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Inmates on Utah's death row can now be executed by a firing squad, under new legislation signed into law by Gov. Gary Herbert on Monday.
A long-awaited U.S. Justice Department report on police shootings in Philadelphia concluded Monday that there is "significant strife between the community and the department," and recommended wholesale changes in procedures and training.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to Wisconsin's voter identification law, restoring the measure it had dramatically blocked ahead of last November's election but not in time for the April 7 ballot.
Eight years out of college, Gregory Jackson Jr. had ascended swiftly in the world of Washington politics — to swing-state director for President Obama in 2012, then to national field director for electing House Democrats.
In a Dallas Hilton conference room last summer, a few dozen state lawmakers from around the country gathered for a closed-door presentation about an all-American industry under threat.
Increase in out-of-state undergraduate applications to the University of Colorado, Boulder since the state opened its first recreational marijuana store last year.
Number of district court lawsuits filed in 2014 by Dale Maisano, an inmate in Florence, Ariz., serving time for aggravated assault. Most of the suits were over food and health quality issues.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, singing to the tune of Passenger's "Scare Away the Dark" after a speech in Council Bluffs, Iowa, where he touted his accomplishments as governor.
In partnership with a theater company, Minnesota towns are staging on-the-go plays to tell their history.
Adopted in 1913, it took the job of electing U.S. senators away from state legislatures.
Most cities already freely share ideas with others, but some are starting to sell their best practices to other local governments.
The nationwide pushback against the education standards hasn't been very successful.
Residents of Whittier, Alaska, have to take the elevator or stairs wherever they go in the wintertime.
Republican governors who want to make more people eligible for the low-income health insurance program face daunting obstacles nationally and in their GOP-controlled legislatures.
Bloomberg Philanthropies and other organizations have poured an unprecedented amount of money into making cities more innovative and collaborative. What happens when the money runs out?
Rhode Island’s first female governor won support for her leadership during historic snowstorms, but it’s unclear whether courts or lawmakers will side with her on major pension and budget issues.
For the first time in more than a century, Arkansas is completely controlled by Republicans. But the new governor has slowly and deliberately built bipartisanship in the legislature.
America's prison population has aged significantly, increasing the costs of incarceration. These four inmates show just some of the challenges older inmates bring.
Alaska lawmakers look to once-forbidden sources for money.
Homicide clearance rates don't always mean what they seem to mean.
Philadelphia School District had a great fear of leaks.
A recent diabetes study shows great benefits of the Affordable Care Act.
A new state law effective today will allow hunters to use suppressors on guns; permit Ohioans to buy rifles, shotguns and ammunition from any state; and implement a more-rigorous background check for concealed-carry permits.
A federal judge on Friday struck down a Wisconsin law requiring doctors performing abortions to get hospital-admitting privileges, concluding that the measure was enacted to bar women from getting abortions.
Gov. Rick Scott has denied reports that he unofficially banned the terms “climate change” and “global warming” from state reports and in official documents, but Florida Division of Emergency Management director Bryan Koon isn’t taking any chances.
Colorado is preparing to issue rebates to taxpayers for the first time in nearly 15 years.
Eleven days before federal agents searched state Auditor Troy Kelley's Tacoma home on March 16, they demanded records related to a state employee and longtime business partner of Kelley's whose name appears in an acrimonious lawsuit tied to Kelley's past business dealings.
Horror fiction writer Stephen King thinks Maine Gov. Paul LePage to "man up and apologize" after the Republican governor issued factually incorrect comments about the author's taxes.
A new report covering the national capital area could serve as a template for other regions to engage the public and deal with funding gaps.
Moving to a new, integrated system gave an Idaho county the tools it needed to cope with the real-estate bust.
