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Using "prior learning assessment," it's Pennsylvania's first effort to standardize the process of giving credit for life, and comes as other states are looking at their systems.
Some municipalities have made 21 the legal age, but Rhode Island would be the first state.
A problem with a contract in 2013 deprived the stores of scratch tickets and cost $6 million in lost gambling revenue last year.
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Laura Zeilinger talks about why homelessness is on the rise in the district and what the Bowser administration is doing about it.
A legislative panel has defeated a measure to require South Dakota businesses to offer workers paid sick leave.
Kansas is the latest state moving to reduce its prison population and cut costs, but parallel legislation stiffening penalties for some crimes may nullify the effort.
Arkansas' first-in-the-nation program using federal funds to buy private health insurance for the poor will survive another year after the Legislature reauthorized the program Thursday, despite an influx of new Republican lawmakers elected on a vow to kill the hybrid Medicaid expansion.
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore late Sunday distributed a ruling intended to bar the state's probate judges from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples on Monday.
Expedia, the leader in U.S. online-travel bookings, is fighting an outstanding hotel-room tab of more than $800 million.
In a new challenge to police practices in Ferguson, Mo., a group of civil rights lawyers is suing the city over the way people are jailed when they fail to pay fines for traffic tickets and other minor offenses.
To optimize children's chances to grow and learn, it's crucial to bring together partners from across the community.
Too many of our international students go back home after they graduate. There's a lot more that we could be doing to keep them.
Collins was taken off life support and died today, city officials say.
State law typically reigns, but schools often have some emergency powers.
An emergency dispatcher to a 13-year-old girl who called 911 after her father was struck and killed while changing a tire on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway last Sunday.
The amount Washington, D.C., spent on memorial services for former Mayor Marion Barry, who died in November.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
New York City's decade-long, multi-billion dollar effort to overhaul its 911 system is $700 million over budget and years behind schedule due to a series of mistakes made by former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, according to a Department of Investigation report.
State lawmakers in California introduced legislation Wednesday that would require children to be fully vaccinated before going to school, a response to a measles outbreak that started in Southern California and has reached 107 cases in 14 states.
Engineers and transportation safety experts around the world are working to reduce the dangers of grade-level rail crossings like the one in Valhalla, N.Y., that was the scene of a deadly accident Tuesday evening. But human behavior and the laws of physics can defeat even the safest system, researchers say.
After pledging last month to cut more than 6 percent from state agency spending, Gov. Bill Walker on Thursday revealed just how he’d do that, releasing a proposal that trims $240 million in part by cutting 250 of the state’s 22,000 full-time employees.
Federal investigators are looking into a former county prosecutor’s allegation in a lawsuit that he was fired because he complained about the dropping of an indictment that involved a donor to Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder was admitted to an Ann Arbor area hospital Thursday with a blood clot in his right leg, where he has been wearing a protective boot due to a torn Achilles tendon, a spokeswoman said.
See neighborhood maps and gentrification data for Portland.
Average increase between 1997 and 2014 in the value of a house located within a half-mile radius of a Starbucks in the United States.
Scott Walker changes would have struck pieces about state outreach, improving the human condition and pursuing truth in favor of more narrowly defining state campuses as agents of workforce development.
Reporter Will Sommer, revealing that Christopher Barry, who's running for the Washington, D.C., City Council, has never voted in a D.C. race -- including the six in which his father, the late Mayor Marion Barry, was a candidate.
North Carolina's governor announced plans to create jobs, raise both expectations and rewards for educators, undertake ambitious transportation improvements.
Read and watch the speech here.
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