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A major rating agency on Tuesday downgraded Kansas’ credit rating for the second time in two years because of the state’s budget problems.
The governor’s office on Tuesday announced a number of recent bill signings by Gov. Pat McCrory, including a statewide district for five low-performing schools that is meant to improve student proficiency.
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The Major League Baseball team wants a big break on property taxes. Will they win?
The Atlanta mayor’s recent and abrupt termination of two agency leaders left many shocked.
Conservatives and liberals are teaming up to restrict or ban the laws that let officers seize billions of dollars a year from people who haven’t been convicted or, sometimes, even charged with a crime.
In an era of tight budgets and slow revenue growth, there’s pressure on legislators to be open and honest about what states can and can’t afford.
Blue Lives Matter bills that would increase the penalties for attacking police are popping up in states and Congress.
Prosecutors dropped all remaining charges against three Baltimore police officers accused in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray in a downtown courtroom on Wednesday morning, concluding one of the most high-profile criminal cases in Baltimore history.
When Clifton Hilton decided to quit drinking this month, he called a residential drug and alcohol detoxification center in this coastal Maine city on a Friday afternoon and was told a bed was available for him.
Death and infertility were just two of the risks a doctor described to Kryston Skinner when she chose to have an abortion last year.
A group that wants to end marijuana prohibition, and to have pot be regulated like alcohol, has endorsed conservative Republican Frank Edelblut and liberal Democrat Steve Marchand for governor.
Anne Holton, wife of Hillary Clinton's running mate pick Tim Kaine, resigned Tuesday as Virginia's secretary of education.
Arizona is rejoining a children's health insurance program for low and middle-income families, becoming the last state in the union to provide coverage for health care, dental care, speech therapy and other services to families who don't qualify for Medicaid.
A state of emergency was declared Tuesday for Los Angeles County, where the Sand fire has scorched 37,701 acres, destroyed homes and led to at least one fatality in Santa Clarita Valley.
The cereal’s new look shows how and why one small state could change the rules nationwide.
Often-uninformed city leaders struggle with the decision, and taxpayers pay the price for their lack of financial knowledge.
States are increasingly pairing mental health and substance abuse patients with peer specialists -- people who have experienced some of the same problems themselves.
Cities are increasingly viewing parking in a negative light and rethinking its place in metropolitan America.
Clinton and Trump clash on them. Congress and some states have been trying to defund them. But no one can seem to agree on what it means to actually be a sanctuary city.
The federal change won’t just hit state and local personnel costs.
The four candidates seeking the Republican nomination for Missouri governor have spent a combined total of more than $10.4 million in the past three weeks, leading into Tuesday's primary, new records show.
Mississippi's state flag didn't last long on Broad Street in South Philadelphia.
Tennessee inmates infected with hepatitis C filed a federal lawsuit against state prison officials late Monday, asking the court to force the state to start treating all inmates who have the potentially deadly disease.
The Alaska Supreme Court has invalidated the state law requiring physicians to give two days notice to parents before performing abortions on girls under 18 years old.
The Virginia Supreme Court Friday struck down Gov. Terry McAuliffe's executive orders restoring voting rights to more than 200,000 felons, declaring that the 13,000-plus who have registered to vote must be stricken from the rolls.
Texas has agreed to expand the types of documents parents can present to secure their children's birth certificates, loosening the state's grip on birth certificates for U.S.-born children of immigrants who are not in the country legally.
School districts completely surrounded by a single larger district often have vast disparities.
If done right, employing kids can improve their academic performance as well as reduce violence, incarceration and mortality rates.
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