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Lincoln Trail College in Robinson, Ill., will enroll its first fracking students this fall.
With his trip to Idaho on Wednesday, he's only got three left to go.
As Dallas has learned with a gold-plated pension enhancement, it would be smarter to just pay better salaries.
The guide's action-oriented framework supports a spirit of adventure and change in urban communities.
Most states refused to keep funding a pay raise for Medicaid doctors this year, but the first national study of the policy shows it increased low-income patients' access to primary care.
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In his State of the Union, the president proposed expanding a program that encourages state and local governments to pay for infrastructure projects with public-private partnerships.
Despite holding far fewer seats overall, the Democrats have more governorships to defend than the Republicans.
In an unprecedented moment of candor, Florida's newly installed prisons chief told a Senate committee that private contractors have provided inadequate medical care to Florida's inmates while crumbling infrastructure and years of staffing cuts have fostered "culture" problems in the massive agency.
A bankruptcy judge Tuesday dismissed an effort to keep Stockton mired in bankruptcy while a creditor challenges a decision that lets the city pay its CalPERS pension bills in full.
A marijuana fight is headed back to the Colorado statehouse.
More than 5,000 people in the rural Montana city of Glendive have been told not to use municipal water because elevated levels of cancer-causing benzene were found downstream from a weekend crude oil spill into the Yellowstone River.
In a clash between the First Amendment and judicial ethics code, the Supreme Court debated Tuesday whether to free elected judges to personally ask for campaign contributions from voters, including lawyers and others who might one day find themselves in their courtroom.
In her annual State of the State address on Tuesday, Gov. Susana Martinez outlined her wish list for the 2015 legislative session, including higher pay for new teachers, a large highway spending package, more money to help lure businesses to the state and more funds for job-training programs.
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Despite making frequent calls for bipartisanship, President Obama delivered a State of the Union address that was clearly, and unsurprisingly, a call to arms in favor of Democratic priorities.
New mayoral fellowships give graduate students city governance experience and mayors much-needed extra help.
The case could halt private lawsuits against state Medicaid agencies over doctor pay.
Madison Turner told Atlanta's Channel 2 Action News he had no idea he could be ticketed for eating a hamburger.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that a Muslim prisoner has a religious-freedom right to grow a half-inch beard.
New York's governor proposals would expand and codify into law policies he laid out in October after a New York City emergency-room doctor who had been treating Ebola was diagnosed with the virus after returning home.
Former federal prosecutor Steven Levin, referring to how FBI agent Matthew Lowry repeatedly stole heroin from evidence bags for personal use, leading prosecutors to dismiss charges against 28 defendants.
Vice President Biden, telling a crowd that he believes Washington, D.C., should be granted statehood.
Amount of time a schizophrenic inmate in North Carolina was held in solitary confinement before dying of thirst last March.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, voicing his opposition to so-called “no-go zones” where countries supposedly cede control of certain areas to autonomous Muslim immigrants. Fox News recently issued several corrections after a guest’s assertion that “no-go zones” exist in Britain and France. There is no designation of such places in either country.
In health insurance prices, as in the weather, Alaska and the Sun Belt are extremes. This year Alaska is the most expensive health insurance market for people who do not get coverage through their employers, while Phoenix, Albuquerque, N.M., and Tucson, Ariz., are among the very cheapest.
In Atlanta, about 200 young demonstrators sat down in the middle of Peachtree Street, not far from the annual Martin Luther King's Birthday commemoration at Ebenezer Baptist Church, and briefly stopped the parade.
The disposal of waste saltwater from hydraulic fracturing could be to blame for a sharp increase in earthquakes in south-central Kansas, according to a geophysicist with the Kansas Geological Survey.
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