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Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner's administration on Thursday sent layoff notices to 29 workers at the Illinois Department of Transportation who held controversial patronage positions, a move the governor's office said is aimed at ridding the agency of political hires made under Democratic predecessors.
The Democrat seeking to become Missouri's next governor has nearly three times the amount of cash in his campaign account than his Republican rival.
Alaska's gray market marijuana social clubs may have just gone up in smoke.
Michael Dickerson was breathing a little easier in his elections office Wednesday afternoon in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Dallas Police Chief David Brown's public image has never been better. He is at the height of his national popularity, even making a cameo in a newly released music video.
CVS Pharmacy will begin tipping Attorney General Maura Healey to doctors and other prescribers it suspects of over-prescribing powerful opiates and painkillers to patients, according to a settlement her office inked with the national pharmacy chain.
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Diverting low-level, nonviolent offenders into treatment saves millions of dollars and makes our streets safer.
New Mexico voters may have energized a national movement to reform the criminal justice policies that keep lower-income Americans locked up.
Kansas is carefully monitoring cyberthreats and partnering with federal agencies to ensure the security of its voter database, the state's director of elections says, as the FBI investigates security breaches of voter databases in Illinois and Arizona.
Gun purchases are off limits in the U.S. to anyone who uses medical marijuana or holds a state-approved medicinal marijuana card, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, accepting the government's view that illegal-drug users are prone to violence.
In their first televised debate, the four Republican candidates for governor erupted Wednesday night into charges and countercharges over local and state leadership to battle the opioid crisis.
A New Jersey appeals court on Wednesday ruled that government agencies may "neither confirm nor deny" the existence of records in response to requests for information by the public, delivering a blow to citizens and news organizations wary of more secretive government.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday turned away an emergency appeal from North Carolina's Republican leaders, who were hoping to reinstate new voting rules that were struck down in July as racially biased.
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
Younger companies are crucial to creating jobs and promoting innovation in local economies.
The General Services Administration's decisions harm communities and waste a lot of taxpayers' money. Its mission and mindset need to change.
Only one state's voters rejected easing access to the drug.
Tropical Storm Hermine will bring heavy rain and gusty winds to Central Florida through Friday as the storm continues to strengthen and shift to the northeast.
State attorney candidate Kenny Leigh is withdrawing from the November general election, he told The Florida Times-Union on Wednesday, assuring Melissa Nelson will be Jacksonville's new elected prosecutor.
Today, on International Overdose Awareness Day, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is announcing $53 million in funding to 44 states, four tribes and Washington, D.C., to improve access to treatment for opioid use disorders, reduce opioid related deaths and strengthen drug misuse prevention efforts.
The National Labor Relations Board decided in two separate cases last week that — as far as federal labor law is concerned — charter schools are not public schools but private corporations.
Agencies are broadening a few conventional tactics to prevent cyberattacks.
The people who decide criminals’ freedom are often ill-equipped to make informed decisions. That’s where risk assessment tools come in, but they aren't always used.
Cities are experimenting with ways to meet the goals of affordable housing while still reaping the benefits of the sharing economy.
The state Senate made a rare summer return to the Capitol Tuesday, voting to confirm a former top state prosecutor to replace the convicted Kathleen G. Kane as attorney general.
The Iowa Utilities Board has given MidAmerican Energy the green light for the utility's plans for a $3.6 billion wind energy investment, the largest renewable energy project in the state.
When the Republican presidential ticket pivoted to focus on illegal immigration this summer, Donald Trump pointed to the man who has come to embody the muscular enforcement approach of the 2000s _ massive immigration raids, unremitting warnings about the dangers posed by illegal immigrants and bold public pronouncements about enforcing the rule of law.
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