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Calling it a salute to the “genius” of the country’s founding fathers, Gov. Greg Abbott on Saturday signed legislation allowing Texans with licenses to openly tote their handguns in a hip or shoulder holster.
Kansas will avoid massive budget cuts after a plan to increase taxes crawled to passage in the Legislature on Friday.
Rent regulations that limit how much landlords can charge for many apartments in New York City and a number of surrounding communities were set to expire on Monday and lawmakers here did not appear close to a deal to extend or modify them.
The White House expanded drought assistance to California and other western states on Friday with $110 million in new grants to aid farmers and communities.
Aiming to get more people into housing faster, the city is breaking down a lot of barriers.
Policies that limit student aid to adults who are holding down a job while going to college need to be re-examined.
Seattle is tapping technology to reach previously unheard from -- and often culturally diverse -- citizens.
The pot shop's surveillance video shows Santa Ana police officers entering Sky High Holistic, a marijuana dispensary, and forcing patrons to the ground as they raid the facility. Then an officer appears to toss an edible into mouth and flash a thumbs-up.
The state may adopt what could be a national model for states to curb the prescription of antipsychotics to children in foster care.
Can providing mental health care in exchange for reduced probation improve recidivism?
Lawyers for former Port Authority Deputy Executive Director Bill Baroni wrote in court papers that a proposal to limit disclosure of the evidence in the case prior to the trial would hamper their defense.
The Legislature's proposed spending bill for agriculture and the environment temporarily empties the Metropolitan Landfill Contingency Action Trust (MLCAT), which currently contains $8.1 million. The state says it will pay the money back later.
Amount New York City has spent removing wet wipes from its sewer system since 2010.
Kansas state Rep. John Whitmer, a Republican who was in tears last week urging his fellow Republicans to support a tax increase to avert massive budget cuts. Enough conservatives eventually caved to pass it around 4 a.m.
In a matter of minutes, the state House on Thursday morning overrode the governor's veto of the same-sex marriage bill that allows magistrates to opt out of performing marriages.
To join the few and the proud who police Britain’s streets with a gun, first you have to walk the beat unarmed for years.
An Ohio judge found probable cause to bring criminal charges against the Cleveland police officer who shot and killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice last year, but the decision whether to prosecute is still likely to rest with a county grand jury, officials said Thursday.
The Alaska Legislature formally stamped its approval on a long-awaited bipartisan budget deal Thursday, then shut down for the summer.
A tax plan crawled to passage in the Kansas House in the early hours Friday morning, after Gov. Sam Brownback warned lawmakers that massive budget cuts would occur Monday if they failed to act on taxes.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder signed a package of bills Thursday that will allow faith-based adoption groups in Michigan to refuse to serve prospective parents, like same-sex or unmarried couples, if doing so would violate the groups' religious beliefs.
Anyone who thinks jury duty is an inconvenience can take heart in this fact: Even governors are summoned.
A group that calls itself the Middle East Cyber Army hacked into the state Department of Weights and Measures website over the weekend, the second known attack on an Arizona site.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, referring to Richard Matt and David Sweat who escaped from a maximum-security prison in Dannemora, N.Y., on June 6.
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Gov. Gregg Abbott said the bill would go "too far" in pursuit of water conservation by giving a local water utility authority that belongs to the state.
Record-breaking spring rains in Colorado Springs lessened city water usage and has cost Utilities about $17 million in revenue
The state approved $3.86 million for housing and salary boosts for some state employees for oil-rich parts of the state where the cost of living has skyrocketed.
A state Supreme Court ruling this week freed Gov. Chris Christie from having to fully fund public pensions.
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