WASHINGTON — A controversial bill targeting public unions in Florida appears headed for failure, despite a last-minute lobbying effort by Republican Gov. Rick Scott (R). The legislation, SB 830, would prohibit state and local governments fr…
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The Indiana state legislature is on the verge of becoming the first state to block Medicaid reimbursements for low-income patients seeking basic health services at Planned Parenthood clinics. House Bill 1210, introduced by state Rep. Eric Tu…
Former Ohio State football player and ESPN analyst Kirk Herbstreit weighed in on the Jim Tressel scandal and said that if this happened to his former coach John Cooper, he would have been fired. Herbstreit called the situation a “black eye” …
Reporting from Sacramento– California voters want government employees to give up some retirement benefits to help ease the state’s financial problems, favoring a cap on pensions and a later age for collecting them, according to a new poll….
MINERAL WELLS, Texas — Since evacuating her lakeside Texas home, Jackie Fewell has turned her hotel room into the information hub for one of the state’s largest wildfires, working the phones and using the Internet to get the word out to wor…
Londra (Regno Unito) – Di seguito una lista delle carrozze che verranno usate per il matrimonio reale del principe William e Kate Middleton, il prossimo 29 aprile.State Landau del 1902: William e Kate faranno il loro primo viaggio come marito e moglie dall'abbazia di Westiminster a Buckingham Palace nella carrozza rossa e oro costruita per […]
A SUNY-Oswego student has been arrested for showing officers an area of his body where the sun doesn’t shine.Jacob Link, 21, was locked up after allegedly pulling his trousers south early Sunday morning in the presence of two state troopers…
By Tracy Baim, courtesy of the Windy City TimesLong-time lesbian activist Kelly Cassidy has been appointed to fill Illinois’ 14th District state representative on Chicago’s Far North Side. State Rep. Harry Osterman is leaving the post to ass…
COLUMBUS, Ohio — State by state, Republicans are moving at light speed on a conservative agenda they would have had no hope of achieving before the big election gains of November.The dividends are apparent after only a few months in of…
JACKSON, Miss. — Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, a potential 2012 Republican presidential candidate, played fast and loose with his state’s Medicaid enrollment numbers this week as he spoke in Washington and chatted up voters in the ea…
BURBANK, Calif. — The free ride is over for California legislators.With the state in a budget crisis, a state panel voted Thursday to end the decades-old practice of providing taxpayer-financed vehicles for Senate and Assembly members who w…
Libyan state TV aired a bizarre video of Muammar Gaddafi this week, in which the embattled leader is shown making victorious gestures to a crowd of supporters amidst a Tripoli motorcade. Though the Libyan capital was reportedly under air att…
(Reuters – Jim Forsyth) – The personal records of some 3.5 million Texans were inadvertently exposed after they were placed on a state computer server that was accessible to the public for about a year, state officials said on Monday.State C…
TRIPOLI, Libya — Hala Misrati once wrote romance tales about lost love. Now she’s the ferocious face of Libya’s regime, a star talk-show host on state TV lashing out daily against Moammar Gadhafi’s enemies.She railed against a Libyan w…
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The recent shooting of an Arizona congresswoman and threats against several California state lawmakers have prompted officials who guard state Assembly members to carry handguns full-time.California Assembly sergeants p…
COYLE, Okla. — In most years, the dark clouds over western Oklahoma in the spring would be bringing rain. This year, they’re more likely to be smoke from wildfires that have burned thousands of acres in the past month as the state and its f…
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State defensive coordinator known for his charitable work helping at-risk children, is being investigated by a state grand jury on allegations he indecently assaulted a teenage boy, …
TEHRAN, Iran — A state-owned news website says Iran’s broadcasting authority has banned Iranian TV channels from showing cooking programs that present recipes for foreign cuisine.Jamejamonline reported late Saturday that the deputy hea…
STARKVILLE, Miss. — Mississippi State coach Rick Stansbury has banned his team from using Twitter after players posted critical comments on the social networking website following Wednesday’s 75-61 loss to Alabama.Starting guard Ravern…
NEW YORK — Thomas Dold of Germany has won the Empire State Building Run-Up for a record sixth straight year.Wearing knee-high black socks and yellow sneakers, the 26-year-old Dold dashed up 86 flights of stairs on Tuesday in 10 minutes…
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is convening an unprecedented mass meeting of U.S. ambassadors.The top envoys from nearly all of America’s 260 embassies, consulates and other posts in more than 180 countries will…
Kansas State’s Jamar Samuels thought he had just made one of the plays of the game. With less than six minutes left in the first half against Kansas on Saturday, Kansas State star Jacob Pullen missed a jump shot in the lane. Samuels appeared…
We’re totally ready to turn the page on Michelle Obama McQueen Dressgate. For those of you not caught up, here’s the saga in a nutshell: the first lady wore British label Alexander McQueen to the State Dinner with China last week. Oscar de l…
President Obama stressed earmark elimination in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, but the message didn’t hit home with one of his closest allies, Harry Reid.In an interview with “NBC Nightly News,” the Senate majority leader said…
During an interview as surprising as a cold winter night in Alaska, Sarah Palin took issue with Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address.But TV stations in Anchorage still hire weather casters and Fox News still interviews Palin, who had so…
President Barack Obama’s State Of The Union Address for 2011 can be relived in full, both in video form and through reactions here, but for those seeking the full transcript of the speech, you can find it below.These are Obama’s official del…
The text of Republican response to the State of the Union address, delivered by Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.___Read More…
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SALT LAKE CITY — State lawmakers are debating whether to designate a semiautomatic pistol as the official gun of Utah, despite protests from people who believe it’s inappropriate because of recent mass shootings.The bill to make the Br…
The promise of technology heavily underpinned President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday, as he emphasized the importance of clean tech, broadband and science education in achieving his goal to “out-innovate, out-educate, an…
The promise of technology heavily underpinned President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address Tuesday, as he emphasized the importance of clean tech, broadband and science education in achieving his goal to “out-innovate, out-educate, an…
