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Police were working Monday to piece together the final days and hours of Robert "Spence" Jackson's life, as Missouri Republicans struggled to make sense of the second suicide of a prominent state party member in four weeks.
A North Carolina program that uses GPS systems to monitor sex offenders will get scrutinized again by the state's highest court.
The tax Utahns pay for a gallon of gas will be headed up by a nickel and could climb higher in the future, after Gov. Gary Herbert signed into law Friday a nearly $76 million increase to the state fuel tax.
Republican leaders in the Indiana General Assembly said Monday they are looking at options to clarify the state's controversial religious freedom law, though they don't believe the law would allow discrimination against gays and lesbians as opponents fear.
Powdered alcohol, a product marketed as a fast way to mix and carry drinks on the go, will be taxed and regulated like liquid booze in Colorado with a bill signed into law Monday by Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper.
Indiana state House Minority Leader Scott Pelath, on passage of the Republican-sponsored 'religious freedom' law that prompted a backlash and boycott from groups and governments across the country.
The tribe begins a 2 percent tax on junk food in an attempt to curb rampant obesity, diabetes and heart disease, the first of its kind nationwide.
The proposal would allow companies with factory and mercantile workers to schedule employees to work seven days in a row with no 24-hour rest period.
A year-long probe by the Department of Health and Human Services found no fraud or criminal wrongdoing, but auditors said the state lacked oversight and internal controls.
Hiker Nick Herron, referring to a ridge in the Santa Monica Mountains that now features a piano. The instrument was a mystery to hikers for a week until cinematographer Michale Flotron explained that the piano was there for a music video. The land likely belongs to a water district and no agency is technically responsible for furniture removal there, but Flotron said he would take the piano back down if necessary.
There's a lot more to it than a light bulb moment. It won't happen without the basic foundations in place.
Number of Washington, D.C., students (out of 47,548) who applied in the first round to attend a school different from the one in their neighborhood for 2015-16.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley sounded Sunday like someone who plans to challenge Hillary Rodham Clinton in Democratic primaries.
It's a simple question -- but also one of the most contentious in Indiana, which is under siege by LGBT activists urging a boycott of the state.
Standing in the basement dining room of a West Loop Greek restaurant Sunday afternoon, Mayor Rahm Emanuel accepted the endorsement of one of his chief antagonists -- former mayoral candidate and outgoing 2nd Ward Ald. Bob Fioretti.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders on Sunday night reached an agreement on the next state budget, capping weeks of deliberations over issues like deterring public corruption and improving public schools.
Lawyers representing Wichita and 47 other Kansas school districts petitioned a court Thursday to block a new school finance law signed by Gov. Sam Brownback.
Since the Pennsylvania police arrested Anthony Kofalt last March for walking out of a Walmart with 21 boxes of Crest White Strips he had not paid for, his wife, Heather, has spent $3,000 — about $60 a week — on phone calls to the prisons and jails where he has been held.
Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham University law professor who ran unsuccessfully for governor of New York last year on an anticorruption platform.
Pay-for-success programs seem to hold promise as a way to find the up-front investments for programs that save money in the long run.
The utility industry's efforts to turn back the clean-energy revolution would block low-income communities from realizing the benefits.
Stress-testing state budgets makes it clear that they're not putting enough aside to cope with a downturn.
States haven't been enforcing laws to guarantee mental health coverage, but long-awaited federal guidelines and New York's aggressive approach could spur more to start.
Automatic vehicle location and passenger counting systems create data that can fine-tune the running of a transit system.
Keith Foster and four others were arrested on federal drug charges, was arrested on federal charges to distribute and/or possess with the intent to distribute oxycodone, heroin and marijuana.
There's growing skepticism about tax incentives to create local movie industries.
The governor says he wants to eliminate New Jersey's very high estate taxes, but the state has no alternative revenue source to make up the difference.
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Number of new HIV cases in Scott County, Ind., since mid-December, prompting the governor to declare a public health emergency last week.
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