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For Tuscaloosa, Alabama, there are lessons to be learned from the terror that gripped Paris just over a week ago.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken up his predecessor's crusade against the federal government, spending nearly a quarter of a million dollars suing the federal government in six new legal challenges since taking office in January.
The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to reverse a lower court ruling that blocked the president's plan to defer deportation for as many as 5 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
Louisiana elected Democrat John Bel Edwards as governor on Saturday, ending eight years of Republican rule and making Louisiana the only state in the Deep Red U.S. South led by a Democrat.
As one may expect, Southerners devote more time to religion, while people out West play more sports.
View the latest jobs data for states -- and trends over time.
Indian gaming has contributed $1 billion to education in Oklahoma over the last 10 years, according to the results of a new study, but the state is getting less of that money as gaming operations in the state change.
The Washington State Supreme Court denied several motions to reconsider its Sept. 4 decision that the state's charter-school law is unconstitutional, which means the ruling is expected to become final on Dec. 14.
The State Board of Education on Wednesday rejected a rule change that would have allowed school boards to hire anyone they wanted as superintendent — even if the candidate had no public education experience — as long as they had some kind of post-baccalaureate degree and intended to pursue superintendent certification.
Hoping to curb underage smoking _ and keep some teens from ever lighting up _ Kansas City and Wyandotte County on Thursday banned sales of cigarettes and other tobacco products to people under age 21.
Communities with big homeless populations are increasingly turning to a strategy known as housing first. The idea: helping chronically homeless people to find a permanent home—and stay in it—is the best way to help them lead stable, healthy lives.
Homelessness is on the rise in many of America's biggest cities as wealth concentrates in urban centers, elevating rents and squeezing supplies of affordable housing in places like Los Angeles and New York, new federal data show.
The practice is loved by government accountants and scorned by bankers and investors.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
In their quest to make public records requests easier, faster and cheaper, some governments are publishing them online for anyone to see.
To boost America's support for higher education, faculties and administrations need to remember why we have it.
From city managers to auditors, local officials offer ways to fix data collection.
Nonbiological parent to have say in custody when same-sex couples separate, Oklahoma court says
Under the proposal from Ranked Choice Voting Maine, the state would become the first in the nation to fully use a ranked-choice ballot system for its elections.
The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust has sued Hialeah Mayor Carlos Hernandez, saying that he intentionally broke its regulations by sending the 360,000 coins even though he knew the panel accepts only checks.
Families are suing the U.S. Bureau of Land Management in federal district court, accusing the agency of perpetrating an “arbitrary seizure” of land along the Red River.
The rate has increased in every state in the last decade, yet few are doing much to prevent it.
The states have a long dispute about how to share the Chattahoochee and Flint rivers.
Earlier this year, Indiana was poised to become the first state in the nation to permit use of newborn safety incubators, also known as "baby boxes," to temporarily shelter babies abandoned by their parents.
Members of Texas' State Board of Education on Wednesday narrowly rejected a plan to create a group of state university professors to scour Texas schoolchildren's textbooks for factual errors.
The City Council has selected De'Carlon Seewood as Ferguson city manager.
NYPD Commissioner William Bratton and Mayor Bill de Blasio had a message for New Yorkers in an unusual late-night news conference in Times Square last night: Keep going about your business.
A Virginia mayor ignited a backlash Wednesday after he cited America's mass detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II as support for his call to deny Syrian refugees the opportunity to resettle in the United States.
The latest chapter of the national dispute over the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the U.S. took place Wednesday, with Connecticut's Democratic governor welcoming a married couple from Homs, Syria, and their 5-year-old son, who were turned away this week by the Republican governor of Indiana.
A solution to a decades-old parking problem in one city shows how others can harness the power of market economics.
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