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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said it's time to stop finger-pointing and assigning blame for the recent violence.
Six months after its president announced that its football program would be eliminated to save money, UAB is set to bring it back.
Promises to enact tough immigration legislation remain unfulfilled.
Gov. Sam Brownback said his plan to exempt the lowest-wage earners from the income tax and raise the sales tax would close the current $400 million budget deficit and leave a reserve of about $75 million for 2016.
Amid a federal criminal investigation into a no-bid contract, Chief Executive Barbara Byrd-Bennett has announced she's leaving.
Estimated portion of Alabama residents who celebrate Jefferson Davis Day, a state holiday that occurs the first Monday in June every year. State offices were closed to honor the president of the Confederate States of America.
The number of names Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe reportedly had in his Rolodex in 2012.
Estimated portion of ivory sold in Los Angeles that's illegal under California law.
Rushern Baker, county executive of Prince George's County, Md., after lawmakers rejected his pleas to increase property taxes enough to generate $133 million more for public schools. Lawmakers instead increased property taxes enough to generate just $34 million more for public schools and will also give some other extra tax revenue to parks and planning.
Martin O'Malley, the former governor of Maryland and mayor of Baltimore, who launched a long-shot bid for the presidency this weekend. O'Malley mentioned in the speech that the chief executive of Goldman Sachs recently told his workers that he would be okay if either Jeb Bush or Hillary Clinton succeeded Obama.
What makes a legislative session epic, or at least interesting, is peril: a Legislature facing some sort of crisis.
Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday signed into law all bills passed during the special session, including measures to authorize a bond issue for an economic-development project in southern Arkansas and move the state primary elections to March.
Tennessee's biggest health insurer helped ensure its own profits remained healthy last year by selling its stake in an IT company to offset extra taxes and higher-than-expected medical claims from its new Obamacare health plans.
Three federal judges have unanimously struck down an Idaho law that banned abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
The world is filled with stormy relationships. North and South Korea. Dez Bryant and the Dallas Cowboys. Texas and Washington.
Sixteen years ago, then-City Councilman Martin O'Malley chose the intersection of Harford Road and The Alameda in Clifton Park to announce his candidacy for mayor of Baltimore.
Pat McCrory won't sign a bill that would have allowed magistrates to opt out of performing weddings if they have religious objections.
For the first time in over a decade, the feds proposed new regulations for the fast-growing world of privatized Medicaid.
After being devastated by Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans is creating a more effective, equitable health system and reinvigorating all segments of its community.
After a few high-profile setbacks, the state that's been a model for others interested in public-private partnerships is tempering its enthusiasm for them.
The New Jersey governor eyes developing state standards, despite two years ago saying he and other governors were "leading the change" in support of Common Core.
State lawmakers propose funding police body cameras with a $5 fee on traffic tickets.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
With the death of a bill that would have created a statewide texting-while-driving ban, the measure’s author said Thursday that legislators “have not done our job as lawmakers to protect the life and safety of all Texans.”
Lawmakers on Thursday released some 40 topics they plan to study before the General Assembly returns to the Statehouse in 2016.
The state of Alaska is instituting a hiring freeze Friday across much of state government as a result of the Legislature's inability to approve a fully funded budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1.
Five years ago, it seemed unimaginable that a tax on plastic bags would spread from socially conscious San Francisco to cities including Los Angeles, Dallas, and Washington D.C. But it did—and early findings suggest that there have been reductions in plastic bag use.
Supporters of former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley announced the formation a super PAC on Thursday to raise money to help his expected presidential campaign.
Lawyers for the Obama administration said Wednesday that they were refocusing their legal strategy in an effort to restart the president's plan to grant temporary legal protection to millions of illegal immigrants.
More than a quarter of the coal-fired plants in the state have already shut down, because cheap natural gas is flooding the market.
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