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State or local government employees giving out same-sex marriage licenses would stop receiving their salaries under a bill filed Wednesday for the 84th legislative session.
With just days left before he leaves office, Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn granted 232 clemency requests Friday -- including his first-ever pardon based on innocence.
Now it is Risa Vetri Ferman's time to decide whether a case against a public official is good enough to prosecute.
Gov. Scott Walker and his fellow Republicans in the Legislature are walking away from a gas tax hike proposed by Walker's transportation secretary.
Health insurer Anthem Inc on Thursday said it reached a deal under which Gilead Sciences Inc's hepatitis C drug Harvoni will be the primary treatment for patients infected with the most common strain of the liver-destroying virus.
In each instance, the agency, the Civilian Complaint Review Board, recommended stiff discipline. However, in the cases that have been decided so far, officers were given little or no punishment by the Police Department.
Through the City Accelerator, Louisville, Ky., Nashville, Tenn., and Philadelphia are adapting how they do business in order to produce materially different results.
There are better ways to handle a situation like the one that has ignited a firestorm at the University of Virginia.
We say we want professional management in the public sector, but it's in the interest of neither politicians nor public employees.
Bobby White, founder and executive director of charter school operator Frayser Community Schools in Memphis, Tenn., on the characteristics he's looking for in teachers.
If fans of Dr Pepper and the Fort Worth Zoo don't get it in gear, their chance to buy specialty license plates might soon be gone. The Houston Rockets are hanging by a thread.
New census figures show people have started returning to recovering housing markets in the South and West.
Medical bills threaten to undermine Gov. Jerry Brown's efforts to strengthen state finances--his central promise of the past four years.
The ironic bridge will close for the weekend for upgrades. The 52-hour closure is the longest for the Golden Gate bridge since it opened in 1937.
The court rules that Gov. Dave Heineman has the authority to approve the project’s route without review by a state agency.
"The police are merely a representative of a government formed by the people for the people—for all people," Steve Anderson writes.
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Portion of Vermont schools identified as not making Adequate Yearly Progress. Vermont is one of eight states that didn't get a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law and must follow its complicated school improvement processes.
Ohio will switch its lethal injection protocol, adding thiopental sodium, a drug used previously, and dropping the two-drug regimen of midazolam and hydromorphone that caused problems in the last execution a year ago.
Take-out food packaging will look a little different in New York City after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Thursday a ban on plastic foam containers and packing peanuts.
The group opposed to Boston's bid to host the 2024 Summer Games is vowing to launch a ballot initiative or push for state legislation to prevent Bay State taxpayers from having to foot the bill for the Olympics.
Peter Shumlin has been re-elected Vermont governor by state Legislature, 110-69, over Republican challenger Scott Milne.
Congressional Republicans renewed their assault Thursday on the Affordable Care Act, as the House passed legislation to redefine the law's definition of full-time work, a key detail that would affect how employers must provide health benefits to workers.
Utah will still not be allowed to require Medicaid recipients to work, even though the president has offered Utah Gov. Gary Herbert more flexibility on the issue, federal officials said Wednesday.
President Barack Obama rolled out a new plan Thursday to make two years of community college free, or nearly so, for millions of students across the country, a major investment that the White House cast as changing the face of higher education.
Innovation is needed to make democracy work.
The state supreme court hears arguments in one teen's battle over forced medial treatment.
Lawmakers this year are looking to join a growing movement to preemptively prohibit "Palcohol."
The governor characterized the state as "back with a vengeance."
Read and watch the governor's annual address.
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