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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.
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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."
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Reduction in criminal summons issued in New York City, compared to this time last year. Police union leaders denied an organized slowdown, but for the past two weeks, the NYPD drastically scaled back law enforcement.
Number of the 16 original directors of the state-based health exchanges that have resigned since the online marketplaces launched.
Headline on an editorial in a local Maryland paper after Frederick County Councilmember Kirby Delauter threatened to sue the newspaper for using his name without his permission. The tongue-in-cheek editorial proceeded to use Delauter's name another two dozen times and also spell out k-i-r-by-d-e-l-a-u-t-e-r using the first letter of each paragraph in the article.
After reporters had vanished from the anteroom on Tuesday afternoon, Kasim Reed opened the door to his private City Hall office and fired up his email account.
Yolanda Farrell lay mostly paralyzed in a nursing home, unable to feed or dress herself, when her homeless daughter persuaded her to move out.
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, giving his State of the State address that opened his second term Wednesday, said the state's traffic congestion is "unacceptable" and demands a bold new approach toward improving roads and railroad lines.
One arraignment courtroom instead of two. Clerks watching “Batman” on their computer screens and playing with their cellphones as they wait for something to happen. And Manhattan’s night court shutting down an hour early because there are no more cases to call.
The Obama administration is delaying rules aimed at curbing carbon emissions from power plants and will write a separate implementation plan for states that have threatened to refuse to submit their own.
Kirby Delauter, a Frederick County councilman, issued an apology Wednesday after he wrote on social media earlier this week threatening to sue The Frederick News-Post for publishing his name without permission, garnering national attention.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation has a new building, and can claim credit for the conservative makeup of the 2015 Legislature.
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At least 601 people in the U.S. died of influenza or pneumonia during the last week of 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, delivering the eulogy for his father, former Gov. Mario Cuomo, on Tuesday.
Value of Nike sneakers that a Massachusetts man gave as bail to Framingham District Court. The man said he lacked money for bail because he was going through a divorce, so the judge let him be creative.
Some states run their own insurance exchanges, while others leave it up to the federal government. A new study shows which model is cheapest for consumers.
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