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State schools chief Randy Dorn has filed a lawsuit against seven school districts alleging that they illegally rely on local levies to fund basic education, including teacher salaries.
California’s Obamacare premiums will jump 13.2 percent on average next year, a sharp increase that is likely to reverberate nationwide in an election year.
Gov. Pat McCrory on Monday signed into law legislation restoring employees’ right to claim in state court that they were fired for discriminatory reasons.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, whom Donald J. Trump passed over to be his running mate, was one of the stars of the Republican convention’s second night on Tuesday, delivering a detailed case against Hillary Clinton with a prosecutorial zeal.
Many police chiefs are ordering their officers to work in pairs. But whether that actually makes cops -- and citizens -- safer is up for debate.
Chicago's Washington Park was nearly empty on a recent Friday afternoon as Bronzeville resident Rosemary Jarrett power-walked her usual five laps around the perimeter of the graceful meadowland where a temporary Olympic stadium could have risen this summer.
Portland Superintendent Carole Smith announced Monday she is stepping down "now" in the wake of the lead controversy in Oregon's largest school district.
The race to be the new Republican nominee for governor is well underway, but most of the action is taking place far from Indiana at a Hilton Garden Inn near the Cleveland airport.
Missourians with criminal convictions could have an easier time sealing those records under legislation signed Wednesday by Gov. Jay Nixon.
The Justice Department on Monday filed a petition asking that the full nine-member U.S. Supreme Court rehear the blockbuster lawsuit against President Barack Obama's plan on immigration.
Despite three acquittals and a hung jury through the first four trials of officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, prosecutors have the prerogative to push forward with the remaining trials.
The city has a unique effort to improving the relationship between cops and citizens.
Governor Raimondo has vetoed a bill that would have given grandparents, with temporary custody of their grandchildren, adoption -- and parental-termination rights -- they do not currently have.
Documents made public last week give voters a final look at the financial support propelling Republican and Democratic candidates for governor into the Aug. 9 primary elections.
Poisonings from fake marijuana have jumped alarmingly and usage has become so prevalent that Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced new efforts Thursday to prevent the sale of products often sold in head shops, vaporiums and online.
Congress is about to leave for a seven-week vacation without giving the Obama administration any of the $1.9 billion it's seeking to battle the Zika virus, and a Senate effort to revive the nuts-and-bolts process of passing agency budgets was dealt a significant setback at the hands of Democrats.
Former Minnesota Gov. Wendell Anderson, who appeared on the cover of Time magazine in 1973 with a big northern pike and wide grin as a symbol of his state's good life, but then alienated voters when he appointed himself to a vacant U.S. Senate seat, died Sunday, a state official said.
An Iraq war veteran identified by law enforcement as a "black separatist" fatally shot three police officers and wounded three others here Sunday, opening another chapter in the racial unrest that has swept some cities and exposed the vulnerability of police.
In an effort to survive, several of the remaining health co-ops are fighting the landmark law. Unlike most legal challenges to it, they may actually have a case.
The City Accelerator's Cohort I cities are meeting this week to discuss their progress, challenges and how they can sustain their momentum.
Numbers of ATV-related roadway deaths vary across states.
Texas spending on prisons and jails is the highest in the nation, a new federal study concludes, and has grown about five times faster than the state's rate of spending growth on elementary and secondary education over the past three decades.
A ballot referendum to split the nation’s capital into a new state for its residents and a smaller, federal district for government buildings and monuments is headed to D.C. voters in November.
A state Republican Party official says it’s “pure coincidence” that Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem’s decision to skip the Republican National Convention has opened the door for Fargo entrepreneur Doug Burgum -- who defeated Stenehjem last month for the GOP nomination for governor -- to attend as a delegate.
State officials on Thursday added the evolution of gay rights and the contributions of lesbian and gay figures in history to the list of topics that public-school students will be taught in California, a landmark move that puts the ongoing LGBT civil rights fight into the mainstream of public education.
Gov. Pat McCrory signed the state budget Thursday at a Union County elementary school, which provided a backdrop for his discussion about teacher pay and other education initiatives the budget will fund.
Gov. Jack Dalrymple has issued an executive order calling for lawmakers to return to Bismarck early next month for a special session to address a projected budget shortfall of more than $300 million for the 2015-17 biennium.
Encouraging informed disagreement is the only way a public leader can learn whether an initiative might -- or might not -- succeed.
Thanks to crushing pension and other debt, they're more likely to raise your taxes and cut your services.
Governors seem like obvious vice presidential candidates. But Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is only the second governor to run for VP since 1972.
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