state governments

NEW YORK (AP) — Former state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was convicted Monday in a $5 million corruption case that took down one of New York's mos...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — U.S. Justice Department attorneys are expected to fly to Minnesota on Sunday to investigate the killing of a black man that has pro...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A newly approved drug is being hailed as a major advance in treatment of cystic fibrosis, a life-threatening genetic disease th...

DEER LODGE, Mont. (AP) — A Montana man who spent three decades behind bars for a murder he says he did not commit walked out of prison Friday after th...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Radioactive well-water contamination could threaten some 1,400 people in a rural farming community if federal regulators allow the na...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidates on Friday swiftly condemned Donald Trump's call for requiring Muslims in the United States to reg...

PLEASANT POINT, Maine (AP) — Eighty-one years after a neglected tribal water supply caused a devastating outbreak of typhoid fever and a century after...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Officials in New York and New Jersey announced an agreement Thursday to create a corporation to oversee plans to build a new rail ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — When cotton balls were scattered outside the black culture center at the University of Missouri's flagship campus in 2010 in a cl...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The execution of a Missouri man was in limbo Wednesday following the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to halt the lethal injection short...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Two Michigan lawmakers who were forced from office over an extramarital affair and a convoluted cover-up scheme are running Tues...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The crime was stunningly gruesome: three convenience store workers in central Missouri beaten to death with a claw hammer during a ro...

CAIRO, Ill. (AP) — The only public health clinic in Illinois' poorest county is in a former synagogue off a largely abandoned main street, a bright sp...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Legislation signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown last year that offered more generous state tax incentives for film and TV product...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York's pooches may now venture onto restaurant patios under a new state law allowing restaurants to open outdoor dining areas ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The University of Mississippi quietly removed the state flag with its Confederate battle emblem from its place of honor on campu...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The operator of a closed radioactive waste dump that caught fire in southern Nevada had trouble over the years with leaky shipments a...

HOUSTON (AP) — After a drawn-out showdown between Houston's popular lesbian mayor and a coalition of conservative pastors, voters in the nation's four...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The man charged in the freeway killing of a 4-year-old girl in New Mexico had been previously arrested on aggravated battery,...

No executions will be scheduled in Oklahoma until at least next year, as the attorney general's office investigates why the state used the wrong drug ...