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Declaring that "Connecticut is defaulting on its constitutional duty" to fairly educate its poorest children, a Superior Court judge on Wednesday ordered the state to come up with a new funding formula for public schools.
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
Schools in New York state will be required to test their drinking water for lead contamination under a new measure signed into law Tuesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
A new Illinois law aims to help drivers answer the timely question of what to do if stopped by police.
After a primary election season that featured the Republican candidate for Missouri governor shooting guns and blowing things up, the National Rifle Association on Tuesday endorsed his opponent, Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster.
With Atlantic City in financial crisis because of casino closures, the state's voters aren't willing to take any more gambles.
They badly need to improve their ability to generate investment returns. A Canadian province's initiative looks like a model worth studying.
St. Louis County joined on Tuesday 190 other U.S. communities that have chosen to ban the sale of tobacco products and electronic nicotine delivery systems to anyone under the age of 21.
Miami-Dade expects to spend almost $10 million fighting Zika through the summer, a growing tab that's already complicating efforts to boost county funding for affordable housing and other last-minute budget sweeteners.
The mayor of an eastern Pennsylvania borough has resigned five months after he was charged with stealing $8,000 from a fire company social club.
With shootings spiking on Labor Day, Chicago officially surpassed the homicide toll for all of last year, marking another alarming milestone for a city that has seen violence at its worst in two decades with still almost four months to go this year.
A police officer who wasn’t charged in the shooting death of an unarmed South Carolina teen more than a year ago is now being fired from the force.
Arizona's private elementary, middle and high schools can allow guns on campus, according to a new Arizona Attorney General's Office opinion.
Back from a seven-week break, the U.S. Senate failed for the third time Tuesday to pass a bill that would provide funding for Zika research and prevention.
As insurers exit Obamacare marketplaces across the country, critics of the Affordable Care Act have redoubled claims that the health law isn’t working.
Qualified -- and willing -- applicants have become increasingly hard for police departments to find.
Mayor Murray ups the ante on inclusive citizen engagement -- and helps pave the way for the rest of us.
State legislators’ support for public television is strengthening after nearly a decade of deep spending cuts and sharp ideological opposition from some lawmakers to the very idea of taxpayer-supported TV.
Texas will no longer help low-income families pay their electric bills. Lite-Up Texas, a program that offered discounts to hundreds of thousands of poor Texas families over the years, has run out of money and the discounts ended on Aug. 31, the Public Utility Commission confirmed.
Since turning 3, Marco Tapie has never gone more than a few days without a seizure; savage, sustained, unceasing seizures that sometimes left him bruised and bloodied.
Fifteen miles outside of Baton Rouge, on a road washed out by the flooding that submerged a nearby highway, Robert Formeller is rebuilding his property, or trying to.
When the defendants enter the courtroom this month for the start of the Bridgegate trial, the odds will be stacked against them.
Donald Trump on Monday dismissed questions about his failure to disclose an improper $25,000 contribution in 2013 to a political group connected to Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who was at the time considering whether to open a fraud investigation against Trump University.
The sector added more jobs in recent months, but it still hasn't recovered from cuts during the recession.
South Dakota's ballot measure, which failed, would have actually reduced the minimum wage for some.
It's not a simple issue, but there are some guiding principles to keep in mind.
Governments are using the "Lean" model to bring efficiency to their operations. But it could be doing a lot more.
Los Angeles wants to use antipoverty funds for development around a private arena. Is that any way to help the poor?
More than 30 percent of the country, up from 4 percent last year, could have just one carrier to choose from this fall.
Teen pregnancy is way down. And a study suggests that the reason is increased, and increasingly effective, use of contraceptives.
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