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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.
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.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
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.
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