News
New Fraud-Detection-as-a-Service continues to “learn” over time, uncovering emerging fraud methods.
More than 80 years after Prohibition ended at the national level, Arkansas voters will decide in November whether to keep their state dry.
At one point, the city was home to 22 potato chip manufacturers. But just as the Detroit auto industry declined, so did the chip business.
This year, the state aggregated claims and electronic medical record data and patient satisfaction surveys.
Some patients with health insurance are struggling to pay for prescription drugs for conditions such as cancer, arthritis, multiple sclerosis or HIV/AIDS, as insurers and employers shift more of the cost of high-priced pharmaceuticals to the patients who take them.
Hours that Lenoir City, Tenn., made a resident spend in jail this week for failure to properly maintain her yard. The woman ignored multiple orders to clean her property over the last decade.
How can 32 Chicago inspectors monitor 15,000 restaurants? Figuring out which ones aren't likely to pass inspection is a good start.
A federal appeals panel has overturned a 2006 Arizona law aimed at denying bail to people who are in the U.S. illegally and charged with a range of felonies.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued a temporary stay halting same-sex marriage in Alaska Wednesday, a day after a lower court denied a similar request.
Arkansas' voter identification law crumbled Wednesday when the state's Supreme Court upheld a lower court's decision to strike down the law.
Confronted by a gunman just blocks from the state Capitol, a legislator from Northeastern Pennsylvania pulled his own weapon and traded fire with a would-be robber.
In the weirdest start of a gubernatorial debate, Florida Gov. Rick Scott initially refused to take the stage Wednesday night because Democrat Charlie Crist insisted on a fan to keep him cool.
The California Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for further construction of the state's $68-billion bullet train when it declined to hear an appeal filed by Central Valley opponents of the controversial project.
With little money and swimming against the tide in conservative Texas, Democrat Sam Houston has little choice but to campaign for attorney general "the old fashioned way" — on the cheap, and largely from the front seat of his Toyota Prius.
Neel Kashkari and Jerry Brown trade barbs over personal wealth.
Having failed to defeat Walker with an all-out ideological battle in the recall, party officials felt this year that their best course was to woo the middle of the electorate. Can it work?
For abortion foes, the new effort is a well-funded strategy to legislate abortion out of existence state by state.
Number of new HIV cases this year in North Dakota. The state has one of the nation's lowest HIV rates, but its number of cases has grown rapidly since the oil boom prompted people from around the country to flock there for jobs.
The state is the first to let voters decide whether to make experimental drugs available to terminally ill patients -- a growing movement that started in a few state legislatures this year.
H. Philip West, former director of the good government group Common Cause, warning the city of Providence, R.I., that it would likely face serious legal and financial consequences if voters elect Buddy Cianci mayor again. Cianci served four and a half years in federal prison after being convicted of running City Hall as a criminal enterprise in the 1990s.
A poor economy and tax increases in one of the wealthiest states have made the Democratic governor one of the most vulnerable incumbents in the country.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, in a speech last week at the NAACP New Jersey State Convention. He said he would be bored in the Senate and promised never to run for office in New Jersey again.
The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday evening ordered Texas to stop enforcing part of the state's strict new abortion law until a legal challenge has been settled, at least temporarily allowing more than a dozen clinics to immediately reopen.
Texas should require photo voter identification in this year’s general election, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday, overturning an earlier ruling by a federal district judge in Texas.
With an improving fiscal climate, many states are increasing benefits for Medicaid recipients and paying their providers more.
Taking six bribes in 13 months will cost former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon almost four years of his life.
While North Dakota has one of the lowest HIV prevalence rates in the nation, the number of cases in the state has grown significantly in just a few years, mirroring rapid population growth as workers from around the country flock to jobs in the state's oil boom.
Three former U.S. attorneys and a former director of Common Cause Rhode Island said Tuesday that Providence faces serious legal and financial problems if Cianci, who served four and a half years in federal prison after being convicted of running City Hall as a criminal enterprise in the 90s, becomes mayor.
States that heavily rely on income taxes are having a hard time crafting budgets as income tax revenue has become unstable from year to year.
An error in Dallas may have exposed many people to Ebola, CDC chief says.
Most Read
