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New York City preschoolers will be heading back to class next week with memories of new holiday toys, vacation adventures, and, health officials hope, a flu shot.
For years, Wenjian Liu called his father each day to assure him he was safe and had survived another day as a New York City police officer.
Most businesses in Illinois will soon be required by law to adopt a retirement savings plan for employees, under a bill Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law Sunday.
California's bullet-train agency will officially start construction in Fresno this week on the first 29-mile segment of the system, a symbol of the significant progress the $68-billion project has made against persistent political and legal opposition.
A new federal law aims to balance innovation and efficiency. It could serve as a guide for other levels of government.
The latest effort to resuscitate the New Jersey city isn't relying on tax giveaways alone.
Public meetings have their place — and they have their drawbacks. More governments are relying on useful apps to harvest ideas and feedback.
Total amount in bonuses given to the staff of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer last year, despite a half-billion-dollar budget deficit in 2014 and a $1-billion deficit for the next fiscal year.
Joe Crosby, a lobbyist with MultiState Associates, on changes coming to state government in 2015.
The Texas governor had a toll road plan “as Big as Texas.” Then things got complicated.
Here's what technology experts are saying - along with my naughty and nice labels.
Heading into a fourth term, California's governor has been talking about both his mortality and his family's historic ties to the state.
About a year ago, Philadelphia Police Chaplain Luis Centeno was approached by Stephen McWilliams, who teaches a social documentary film class at Villanova University.
Undoubtedly hoping to quell criticism from the police force, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio met with police union leaders Tuesday as the city prepared to bury a second slain officer this weekend.
Kansas public schools remain under-funded, a three-judge panel said Tuesday, moving the state closer to a budget and constitutional crisis over taxes and state spending.
Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican who governed as a fiscal conservative, doled out $160,000 in bonuses to 22 staff members this year despite a state budget crunch, records obtained Tuesday by The Arizona Republic show.
Indiana voters could find something unusual on the ballot in 2016 under a measure state lawmakers will consider next year.
Radical environmentalist or agriculture industry shill? The only thing consistent about the politician's role as California's water referee is that the fights have left bruises on the exacting and thick-skinned senator over the years.
Mendocino High School rescinded its ban on a group of high school basketball players who had planned to wear "I Can't Breathe" T-shirts during warm-ups in a tournament.
The Ku Klux Klan loses an appeal on handing pamphlets to drivers in Desloge, Mo.
Police officers killed by firearms accounted for 50 deaths in the last 12 months.
Vermont Yankee nuclear power station moves to full retirement amid growing competition from cheap natural gas.
Developers say the future of what was once an industrial hub is finally under way, with half-a-dozen downtown residential developments having received financing, broken ground or been completed in the New Jersey city in the past year.
The Arizona senator’s team has been ridding the state’s GOP apparatus of his tea party foes.
The bill would have offered a two-year “safety net” to teachers and principals who were given one of the two lowest ratings on the state’s new evaluation system. But Cuomo indicated he wanted to make the teacher evaluation system more rigorous.
Prosecutors have found that one law firm has made substantial payments to the State Assembly speaker, Sheldon Silver, over roughly a decade, but that he did not list that income on his annual financial disclosure forms, as required.
The success of the state's health plan comes with new obstacles.
Prices have surged after heavy snowfalls last winter depleted salt reserves.
Chris Christie and Andrew Cuomo rejected legislation passed in their states and instead threw their support behind a string of reforms to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey proposed by a bi-state panel.
Some responded negatively to New York City's mayor at an event inside Madison Square Garden to honor 884 cadets who were graduating from the New York Police Department’s academy.
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