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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.
Read and watch the governor's annual address.
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.
Gov. Rick Perry on Monday ensured that BP will not be able to take back a $5 million grant that sat unused – and seemingly forgotten – for years after the company gave it to Texas following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill.
The Cincinnati police chief urged morning commuters to plan ahead Tuesday after an interstate overpass undergoing demolition collapsed, killing one person and injuring another.
Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has been hospitalized following a horse-riding accident over the Christmas holidays in Africa that left him with seven broken ribs and fluid around his lungs, a spokesman said Monday.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, when asked in a radio interview about his failure to earn a college degree. The governor left Marquette University in his senior year to take a job.
Travis County prosecutors said Saturday they dropped several criminal investigations — including one involving no-bid state contracts — after the Texas governor ended their funding in 2013.
Yelp and Socrata have partnered to make the results of restaurant inspections public.
An $18 million LA County program called Housing for Health uses county Department of Health Services money to subsidize rents for the very sick among the county's 39,000 homeless people.
The law gives wide latitude for a self defense justification. Many in Florida think that's unjust and dangerous.
In less than a day's time, Republican Party leaders who are gathered here heard two prospective presidential candidates' versions of an argument that will persist through next year's primaries: whether breaking the party's losing streak when it comes to the White House requires a candidate from outside of Washington or inside, and whether that face needs to be fresh or familiar.
Flanked by a collection of liberal groups and labor leaders, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on Sunday announced a raft of proposals on social issues, among them a plan that would raise the minimum wage to $11.50 an hour in New York City and $10.50 an hour in the rest of the state.
As another storm flung snow at Chicago, Alexandra Clark wondered how she'd get to work. Like an increasing number of snowbound city dwellers, she had a ready tool at hand: an app that tracks hundreds of city snowplows in close to real time.
More than half of the nearly 8,000 people sent to Wisconsin's prisons in 2013 were locked up without a trial — and they weren't found guilty of new crimes.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, whose massive tax cuts became a cause célèbre for conservatives but threw his state’s budget into disarray, announced Friday that he would pursue tax increases.
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