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A federal judge temporarily blocked Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine from going to court seeking changes in how Planned Parenthood clinics dispose of fetal remains following abortions.
Usually what happens in Woodland stays in Woodland, a town 115 miles east of Raleigh with one Dollar General store and one restaurant.
The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Monday to give taxi, for-hire and Uber drivers the ability to unionize.
Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla said he won't seek re-election so his administration can focus on reducing the Caribbean island's $70 billion debt load.
The U.S. Justice Department's antitrust probe of two massive proposed insurance mergers has dominated the spotlight as hospitals, doctors and lawmakers fret over the impact of allowing Anthem to absorb Cigna Corp. and Aetna to swallow Humana.
After a brief but tearful plea for leniency from former Secretary of State Dianna Duran, state District Judge T. Glenn Ellington on Monday sentenced her to 30 days in jail, a fine of $14,000 and restitution totaling $13,866.
In 2016, states are expected to continue the growth they've experienced since the Great Recession. But the new era of growth is a modest one.
Budgets aren't as transparent as they could be. There are ways (some simpler than others) to fix that.
Casey Hodge stepped from the prison van, trembling under the weight of her thick handcuffs and leg shackles. The slight 25-year-old was led with a group of other women into a small room and ordered to strip naked.
Ali Sinicrope and her husband would like to buy a house, but they’re not sure they can afford it. They’re public school teachers in Middletown, Connecticut, and they owe $80,000 in student loans.
Controversy over Arizona's tough immigration law rages on, but an Arizona Daily Star analysis shows that the Border Patrol is picking up few people in Tucson for possible deportation.
The Chicago Teachers Union on Monday delivered the city a message that union leaders have threatened for weeks: Educators are prepared to walk off the job for the second time since 2012 if an agreement can't be reached on a new contract.
States and cities spent this enrollment season finding creative ways to reach the millions who still have no health insurance.
California lawmakers' repeated failures to agree on legislation to resolve the state's seemingly endless battle over how to use its water resources raise new questions about whether they'll ever be able to find a compromise.
A Collin County judge has denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's requests to dismiss criminal charges accusing him of financial fraud.
As United Nations officials worked towards a compromise on the fight against global climate change, cities and regions representing nearly one-fifth of the world’s population took the chance to announce their own accord.
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said Sunday that states should be granted access to federal terror watch and no-fly lists for use in screening potential gun buyers.
Planned Parenthood has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court aimed at protecting access to safe and legal abortions for women in Ohio, according to a statement released by the organization on Sunday.
Sylvester Turner's 24-year quest for the mayor's office was realized by a narrow margin Saturday night, driven by overwhelming support from black voters and a robust effort to push supporters to the polls.
From parking meters to freeway lighting, governments are finding new ways to turn infrastructure liabilities into assets and improve services.
Cops need to be more than law enforcers. They need to be equipped to deal with the social problems of the communities they serve.
Front-line workers know what needs to be done to make government more efficient. Encouraging them to share their ideas is critical.
Chances are you already have people in your department playing this role, if only informally.
What if people who live near transit stations drive less and own fewer cars for reasons that have nothing to do with the transit stations?
Through what’s known as a drug waiver, state officials will have new spending flexibility as they try to improve outcomes and reduce social and financial costs of people with substance abuse disorders.
Researchers can mine Google data to identify searched phrases that spiked during previous upticks in a particular disease. Then, they measure the frequency of those searches in real time to estimate the number of emerging cases.
More than two dozen religiously affiliated colleges and universities across the United States have received exemptions from the federal civil rights protections provided under Title IX since 2014, documents show, waivers that activists said allow them to discriminate against students and employees on the basis of categories like sexual orientation and gender identity.
Gov. Bill Walker on Wednesday released his long-awaited proposal to fix the state's budget deficit -- a plan with new and steeper taxes, smaller budget cuts than last year's, and a restructuring of the Alaska Permanent Fund that includes a cut in state residents' annual dividend.
With the stroke of a pen, the No Child Left Behind Act became history on Thursday.
Jurors Thursday night found a fired Oklahoma City police officer guilty of sexual offenses involving eight victims and chose punishments that could mean he will never go free.
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