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State judicial campaigns once were typically sedate affairs, little noticed outside of bar association dinners, but that is changing rapidly under a new wave of campaign spending driven by outside political groups and unlimited donations.
Most states now have data-driven programs to combat an exploding number of sham tax refund filings, false Medicaid and unemployment claims and public assistance fraud that can cost governments billions of dollars.
A roundup of money (and other) news governments can use.
Vermont's election was so close that the legislature must decide who wins when it convenes next year. If it's Gov. Shumlin as expected, many question what he can accomplish with so many unpopular programs.
Police made dozens more arrests overnight and used tear gas to break up crowds after another police car burned early Wednesday.
Regents of the system are considering unusual measures to deal with insufficient state funding.
Judges Kristine Baker in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Carlton Reeves in Jackson, Mississippi, ruled that the bans on gay matrimony denied guarantees of equal protection under the law for gay couples.
Four Midwestern governors are all considering bids for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, looking to run on success stories to revive the party’s Reagan Democrat coalition and speak to the middle class in a way Mitt Romney could not.
The first law of its kind prohibits chain stores from altering a worker’s schedule without two weeks notice.
Statewide, there are at least 32,000 Somalis as Minnesota, like many other states, adjusts to a second wave of immigration that is transforming the nation and our education system.
D.C. Council advances the stadium, but pitfalls remain before the project can proceed.
Outgoing Gov. Martin O’Malley says he is ready to allow hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas from Western Maryland, with various restrictions.
Rating systems would track job placement and retention rates of graduates of teaching programs and the academic performance of their students.
Thousands of young performers fill the city's hotels in preparation for the event.
Municipalities and banks are getting friendlier, and it's starting to irk credit rating agencies.
The project will come out next year, providing access to some schools, fire stations and more private companies.
In an effort to reduce carcinogen exposure, Kathy Crosby-Bell wants washing machines added to Boston firehouses.
Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran has been suspended without pay after employees complained he had written a book in which he described homosexuality as a “sexual perversion” akin to bestiality.
Mayor Luigi Boria said businesses will sponsors the event, trying to ease residents’ concerns that the $2.5 million the city committed won’t come from taxpayer dollars.
The federal civil investigation into the Ferguson Police Department will continue and has the potential to result in some very significant reforms.
Washington area budget problems spark a move to break free from federal spending.
The Democratic National Committee said on Monday that it had narrowed its list of possible convention sites in 2016 to Columbus, Ohio; New York City; and Philadelphia.
Word of the decision set off a new wave of anger among hundreds who had gathered outside the Ferguson Police Department. Police officers in riot gear stood in a line as demonstrators chanted and threw objects toward them as the news spread.
UVA has drawn fire for its unsteady response to a report, published last week by Rolling Stone, that even students who had admitted to sexual assault had invariably escaped expulsion.
The grand jury decides that there will not be charges against Darren Wilson in the Ferguson, Mo., shooting.
Less than three months after losing control over $30 million in federal spending, Oklahoma again has a waiver from the 2001 law.
A new report advocates more programs that address the needs of parents and children simultaneously.
Excerpt from a petition filed to block the execution of Scott Panetti, a mentally ill man scheduled to die by lethal injection in Texas on Dec. 3. Panetti, who was convicted of kiling his in-laws, tried to call President John F. Kennedy and Jesus Christ as witnesses and wore a purple cowboy suit and a 10-gallon hat to court during his trial.
Everyone used to dry-farm wine grapes until the late 1970s, when irrigation was introduced.
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