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Before Detroit, many thought general obligation bonds were ironclad. Now they know better.
A second financial ratings agency has downgraded Chicago Public Schools' debt rating to junk status, reinforcing Wall Street's dim view of the district's finances.
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected a last ditch attempt by the state to keep a Ten Commandments monument next to the Oklahoma Capitol.
Christy O’Donnell may not get the death she had hoped for — one that right-to-die advocates say she deserves.
LaGuardia Airport was born of controversy after Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, miffed that his city did not have its own airport, refused to exit a plane that had landed at Newark Liberty International Airport in neighboring New Jersey.
After days of waiting for the seas off Block Island to calm, Deepwater Wind on Sunday finally installed the first foundation for the five-turbine wind farm it's building in waters off Block Island.
Communications within city government broke down during the riots of April 27, as officials desperate for information exchanged rumors and subordinates questioned city leaders, emails and other documents released by the city Monday reveal.
Bishop Corletta Vaughn of Detroit's Holy Ghost Cathedral, protesting the unveiling of a Satanic Temple's 9-foot, 2,000-pound statue of a goat-headed occult idol named Baphomet in the city.
Number of Arizona welfare recipients who failed drug tests between 2009 and 2014. The tests cost the state $9,500 to administer.
Chris Christie, Scott Walker and Bobby Jindal all get disapproving marks from the majority of their constituents.
We have energetic citizens who want to help solve problems -- we just have to listen.
In the last decade about 47,000 fewer couples have tied the knot in the city. That's a 37 percent drop and a loss of $1 billion annually.
In a press conference barely an hour before the USOC board of directors had a Monday conference call to discuss the Boston bid, the city's mayor said he would not commit to signing the host city contract that would make Boston the financial backstop for any Olympic Games losses.
A growing number of states are replacing full-time toll collectors with electronic systems.
In some of the country’s most expensive cities to live, economists worry increased incomes will put even more pressure on housing markets.
There's been no national conservative organization pushing states to adopt their ideas about programs for the poor -- until now.
With so many governors running for president, new attention is being given to how out-of-state political trips are funded.
Latinos Salud is an advocacy group that has provided rapid HIV testing, safe sex education and free condoms since the South Beach AIDS Project shut down.
Grace Cannon, head of the Office of New School Models, is the fourth leader to leave the district since the school year ended.
Shofars sounded amid the chanting and cheering, clapping and crying as about 100 people crowded together on a strip of sidewalk in Eastern Market today to pray and protest the Satanic Temple's plans to unveil a Baphomet monument in Detroit later tonight.
A month after a black police chief was fired amid allegations of racism, Justice Department officials traveled to Pocomoke City, Md., to meet with local leaders about the chief’s termination.
The city council in Richmond, California, voted last week to cap how much rent landlords could charge tenants in the San Francisco Bay Area city where rents have increased an estimated 30 percent over the last four years.
They spend taxpayer dollars for vital tasks such as uncovering contaminated foods and stemming the spread of deadly diseases.
Hundreds of wildfires are continually whipping across this state this summer, leaving in their wake millions of acres of charred trees and blackened earth.
Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana called for tougher gun laws in other states on Sunday, breaking his silence on the issue three days after a gunman with a history of mental illness and violence opened fire in a movie theater in the state’s fourth-largest city.
A Cook County judge on Friday overturned the city's changes to two pension funds, declaring them "unconstitutional and void."
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the Houston City Council must repeal or put up for public vote a 2014 ordinance that extended protections to gay and transgender residents.
A state appeals court on Friday ruled against one of two counts in the indictment against former Gov. Rick Perry.
Tim Storey, an elections expert at the National Conference of State Legislatures, who continued on to say that "For the past three decades, multiple lawsuits and special sessions devoted to redistricting have been the norm in the middle years of the decade."
The number of Oregon state employees who have asked the state to pay their legal bills in connection with the federal criminal investigation of former Gov. John Kitzhaber, who resigned in February.
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