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For legal commentators both for and against same-sex marriage -- and, apparently, for two of the Supreme Court's most conservative justices -- the court's refusal Monday to block same-sex marriages in Alabama foreshadowed a likely ruling within months to extend marriage rights to gays and lesbians nationwide.
Medicaid expansion was once again rejected by the Wyoming Legislature on Friday.
Gov. Wolf on Monday said he is dismantling his predecessor's alternative to Medicaid expansion and will move forward with the transition to traditional Medicaid insurance coverage for hundreds of thousands of low-income Pennsylvanians.
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum announced Monday that she has opened an investigation into the allegations of public corruption against Gov. John Kitzhaber and Cylvia Hayes.
Share of Indianapolis Public School students disciplined with out-of-school suspensions last year, which is one of the highest rates in America.
Fueled by low gas prices and deteriorating roads, at least a dozen states -- Democrat and Republican -- are considering increasing gas taxes this year.
Ernestine Chasing Hawk, on the Oneida Indian Nation's decision to open a casino in Chittenango, N.Y., the hometown of Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum, and call it Yellow Brick Road Casino. The Oneida Nation is leading a campaign to change the name of the Washington Redskins, deeming it offensive, though in the course of his career, Baum wrote several articles urging the total annihilation of American Indians.
Cassie Lauterette of Loudoun County, Va. Despite being one of the most affluent communities in the United States, it's facing a school budget shortage and has proposed offering full-day kindergarten only by charging parents a fee.
Opponents of the latest bill argue that there’s little evidence that recipients of welfare use their cash assistance to purchase drugs, and that drug testing won't help families in need.
His career as a city, state, and federal prosecutor pitted him against New York mobsters and politicians such as former Pennsylvania State Sen. Henry J. "Buddy" Cianfrani.
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.
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