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Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane blames two former state prosecutors for the criminal case against her, saying they "corruptly manufactured" the investigation to cover up the fact that they had viewed pornography on state computers.
A Topeka judge has denied a move by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to quash a lawsuit challenging the state's two-tier voter registration system and said Kobach has exceeded his authority with the way he runs elections.
President Barack Obama is visiting Alaska next week, where he's expected to argue climate change is an urgent problem that requires international action.
CIO Ted Ross says the city will use data from a growing number of smart and mobile devices to run more efficiently and effectively.
CIOs need to develop better ways to measure how technology is affecting government outcomes.
The owner of the Washington Capitals and Wizards makes urban planning predictions.
Politics and funding have often stymied the legislative push to pay employees forced to take time off to care for newborns or sick family members. But attitudes about work-life balance are shifting.
The confusion caught the media off guard and some didn't realize they were photographing the wrong sister until after Kathleen Kane was inside the courthouse for a preliminary hearing on charges of criminal obstruction.
Jen Henderson, 23, is the only registered voter living within one community improvement district; she is the sole person who would vote on a half-cent sales tax increase for the district.
The four judges who make up the Milwaukee district of the Court of Appeals are, for the first time in Wisconsin, all women.
Reed Hall announced Tuesday he is retiring as CEO of the troubled Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.
Hundreds of districts have reported that they are covering all or some of the pension contributions that teachers, by law, are required to make.
Calls reporting possible child abuse and neglect have increased 25 percent since January at the state's child-welfare agency, leading to a 41 percent increase in opened cases, that agency's new director says.
A panel of federal judges saw problems with Alabama's legislative district map and where it places minority voters.
A judge on Tuesday approved New Jersey's controversial $225 million settlement with ExxonMobil Corp., following a decade of litigation over the oil giant's pollution of more than a thousand acres in the northern part of the state.
Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday sought to rewrite a wide-ranging measure aimed at curbing heroin use, eliminating a requirement that the state's Medicaid health care program for the poor pay for medication and therapy programs to treat addiction.
For years, state and local governments have attached additional fees and costs to everything from speeding tickets to parole supervision.
Eight months after the Justice Department announced new curbs on racial profiling, Maryland became on Tuesday the first state to follow suit, with guidelines aimed at severely restricting law enforcement officers from singling out suspects based on traits including race, ethnicity and sexual orientation.
The recent bankruptcy rulings in California and Michigan protected retirees’ pensions. But at what expense?
In Roanoke, Va., Facebook, Twitter and all their social-network cousins have a home in every government agency.
Laws and regulations make it increasingly difficult for public officials to get anything done. But that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
Government agencies can learn a lot from tracking and analyzing grievance claims.
Some states are looking to prevent more derailments and spills, but the freight industry doesn't want more regulation.
Governing followed efforts to turn around one Tennessee high school in this year-long, four-part series that reveals the potential and perils of education reform.
As states around the country embrace Tennessee’s turnaround model, the experience of one Memphis high school shows policymakers about its potential and perils.
The state will not to appeal a judge's ruling blocking a proposed reduction in the annual benefit adjustments in the Montana Teachers Retirement System.
Senate Bill 725 allows students who’ve fulfilled all other graduation requirements to receive diplomas. Thousands of high school seniors were left in limbo after the July test was canceled because the state's contract with the provider had expired.
Gov. Greg Abbott's many redactions and unilateral decisions to withhold information — along with all the exceptions written into disclosure laws each year by the Texas Legislature — are leaving the public less and less informed about the activities of the government they pay for, transparency experts said.
The $37 million program, Texas Fitness Now, primarily gave money to schools to buy sports and gym equipment from 2007 to 2011. Four years later, kids are just as fat.
A data breach that involved the accidental release of the Social Security numbers and salaries of more than 1,000 Illinois Department of Corrections staffers was the result of human error, officials said Friday.
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