columbus, Ohio, police officer shot and killed a 13-year-old boy who pulled a BB gun from his waistband following a report of an armed robbery on Wednesday night, according to authorities. The gun was "practically identical" to the weapons police use, Columbus Police Chief Kim Jacobs said.
An offering of no good choices roused the crowd. City Hall became a cacophony of angry voices. Civic leaders were shouted down. Public health docs, with their unwelcome assessments, were interrupted by clamorous chants. "No more spraying. No more spraying. No more spraying."
Ohio Gov. John Kasich's wish to spend more time in the Oval Office will be granted Friday. But this time, he'll go to support an embattled trade pact that President Barack Obama wants passed.
Arizona has announced an end to its practice of requiring police officers to demand the papers of people suspected of being in the country illegally _ a move that pulls the last set of teeth from what was once the nation's most fearsome immigration law.
With the Obama administration poised to welcome thousands more Syrian refugees into the country, Gov. Bill Haslam said Thursday he has confidence in the vetting process for those making a new home in Tennessee after fleeing a war zone.
As he sat in a food pantry here, a 32-year-old Syrian refugee's eyes widened when he heard that Republican Gov. Chris Christie had declared last year that he didn't want any people fleeing the war-torn country to come to New Jersey.
It's a win for the porn industry and the state of California, which stood to lose millions of dollars if the measure passed.
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Republicans used their legislative muscle Wednesday to loosen state gun laws and require people to present photo identification when they head to the polls.
Gov. Christie, surprising skeptics, on Wednesday approved a bill that will allow people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder to use medical marijuana when conventional treatments fail.
Executive Councilor Chris Sununu of Newfields has won the Republican nomination for governor, having edged out conservative newcomer Frank Edelblut of Wilton by a razor-thin margin of about 800 votes out of more than 63,000.
A federal jury has found that Miami city officials defrauded bond investors in 2009 by playing shell games with public money, making the municipality the only one in the country to have been caught twice committing securities violations.
A Dane County judge on Monday ruled a state commission violated the open records law last year when it refused to quickly turn over information about a union election.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's trip to Flint was billed as a visit to learn about the Flint water crisis in a community that has been suffering through more than two years of using bottled water for the most basic of needs.
The Atlantic Coast Conference has pulled this year's football title game from Charlotte amid the ongoing firestorm over North Carolina's House Bill 2, the latest sports-related blow stemming from the controversial law.
D.C. police will be required to confirm to dispatchers that they have turned on their body cameras when they respond to a call or interact with citizens, a change ordered Wednesday after a fatal police shooting in which a camera was not activated until after the incident, city officials said.
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
New Census data shows some cities have a lot of residents who consume more public services than they contribute in taxes. That can cause fiscal problems down the road.
Its ranks are overwhelmingly female. Bringing more men into the field would improve the way it deals with family and parenting issues.
Gov. Jay Inslee enters the final months of his re-election bid with a campaign-cash pile dwarfing that of GOP challenger Bill Bryant.
Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed bills Tuesday that would have repealed the sales tax on diapers and tampons, saying that they would cost the state budget too much money. Now the two legislators who authored the legislation have an idea they say will make that argument irrelevant: Tax candy instead.
For the first time in 36 years and just the third time in Tennessee's 220-year history, members of the General Assembly on Tuesday ousted a lawmaker from their midst as unfit to serve.
An unexpectedly strong showing throughout the state had first-term state Rep. Frank Edelblut running neck-and-neck with Executive Councilor Chris Sununu in a tight race for the Republican gubernatorial nomination that saw Manchester Mayor Ted Gatsas finish third.
Promising to take New Hampshire on its "next step forward," Executive Councilor Colin Van Ostern accepted his party's nomination at the Millyard Museum in Manchester Tuesday night.
State Sen. Colin Bonini brushed off a challenge from political newcomer Lacey Lafferty in the Republican primary for governor Tuesday, setting the stage to challenge Democrats' dominance of statewide offices in the November general election.
Gloucester police Chief Leonard Campanello, who rose to national prominence for spearheading a treatment-based approach to handling the city's opioid crisis, was placed on paid leave yesterday amid an unspecified investigation, the city's mayor said.
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