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Number of students, which is 17 percent of the total number enrolled, who stayed home sick with the flu last Tuesday in the Polk County, Ga., school system, leading the superintendent to cancel classes and start the winter break early.
"Bank On" programs and other innovative initiatives reduce the victimization of poor individuals.
Despite regional and local differences, officials from around the country see eye to eye on some important concerns.
After two years of watching gas-tax increases tank in the Legislature, Gov. Jay Inslee proposed Tuesday to take a new approach: Charge major polluters for the right to emit carbon.
The death penalty is on the decline in the United States in every conceivable category. Fewer states execute inmates, fewer executions are carried out and fewer people are sentenced to death in the first place.
With a 14-year drought in the Colorado River basin showing few signs of breaking, states along the river’s path are taking new steps this month to ensure that Lake Mead — the Colorado River reservoir that is the water source for much of the Southwest — does not fail them.
Uber, recently sued for allegedly making false claims about the safety of its ride-hailing service, Wednesday announced it had started a "global review" of its safety measures in November and says it plans to roll out new safety programs in 2015. But it's unclear what those programs will be.
Gov. Peter Shumlin has abandoned his plan to institute a single-payer health system in Vermont.
The governor of Oklahoma has the authority to withhold the release of certain documents from the public because of executive privilege, but that power is not absolute, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.
The city’s changes to one of its most dangerous streets follows an urban trend of making streets safer for pedestrians and bikers.
The media attention on Ferguson, Mo., one of the 90 jurisdictions in St. Louis County, has also brought attention to consolidation -- a touted solution to government ills.
Republicans not only swept the states in the fall, they’ve been building up a team of candidates to climb the political ranks.
With practically no legislation moving through Congress, the Washington press corps is beginning to focus on action in states and localities.
The midterm elections marked the return of divided government, with more than a third of states in split-power situations.
South Pittsburg, Tenn., passed a resolution on Dec. 9 that basically prohibits negative comments on social media, raising immediate First Amendment concerns.
A look back at four of this year's trends in public finance.
The state has had a de facto ban on the procedure for more than five years, predating Andrew Cuomo’s first term, but now it's official.
A big earthquake on the San Andreas Fault could destroy key sections of the aqueducts, cutting off the water supply for more than 22 million people in Southern California.
Miami, the heart of the Cuban exile community, reacted with a collective shock. Hardline opponents of the Castro regime lambasted the president for what they called a betrayal.
Amount NASA spent to construct a laboratory tower in Gulfport, Miss., that will never be used. The tower, completed in 2014, was designed to test a rocket program that was cancelled in 2010.
Percent of American eighth-graders who used an e-cigarette in the previous month, compared to 4 percent who had smoked an actual cigarette.
Aaron Monsey, a carpenter from Sterling, Va., when asked why he waited six months to claim his $1 million Powerball winnings. Monsey realized he won the day after the drawing, but waited until Monday to pick up his prize.
The blurred governance of Portland's streetcar system makes it hard to judge its success or failure.
Gov. Terry McAuliffe announced a package of proposed gun control measures Monday, saying Virginia should reinstate its one-handgun-a-month rule and tighten restrictions on who can carry a gun to target domestic abusers.
They have lobbied state attorneys general. They have hired former state attorneys general. They have even helped draft a menacing letter for one state attorney general.
The Sixth Amendment guarantees a right to counsel in criminal cases, but the Constitution does not provide a similar right in civil cases.
A federal appeals court has overturned a ruling ordering Massachusetts prison officials to provide taxpayer-funded sex-reassignment surgery for an inmate convicted of murder.
A court-appointed panel will now be asked to monitor the use of force by sheriff's deputies in Los Angeles County jails, part of a far-reaching settlement to a lawsuit alleging brutal beatings of inmates.
Los Angeles will purchase 7,000 cameras for police officers to wear while on patrol, making the city a laboratory in the use of devices that bring the promise of more transparent policing but also concerns about civilian privacy.
If history proves correct, then losing the presidency would help Democrats regain Congressional, gubernatorial and state legislative seats.
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