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The organization brought doctors on because it was getting a lot of calls that weren't emergencies.
We need to do a better job of collecting what's owed, but we need to keep the focus on public safety, not revenue.
The Wisconsin governor says he will avoid sharp foreign affairs comments on his visit to Europe.
Some 54 percent of registered voters in New Jersey disapprove of the governor's job performance.
The body camera bill will get a hearing in the South Carolina Senate as soon as next week.
Putting the checkbooks of cities, counties, villages, townships and schools online, state Auditor Dave Yost says, could accomplish that rarest of things: restoring Ohioans faith in government.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane fired the head of her appeals office Wednesday and had armed agents escort him from the office.
The Obama administration spoke out Wednesday against using so-called conversion therapy on minors, saying the practice, in which mental health providers try to change a person's sexuality or gender identity, "is neither medically nor ethically appropriate."
A Wisconsin state board made up of elected officials voted 2-1 Tuesday to ban staff members of a small agency from on-the-job discussion or work related to climate change.
Kansas became the first state Tuesday to ban a common second-trimester abortion procedure that critics describe as dismembering a fetus.
The Michigan Supreme Court, rejecting arguments from unions, has upheld a 2012 state law requiring teachers and other school employees to put more of their pay toward their pension plans or face cuts to benefits such as post-retirement health care.
For most Americans, especially the poor and minorities, the number of jobs near home is declining.
The Bay Area city will light-up SL Wi-Fiber in a four-block radius that encompasses the core of its downtown area this summer.
Wealthier Los Angeles neighborhoods consume three times more water than less affluent ones.
What will the cop's defense be? Murder charges against officers for shootings are rare.
The city has filed a batch of lawsuits against various nonprofit organizations the city says are in arrears for a combined $834,000.
The evidence that chemical abortions can be turned around, however, is incredibly thin.
Erik Leighton, who was police-escorted out of a "breastaurant" sports bar in Houston because according to a staff member, most face tattoos are gang-related and the area has had gang activity which sometimes leads to incidents at the bar.
Amount the Virginia governor proposed borrowing to replace voting machines after a report called into question their accuracy and security. The legislature, though, nixed the item from the budget.
Dave Poulin, apologizing for his statue of Lucille Ball in the actress' hometown of Celoron, N.Y. Poulin has offered to fix the statue that residents call "frightening" for free, but the mayor wants a new artist to redo it.
Actor Zach Braff, in response to extensive media coverage of the Walkerton, Ind., pizzeria that refused to cater gay weddings. The "we" refers to Braff and actor Donald Faison.
Now that a win for marijuana reform is in the books in Kansas' largest city, the focus shifts to Topeka, where the attorney general has called Wichita's voter-approved initiative unlawful and the Legislature could consider as many as three marijuana-related bills in the coming weeks.
Gov. Rick Scott threw more cold water Monday on the state Senate's push for expanding health insurance for low-income Floridians, saying it was too risky to rely on support from the federal government.
A downed power transmission line in southern Maryland caused a momentary loss of power that led to "widespread outages" in the nation's capital Tuesday afternoon, according to officials.
A federal judge refused late Tuesday to lift a temporary hold on President Obama's executive action seeking to shield up to 5 million immigrants from deportation.
With his re-election victory Tuesday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel renewed his lease on a municipal fixer-upper, one with buckling and painful-to-repair financial underpinnings caused by decades of deferred maintenance.
For the first time in Ferguson's 120-year history, the City Council will have three black members, but even so, Tuesday's election was less than a clear victory for the throngs of volunteers who poured into the city in a last-minute push to sway voters.
A South Carolina police officer was charged with murder in the shooting death of an unarmed black man after authorities obtained a video that showed him unleash a volley of gunfire while the victim ran away, officials said.
Brian Fletcher ran the town between 2005 and 2011. he wants another shot, but he thinks the city is doing just fine as it is.
The 15-year effort required help, money and patience from two countries, one state and a railroad operator.
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