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The Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that outside lawyers hired by the Ohio Attorney General's office can attempt to collect debt from Ohioans using letters on Attorney General letterhead.
A bill that will reduce the number of consecutive months families can receive welfare was signed Monday by Gov. Sam Brownback, who says it will help push people out into the work force faster.
Her intense focus on the minutia of the streets confuses cause and effect and virtually ignores infrastructure.
Bolstered by the federal health care law, the number of lower income kids getting health coverage continues to improve, a recent study found.
California voters this fall will likely wade through the longest list of state propositions since Bill Clinton was president, a sizable batch of proposed laws that is likely to spark a record amount of campaign spending.
Nearly two weeks after dropping out of the 2016 presidential race, John Kasich says he remains undecided whether he will back Donald Trump, and thus still has no interest in becoming the presumed GOP nominee's running mate.
After watching Donald Trump gain traction on the campaign trail with talk of border walls and mass deportations, Indiana lawmaker Mike Delph decided it was time to take action in his state.
The Constitution protects the right to buy and sell firearms as well as the right to own them, a federal appeals court said Monday in reviving a lawsuit challenging an Alameda County ordinance banning gun shops within 500 feet of a residential neighborhood or a school.
Nearly 1,000 nonviolent drug offenders will be eligible for early release from Iowa prisons over the next five years as part of a sentencing reform bill that Gov. Terry Branstad signed into law Thursday.
Hawaii has filed the first state lawsuit against Japanese manufacturer Takata Corp. and Honda Motor Co. Ltd. alleging they intentionally sold cars that were made with dangerous air bags.
A federal judge has struck down some of Kentucky's judicial conduct rules meant to keep nonpartisan judges and judicial candidates out of organized politics.
Anti-abortion advocates have allegedly found stealthier ways to shut down clinics.
One of the first things Chinese immigrant Sau Fung Lam did upon arriving in Chinatown 24 years ago was go to the local grocery store to try to buy an apple.
A federal judge in Arizona has ruled that Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio intentionally violated the judge's orders to end profiling of Latinos 19 times, a decision that raises the possibility he could face criminal charges.
Gov. Robert Bentley Thursday signed two bills restricting abortion clinic locations and banning an abortion procedure.
Kansas public employees who go out into the community will be allowed to carry concealed weapons on the job starting in July.
Republican activists chose party unity over “never Trump” resistance Saturday, with party leaders in one state after another pressuring their members to fall in line behind the presumptive nominee — and even punishing those who refused.
As the editor in chief of The San Francisco Chronicle, Audrey Cooper has overseen countless stories on homelessness.
Cities are learning to mine this trove of information to predict the impact of future events and significantly improve operations.
We know that we could save a lot of money in the future by spending a little now. But we hardly ever do it.
If our communities are going to prosper, we need to do more to end the violence and provide opportunity.
California's schools are going to have to answer for more than just test scores, by the year after next. The state may also judge them on suspension rates, graduation rates, attendance and the rate at which students who are still learning English are becoming proficient.
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday issued a ruling upholding the state’s public school funding system as constitutional, while asserting that the state’s more than 5 million students “deserve transformational, top-to-bottom reforms that amount to more than Band-Aid on top of Band-Aid."
With mosquito season weeks away, Pennsylvania officials on Thursday announced how they would confront the Zika virus, including responses to infections picked up in the Caribbean, a scenario that has not mattered so far because there have been no mosquitoes present to carry the virus.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday finalized a new set of rules aimed at battling climate change.
Wading further into a spreading national debate, the Obama administration will tell all public school districts across the nation Friday that they should allow transgender students to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity.
The Montana Supreme Court has barred state officials from reporting the immigration status of people seeking state services, striking down the last piece of a voter-approved law meant to deter people who are in the U.S. illegally from living and working in Montana.
State election officials ordered the results of Baltimore's primary election decertified Thursday and launched a precinct-level review of irregularities.
House Republicans won Round 2 in a potentially historic lawsuit Thursday when a federal judge declared the Obama administration was unconstitutionally spending money to subsidize health insurers without obtaining an appropriation from Congress.
Disgraced ex-Republican Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos, one of Long Island's and New York's most powerful politicians until his sudden fall in a family-affair corruption scandal last year, was sentenced Thursday to a shorter-than-expected 5-year prison term.
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