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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.
Hillary Clinton's running mate is one of the few people in American history to serve as a mayor, governor and U.S. senator. (Oh yeah, he was also a city council member.)
New York is set to become the first state to require schools to regularly test their water for lead. But it's far from the only place with the problem.
At a time when the job of elections administration is becoming more complex and more scrutinized, a major university has started formal training.
Two teenagers walked into McGuckin Hardware in downtown Boulder, Colorado, grabbed a $600 power saw, and shoved it into a backpack, only to be apprehended by a security guard in the parking lot.
Jennifer Winn said she planted 70 campaign signs in Haysville last week, thinking they would be protected by a new state law requiring cities and counties to let campaigns post yard signs on street rights-of-way.
A top ally of Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner abruptly resigned from the Illinois House on Sunday, citing "cyber security issues" that also prompted him to delete his social media accounts.
Nevada's Department of Corrections is changing a series of policies and practices that the U.S. Justice Department says illegally discriminate against prison inmates with HIV by housing them separately and denying access to work assignments that can speed their release.
The Hillary Clinton campaign, responding to leaked internal Democratic Party emails that threatened to revive tensions with Sen. Bernie Sanders' followers, moved quickly to squelch the problem Sunday as the party's embattled chair, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, announced she would step down at the end of the convention week.
Governors are rarely VP picks, yet Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump both selected one for the increasingly powerful office.
The latest employment estimates show the biggest gains in the West.
In a ruling with strong implications for the Nov. 8 presidential election in Michigan, a federal judge on Thursday blocked Michigan's recent ban on straight-party voting, saying the change would result in longer lines and wait times at polling places and that it would disadvantage black voters the most.
A measure to exempt state and local sales taxes on tampons and other feminine hygiene products was signed into law Thursday by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo. New York joins 10 other states with such sales tax exemptions.
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