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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.
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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.
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Gov. Rick Scott and his cabinet face a case alleging that they broke the state's Sunshine Law when they fired Florida Department of Law Enforcement Commissioner Gerald Bailey.
At a Congressional hearing, the Indiana governor, who could be a presidential contender, touted his state as a national leader and expressed his support for diminishing the federal role in schools.
Rick Snyder backer John Yob joins the fight against a sales tax hike proposed by the politician he twice helped elect to office.
Gov.John Kitzhaber is already enacting policies Cylvia Hayes was paid to promote.
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Gov. Larry Hogan used his first State of the State address to follow through on a campaign promise, vowing Wednesday to push for tax relief for small businesses, motorists and some retirees, and to seek repeal of a controversial stormwater fee.
Declaring it's "make or break time," Gov. Bruce Rauner used his first State of the State speech Wednesday to lay out a comprehensive conservative agenda aimed at repairing the state by helping businesses while putting the brakes on the power of organized labor.
Gov. Bruce Rauner wants to give cities, towns and counties the authority to file for bankruptcy protection, a move that could give local governments a stronger foothold when negotiating with local police and fire officials over costly pension obligations.
A case headed for a Staten Island courtroom on Thursday that seeks to unlock grand jury evidence in the police killing of Eric Garner is part of a national push to pry from law enforcement information long kept secret.
Health insurance giant Anthem Inc. said late Wednesday that hackers had breached its computer system and the personal information of tens of millions of customers and employees was possibly at risk.
Cleveland police have begun wearing body cameras as part of a program to outfit 1,500 officers with the devices, the department announced Wednesday, nearly 10 weeks after a city police officer shot and killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old who was holding a toy gun.
In 1993, Lisa Bashert's partner proposed to her by phone, popping the question while she was at work.
Proportion of states’ total economic activity accounted for by federal spending.
Tennessee lawmakers ended the special legislative session called by Gov. Bill Haslam to consider his health insurance plan for the working poor Wednesday afternoon after a Senate committee killed the plan on a 4-7 vote.
In the past decade, heroin abuse has exploded—and it is hitting white people in suburbs and rural areas particularly hard. As the demographics of heroin use have changed, so have states’ efforts to combat the problem.
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