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In a hotly contested move, Los Angeles lawmakers decided Wednesday to carve out more exemptions to a city law meant to curb the carnage of mass shootings, arguing that it would better protect the public from such attacks.
Masked assailants armed with assault rifles opened fire on a holiday banquet for county employees in San Bernardino on Wednesday, killing 14 people and plunging a nation already on edge about terrorism and mass shootings into hours of tense uncertainty.
Texas state officials on Wednesday sued the federal government and a local nonprofit in an attempt to keep out a family of six Syrian refugees who are scheduled to arrive in Dallas on Friday, setting up the first legal fight over the Obama administration's plans to take in more refugees from the war-torn country.
A preliminary autopsy report indicates Mayor Greg Fisk died of natural causes Monday, the Juneau Police Department said Wednesday afternoon.
California will have a massive footprint at the United Nations summit on climate change in Paris, a symbol of the state's political commitment to fighting global warming and the business interest of companies that can benefit from clean energy policies.
After nearly a decade of wrangling over the role the federal government should have in education, Congress is poised to approve an overhaul of the 2002 No Child Left Behind law that would give more authority to Maryland and other states to address their failing schools.
The number of fatal car crashes fell overall last year. But in some states, they were on the rise.
Here's how the new bill, which has been signed by Obama, will impact states and localities.
New England’s most densely populated city is testing a new way to alleviate congestion and free up more space for public transit, pedestrians and bicyclists.
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Houston's mayor has set the pace for leveraging data-driven management to improve city-government efficiency.
The amendment adopted Tuesday reverts Alaska residency requirements to Permanent Fund dividend eligibility, which, among other qualifications, requires a person be physically present in the state.
Henry Perea, leader of Legislature's moderate Democrats, will resign to seek a government relations job.
Council members approved salary increases of 8.1 to 10.6 percent for themselves after deferring raises during the recession. They also decided corporations, unions and political action committees will no longer be prohibited from contributing to campaigns.
Metal detectors were in place Monday at three entrances to the Ohio Statehouse as part of increased security measures. A fourth Statehouse entrance has been permanently closed and legislators have banned backpacks.
Several states mandate public reporting of price information, but online cost estimators offered through insurance company are often inaccurate.
The $31,690 Johnny Melton received to settle a lawsuit over his mother's death was going to help him start life anew after prison.
Alabama would pay just over $51,000 in legal fees to settle a lawsuit brought by Planned Parenthood Southeast over Gov. Robert Bentley's attempt to cancel the organization's Medicaid contract, under an agreement filed in federal court Monday morning.
The Obama Administration won a small but significant battle on Tuesday when the U.S. Supreme Court denied Texas’ request for an extra 30 days to respond to the White House’s petition for review of a controversial immigration case.
Californians missed their state-ordered water savings target for the first time, regulators reported Tuesday, and there's a counterintuitive twist: The cooler, wetter weather may be to blame.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has appointed the former top law enforcement officer in Maryland to head a wide-ranging investigation into the chain of pornographic emails exchanged among state prosecutors, judges and other law enforcement officials on government computers.
They are well-known and respected in Chicago's legal community, but whether members of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's new policing task force will be able to repair the fractured relationship between the Chicago Police Department and the community and prevent future police abuses was met with skepticism Tuesday.
Utilities and the communities they serve are getting out of sync with each other. Three cities show what can -- and can't -- be done.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday announced he has dismissed Chicago police Superintendent Garry McCarthy, citing a lack of public trust in the police leadership in the wake of the high-profile shooting that eventually led to a white officer being charged with first-degree murder in the death of a black teen shot 16 times in a Southwest Side street last year.
Many co-op plans were priced low, and customers poured in. But these new customers had high health costs, so the co-ops had to start paying a lot of bills. The math didn’t add up.
Scott Walker has signed a bill to distribute excess Lambeau Field taxes to local governments in Brown County.
The N.J. insurance chief refuses to stop sales of OMNIA health plans.
Takeovers of lousy schools by parents never began. No new schools will be eligible for the trigger for the next three years, according to the Department of Education.
Gov. Jerry Brown on Monday accepted the resignation of Steven Bohlen, who has supervised California's troubled Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources for the last 18 months.
A Texas veterinarian who offered pet-care advice online lost a battle against state regulators on Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear his case.
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