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A federal appeals court upheld a voter-approved state law Thursday that allows sex offenders who have completed their prison sentences to be locked up for life if a jury determines they are mentally disturbed and dangerous.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller on Thursday restored the option for public schools to serve certain fried foods and soda by lifting a decade-old statewide ban on deep fryers and soda machines.
Delware Governor Jack Markell has signed into law a bill decriminalizing possession and private use of small amounts of marijuana, following the lead of nearly 20 states that have eased penalties for personal consumption, media reported on Thursday.
Texas police agencies will soon have to notify the attorney general every time an officer shoots someone or gets shot.
Federal prosecutors will bring no criminal charges after an investigation into loans made to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback's re-election campaign by his lieutenant governor, the U.S. attorney's office said Wednesday.
Texas has every right to declare the Confederate battle flag too divisive to be emblazoned on its specialty license plates, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a 5-4 decision that capped a heated debate over government regulation of speech.
John Trujillo, director of the public works department in Phoenix, which has attracted the interest of companies like Coca-Cola and Walmart with its new sustainability efforts to divert trash from landfills.
Beaver Dam, Wis., resident Diana Moyer, referring to the City Council's unanimous decision to define a service animal as a dog or a miniature horse -- but not a kangaroo. Moyer brought Jimmy, her baby kangaroo that she says is a therapy animal, into a McDonald's in February, prompting the city to make the change.
William Holland has a reputation for fairness and nonpartisanship as the state’s auditor general over nearly a quarter-century.
Comprehensive crime bills were passed during the two previous legislative sessions to tackle the looming, costly threat. Now, the Pew Charitable Trusts, a global research and public policy nonprofit group, has agreed to provide free technical assistance to analyze what's driving the prison population boom.
The city spent a lot of money on a computer technology upgrade that was supposed to track how the city used a $30.8 million grant from the U.S. Housing and Urban Development to combat homelessness. It didn't work.
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State lawmakers grieved Thursday for slain state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, whose booming voice was silenced Wednesday night by a gunman at the Charleston minister's church.
The latest mapping tools can give a community a better way to showcase its unique strengths -- and beat its competitors.
Immigrant children who are in the country illegally would receive public health care coverage in California under a budget deal announced Tuesday by Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders.
Sacramento County supervisors on Tuesday approved health care for undocumented immigrants and other new social service programs as part of the county budget for the fiscal year starting July 1
The California labor commissioner has ruled that an Uber driver is an employee of the company, not a contract worker as Uber has insisted all its drivers are, setting up another battle between state regulators and the ride-hailing giant.
The actions of former NAACP chairman Rachel Dolezal and two other members of the Office of Police Ombudsman Commission threatened that group's impartiality and effectiveness, a city investigation has found.
Residential customers in northern Minnesota will have to pay more in electricity rates because of a change the Legislature made last week to help big business.
It was to be the last day of the legislative session, so tensions on Wednesday were understandably high on the Senate floor. With so much to be done, things had come to a standstill over an unexpectedly provocative bill: naming the wood frog as the official state amphibian.
Some credit ratings agencies actually want governments to call them so they can make their case when things go wrong.
The guiding principles of improv comedy could help people in the public sector perform better.
Gov. Greg Abbott has signed legislation that sets a five-year statute of limitations and caps payouts at about $2 million when counties sue companies that have fouled their water or air.
First-term Democrat Pete Buttigieg is the first openly gay executive in the state, and the highest elected official in Indiana to come out.
Gov. Bill Haslam said Tuesday he sees little reason right now in preparing for the possibility that 155,000 Tennesseans could be left foundering.
The increasingly large Republican field includes several governors (like Jim Gilmore) who are trying to make a comeback after being absent from politics for years.
The $6.7 billion deal approved by the Legislature is significantly less broad than Gov. Paul LePage's wanted, but Republicans and Democrats both claimed victories.
Even states that sued Obama over the EPA's new rules to combat climate change are trying to figure out how to comply with them.
Gov. Sam Brownback says a plan increasing sales and other taxes does not count as a tax increase because it comes on the heels of income tax cuts passed three years ago.
Gov. Bill Walker has signed legislation ending a state subsidy program for the film industry, even while proclaiming his support for the motion picture business in Alaska.
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