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Most people don't know they can get their juvenile records erased. Thanks to a group of young people, there's now an app for that.
In Minnesota, women will be paid to persuade resistant farmers to care and do something about the state's increasingly polluted waterways.
The new rules could create an influx of patients with mental health and substance abuse issues in states that are already struggling to meet the current demand.
Even in this intense presidential election season, voter turnout has been abysmal. There's a better way to get voters to participate.
Gov. Scott Walker signed 56 bills Wednesday, including ones that will block property tax increases for some public schools, bar local governments from banning plastic bags and make it illegal to use cellphones while driving in construction zones.
Abortion rights advocates in Ohio celebrated a rare victory Wednesday when the federal Food and Drug Administration relaxed requirements for a medication that induces abortion, expanding access to the procedure.
Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill into law Tuesday that mandates the state crime lab triage and process the backlog of untested rape kits sitting in police departments across Oregon.
How do fix a problem if you don’t know its size?
Rebekah Mason, the woman reputedly on the other end of the line in Gov. Robert Bentley's sexually-charged phone calls, resigned from her position as Bentley's top aide Wednesday.
As promised, Gov. Terry McAuliffe on Wednesday vetoed a bill that said no minister or religious organization could be penalized for acting on a belief that marriage should be only between a man and a woman.
A group of grad students is implementing an award-winning idea for encouraging young homeless people to use health and social services.
Clouded property titles invite neighborhood blight. Simple steps by the courts can produce huge results.
Most places focus on pensions for cost-cutting. But a new study argues it would be easier for governments to reduce the collective $1 trillion they owe in retiree health care.
What Arizona lawmakers have done gets at many of the most serious problems facing public pensions everywhere. Now it's up to the state's voters.
Gov. Rick Snyder signed a bill this morning that will send $48.7 million to the financially struggling Detroit Public Schools district to ensure that it doesn't run out of cash and be forced to shut its doors next month.
Legislation to block Planned Parenthood from receiving any state funding was vetoed by Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
No charges will be filed against the two Minneapolis officers involved in the shooting death last fall of Jamar Clark, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced Wednesday, citing DNA and other evidence that Clark had a hand on one officer's gun during a struggle and was not handcuffed when shot.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry may have stumped for Ted Cruz for president, but there's no record he voted in this year's Republican primary in Texas. A spokesman for Perry suggested his ballot may have been lost in the mail.
Countering Connecticut's Tax Proposals, Florida Governor Extends Warm Invitation to Land of Tax Cuts
Maybe Yale's dorms would be replaced with cabanas on Florida's Gulf Coast beach.
In its latest crackdown on school corruption in Detroit, the federal government today dropped a legal bomb on 12 current and former principals, one administrator and a vendor -- all of them charged with running a nearly $1-million bribery and kickback scheme involving school supplies that were rarely ever delivered.
For the second time in a year, Portland city leaders are making a political statement by preparing a travel embargo against a state deemed to have discriminatory laws.
Roy Cooper, the North Carolina attorney general, said Tuesday that his office will not defend state officials and state agencies against the law adopted last week that strikes down locally enacted protections for lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender people.
As city councilors here discussed the local water system recently, Summer Smith, a homeowner, rose to ask a question: “Can you explain in plain English what ‘emergent water conditions’ means? It sounds kind of alarming.”
New research shows certain graduated driver licensing laws result in fewer teens being arrested for nontraffic-related crimes.
<i>The Week in Politics</i>: Legislatures Take On Minimum Wage, Legal Scandals in the South and More
The most important election news and political dynamics at the state and local levels.
Hawaii's decision to end the state's most popular solar incentive program has caused more than a dozen solar companies to close up shop, lay off staff members or cut employee hours, according to a leading industry association.
Two transgender people and a lesbian law professor at N.C. Central University filed a lawsuit in federal court early Monday challenging North Carolina's new law that bans local governments from passing local anti-discrimination ordinances and dictates that transgender residents use the public restrooms of their biological sex.
Gov. Butch Otter Monday ruled out calling a special legislative session or taking action on his own to advance an Idaho-designed, federally-funded health care program for 78,000 poor and uninsured Idahoans.
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