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Officials in Mosier, Ore., are objecting to Union Pacific's decision to restart train traffic after a fiery oil-car derailment Friday prompted an evacuation and disrupted the town's sewage and water systems.
The social and economic impacts on our communities are devastating. We need to seize the opportunity to reform our criminal-justice system.
If approved, a new rule would make it easier for groups to challenge the tax exemptions that state and local governments get from the feds.
Government and most other sectors of the economy aren't adding many jobs.
Scores of residents in this Houston suburb were evacuating as another round of storms descended on southeast Texas, driving floodwaters into roads and homes_some for the third time in two months.
Superintendent Carole Smith put the district's chief operating officer and top health and safety manager on paid leave Thursday, saying the two men were in charge of a department that "didn't deliver" on handling lead hazards, communicating with the public and providing her with accurate and timely information.
A panel of federal judges Thursday rejected the most recent challenge of North Carolina’s newly drawn congressional districts.
Oregon State University will open an on-campus dorm this fall specifically designed for students recovering from drug and alcohol addiction.
Long before Trump University fell in the crosshairs of Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton, one of Donald Trump's fellow Republicans drew a bead on the now-defunct school: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott.
When she discovered she was pregnant, the 22-year-old aspiring veterinarian started calling abortion clinics in her home state of Oklahoma. It was a short list _ there are only two, and neither could get her an appointment quickly.
Courage provides the strength to say and do the right things. It's also what separates the best of us from the crowd.
Some are managing fairly well, but a lot of them aren't, and a few are in a place where the math is "very difficult."
As we develop new standards, we need to look beyond renewables and include all options that meet air-quality goals
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A lawsuit by supporters of Bernie Sanders seeking more time and information from election officials for independent voters -- the bloc crucial to the Vermont senator's presidential hopes in next week's California primary -- failed Wednesday to impress a federal judge, who called the suit tardy, misdirected and meritless.
The Baker administration is reversing a Deval Patrick-era policy that barred the state police from detaining undocumented immigrants at the request of federal immigration officials in a major policy shift officials say is intended to capture dangerous convicts living in the country illegally.
With Opa-locka on the edge of bankruptcy, Gov. Rick Scott declared a financial emergency for the city on Wednesday, calling for a special oversight board to take over the city's finances and stem the bleeding that has led to crippling debts and cutbacks that have impacted every level of government
City officials in Chicago plan to release videos, reports and other materials next week from about 100 police incidents, including officer-involved shootings, as part of an effort to improve public trust in Chicago police, according to a memo obtained Friday by the Chicago Tribune.
Federal authorities said Wednesday that they would not pursue civil rights charges against two Minneapolis police officers in the shooting death of Jamar Clark, a decision met with both outrage and resignation by activists who for months have demanded prosecution.
Lawmakers lashed out at the state Supreme Court and each other Wednesday but left Topeka without addressing the court's order to fix inequities in school funding by June 30 or risk closure of the state's schools.
A 31-year-old woman from Honduras, a nation ravaged by the Zika virus, gave birth to a baby girl suffering from the devastating effects of the virus on Tuesday at Hackensack University Medical Center, the first believed to be born with microcephaly in the continental United States, her physician said.
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From coast to coast, governments are teaming up with nonprofits to fight one of the most common yet most preventable kinds of cancer.
An environmental assessment from two federal agencies released Friday determined that fracking off the coast of California causes no significant impact, thus lifting a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing that was instituted earlier this year.
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office announced Wednesday that the state will join a legal challenge to the Obama administration's directive to local schools on the rights of transgender students.
A Cook County judge ruled in favor of the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday by declaring that Mayor Rahm Emanuel's emails, texts and other communications are not exempt from disclosure simply because they are transmitted over private devices.
The Philadelphia School District will add two Muslim holidays to its calendar, placing it among the first in the nation to do so.
Political leaders agreed Friday to extend Illinois' medical marijuana pilot program to July 2020 and added post-traumatic stress disorder and terminal illness as qualifying conditions.
The federal appeals court for Virginia on Tuesday denied the Gloucester County School Board's request for a review of its recent ruling in the lawsuit filed by 16-year-old transgender student Gavin Grimm.
California Gov. Jerry Brown said Tuesday he will vote for Hillary Clinton in the state's upcoming primary, explaining that she has the best chance of thwarting the "dangerous candidacy" of Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.
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