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A lawyer for the state faced skeptical questioning from Illinois Supreme Court justices Wednesday as she defended a landmark pension reform law by arguing that benefit cuts to public workers were a response to a financial emergency tied to the Great Recession.
Utah lawmakers and Mormon church leaders celebrated a landmark moment Wednesday night, when a bill banning discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people passed the state’s Republican-controlled legislature.
The new executive director of Get Covered Illinois is Karin Zosel, a former CIA intelligence officer and college director, the group said Tuesday.
A controversial powdered alcohol product called Palcohol, intended to be mixed into drinks, has gained approval from a federal agency.
Police Chief Thomas Jackson resigned Wednesday, saying he always wanted to do what's best for his community and realized that now meant leaving it.
Two St. Louis County police officers were shot outside the Ferguson Police Department during another night of protests in the troubled Missouri city, police confirmed early Thursday.
Robert Pondiscio, a senior fellow at the Fordham Institute, a conservative education think tank, on the state of civics education in America. Arizona and North Dakota recently made passing the U.S. citizenship exam a requirement for high school graduation, and similar bills are pending in 19 states.
Legislative efforts to punish judges for their rulings on the issue are destructive to an essential institution.
Timely disclosure of financial information could save states and localities a lot of money.
Republican Gov. Sam Brownback may be open to it, but the legislation faces daunting challenges.
The state Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the governor's Council on Affordable Housing wasn't effective.
Scott Walker now has at least two dozen staffers or consultants associated with his gubernatorial election committee and Our American Revival, his PAC.
Obamacare’s tenuous toehold in Montana appears to be growing no firmer. Despite a hearing crowded with supporters of the Democratic governor’s Medicaid expansion bill, Republican legislators have dealt the measure a likely death blow.
Turn on the faucet. Fill a glass with water. Drink it. Acts so commonplace you perform them without thinking twice.
Marijuana legalization got a boost on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as a trio of rising stars in the Senate launched an effort to rewrite federal drug laws.
Legislators have approved removing from a bill a mandatory repeal of the state's Common Core standards -- following great opposition from state education officials, who said the legislation could disrupt West Virginia's entire K-12 system, cost more than $100 million and threaten federal funding.
Ferguson city manager John Shaw, the city's most powerful official, resigned Tuesday night.
Utah will be able to use a firing squad to execute death row inmates when lethal-injection drugs are unavailable, as long as the governor signs a bill that cleared the state Senate on Tuesday.
As another Marketplace Fairness Act hits the U.S. Senate, supporters are urging the House speaker -- one of the idea's biggest roadblocks -- to do whatever necessary to pass it through Congress.
Human error and outdated technology have miscalculated thousands of prison sentences and cost some states millions of dollars.
Of all the steps taken since Washington legalized marijuana, North Bonneville's might be boldest.
The governor promised more than $11 million to complete 41 environmental projects, and then he changed his mind.
The politician's campaign logo includes map of Maryland — with a sliver of Virginia in it.
State officials says the problems with tests last week were due to a cyber attack.
A law passed in 2011 put endangered species in the comptroller's purview. The idea was that any time a Texas animal ends up on a federal endangered species list, industrial activity is in danger.
Number of collisions between Washington, D.C., streetcars (which aren't in operation for passengers yet) and motor vehicles since October.
Rural youths are nearly twice as likely to commit suicide as their urban counterparts, according to a study by Ohio State University researchers.
Florida Gov. Rick Scott on Monday denied that administrators in his Department of Environmental Protection were banned from using the terms "global warming" or "climate change."
The Missouri Supreme Court announced Monday that it will take the "extraordinary action" of reassigning all Ferguson municipal court cases to the circuit court, starting next week.
Starting next year, the federal government will require health insurers to give millions of Americans enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans or in policies sold in the federally run health exchange up-to-date details about which doctors are in their plans and taking new patients.
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