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The town also agreed to pay $500,000 to the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which filed the suit in 2012, to cover legal fees and costs.
Lawyers for the states told the appellate panel it should disregard the high court's 42-year-old Roe v. Wade decision.
Residents confront difficult questions after a midwife asks about infant deaths.
At least two families are suing Newtown, saying that lax security led to shooting deaths.
An incident at L'Enfant Plaza Monday killed one person and hospitalized dozens more.
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Once tightly controlled by commercial publishers, legal codes are becoming more accessible online, thanks to the open data movement.
Education, economy, transportation were all highlights in the governor's 2015 State of the State speech.
Read and watch the governor's annual address.
New Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey moved Monday to make good on a campaign promise to shrink state government, announcing a hiring freeze and promising new systems for cutting waste and inefficiencies in schools and state operations.
Read and watch the governor's annual address.
Post Falls, Idaho, Police Chief Scott Haug, who was forced to issue an arrest warrant for a nine-year-old boy who failed to show up to his assigned court date for stealing a pack of gum. Haug said the child didn't come to court because his relatives had no way of getting him there.
Gov. John Kitzhaber stood before a full House chamber at the Oregon State Capitol on Monday morning as he was sworn in for a historic fourth term, following the inauguration of new and veteran legislators.
The decline in the number of marijuana seizures by U.S. officers along the Mexico border from 2011 to 2014. States' decriminalization of marijuana is leading Mexican cartels to shift to heroin and methamphetamine production.
A new GAO report says the nation's largest cash assistance program fails to incentivize states to help people find work.
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Gubernatorial pardons have been in decline since the 1980s, but that appears to be changing as views evolve on rehabilitation and drug offenses.
In the wake of high-profile data breaches, President Obama proposed legislation to require companies to notify customers within 30 days of discovering that their personal information was exposed to hackers.
A mistrial was declared nearly 12 hours after the jury of nine women and three men started deliberating in the murder trial of a white former police chief charged in the killing of an unarmed black man.
Bruce Rauner took over as Illinois governor Monday and asked for shared sacrifice to help him restore a state he described as in decline, beset by financial, moral and ethical crises.
A convicted pedophile's complaint about Nevada prison food has the state Supreme Court ordering an accounting of what's in unnamed sack lunches and "chef's choice" dinners given to inmates, and whether the meals are healthful.
One person died and dozens more were taken to hospitals after smoke filled a subway tunnel and a major Metro station in Washington, D.C., on Monday afternoon and forced evacuations, officials said.
The president's plan has met opposition or indifference, but the Tennessee program that inspired it is already catching on in other states.
A new National Association of Counties report depicts an economic recovery that hasn't yet been realized at the local level in much of the country.
And they’ve had remarkable success in mobilizing users to work for them.
Under new policy, if police suspect a person to be mentally ill they will, essentially, just back off.
Rural hospitals have long struggled financially. But threats to their survival have intensified in recent years _ falling patient volumes, aging populations, and payment cuts by government programs and commercial insurers.
He says business as usual would be "morally corrupt."
Congressman Chris Van Hollen unveiled a proposal to, among other things, incentivize saving, ease the cost of child care, and stabilize the growing income gap.
Alanna Panas, who was kicked out of Berlin, Md.'s Ocean Downs Casino for breastfeeding her newborn in the building's lobby.
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