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Guards at San Francisco's main county jail orchestrated "gladiator-style" fights between inmates.
Some lenders are going back to their roots and making money lending to small and mid-size manufacturers.
The “homeless billionaire,” a world-renowned architect and the future of Brick City.
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff has cancelled all programs that requires employees to travel to Indiana.
The former home of the Seattle Seahawks NFL team and the Seattle Mariners baseball team, was imploded on March 26, 2000. The county that financed the Kingdome says it has collected enough money to finally pay off what it owes on the building.
The line for free seeds at the event, intended to promote home growing, snaked through the Adams Morgan neighborhood in the nation’s biggest legal marijuana giveaway
Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been asking the school to change the name of Saunders Hall for years, but with national events such as the shooting in Ferguson, Mo., setting off strong emotions about race, campus protests have picked up urgency.
Gov. Mike Pence declared a public health emergency on Wednesday after 79 new cases of H.I.V. were confirmed in Scott County.
Development plans set off a preservation fight over a 65-year-old mural in a condemned building.
A powerful explosion in the East Village caused two buildings to collapse and ignited a fire that injured at least 19 people.
A health food store employee and a coworker say the Chicago mayor is a notoriously bad tipper, and once left a 37-cent tip on a seven-dollar shake.
The state hasn't yet found a way to fix its depleted transportation funding system. Nearly all the state's transportation money is dedicated to paying off more than $18 billion in debt, with little left for maintenance projects or new construction.
Many poor towns want the fracking money Pennsylvania has, regardless of health risks.
Cost of Louisiana's entertainment tax credits for every $1 of state revenue the credits generate.
Astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson, on Florida's alleged ban on using the words "climate change" and "global warming" in government communications.
America's Playground is running low on cash and faces key debt payments over the next three months.
Chicago voters turned out in large numbers for the first two days of early voting ahead of the mayoral runoff, and suburban voters in the upcoming election will get newly designed stickers to show everybody they cast ballots, election officials announced.
A state House committee unanimously rejected a proposal to legalize medical marijuana after an emotional hourlong hearing that ended with a legislator saying he was assaulted by a marijuana advocate.
A bill that overhauls the way schools are funded in Kansas was signed by Gov. Sam Brownback in a closed ceremony Wednesday.
After Republican and Democratic leaders could not agree on a proposal that linked immigration reform with an education tax credit in Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s proposed budget, the governor said on Tuesday that both would be dropped as negotiations continued.
The Supreme Court's conservative justices sharply questioned the high cost of a new Obama administration environmental regulation Wednesday, raising the prospect they may block the strict emissions standards for coal-fired power plants.
The Supreme Court delivered a rare victory for minority voting rights Wednesday, finding that a 2012 Alabama redistricting plan appeared to violate federal law by shifting black voters into districts they already dominated to dilute their influence elsewhere.
New Census Bureau data shows which counties are gaining and losing residents.
We need to re-think the military-style model and find ways to make law-enforcement agencies reflect the communities they serve.
Mobile technology has made a belated but much needed debut in human services.
There are some useful ways to look at what's happening in the local economy and separate the reality from the cultural buzz.
While politicians easily offer policy prescriptions, they often fail to ask how they will be paid for.
Even though states spend more on payroll than anything else, many governors no longer look to human resources for advice on their workforce.
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