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State legislatures across the country will be convening in 2021 with a common theme at the center of their work.

Records obtained by The Associated Press show that governors worked closely with business interests as they weighed when and how to reopen their economies last spring

Federal officials have determined a bridge that collapsed and killed six people near Florida International University showed significant design errors and the state government should have conducted greater oversight because of the project’s complexity.

The blame shifting began even before the dust cleared from the March 15, 2018 collapse of what was to be Florida International University’s showcase pedestrian bridge over Southwest Eighth Street.

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A federal judge struck down a 2017 ban imposed by the city of Tampa, ruling that the city has no authority to regulate health professionals and only the state government can do that.

For thousands of asylum seekers, there are many ways to wait — and wait, and wait — at the threshold of the United States. Parents and children sleep in tents next to bridges leading to Texas for weeks on end, desperately hoping their names and numbers are called so they can be let in. Some immigrants complain of shakedowns and...

Millions of women have formed a chain across a southern Indian state to support gender parity, amid protests by Hindu priests and conservatives against women of menstruating age worshipping at one of the world’s largest Hindu pilgrimage sites. The Communist Party of India (Marxist), the ruling party in Kerala state, says Tuesday’s protest drew some 5.5 million women. The protest...

A nun and another worker at a shelter for unwed mothers run by Mother Teresa’s charity in eastern India have been arrested for allegedly selling a baby, police said Wednesday. Three other complaints were being investigated. An Indian couple had claimed they paid 120,000 rupees ($1,760) to Anima Indwar, who worked at the shelter run by the Missionaries of Charity,...

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement received a $1 million grant to pay salary and overtime expenses of first responders of the Parkland school shooting tragedy.

The weapons were discovered in a container along with pool heaters in the cargo area at the city’s international airport.

The state government of Arkansas plans to execute eight men over a period of 10 days in April because one of the key drugs in their lethal injection protocol is set to expire at the end of the month, NBC News reported. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson set the dates between April 17 and 27 and will require the state’s department...

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s administration has seized power in Atlantic City, taking control of the assets and major decision making power of the struggling seaside gambling resort with half a billion dollars in debt.

The Florida nurseries selected to cultivate and distribute the first medical marijuana in the state have successfully reached their first benchmark.

A Pennsylvania court is ordering the state government to restore the pension of former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, who was convicted of sexually abusing 10 boys.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a new budget into law Tuesday, but not before vetoing nearly $500 million stuffed into the spending plan by legislators.

Calling it a “slap in the face to Florida voters,” environmental groups filed a lawsuit Monday that contends state legislators “defied” a constitutional amendment approved last fall.

After a sprawling and messy budget fight that spawned lawsuits and finger-pointing, the fractured Republican-controlled Florida Legislature approved a nearly $79 billion budget and ended its special session Friday.

Florida legislators are expected to vote on new state budget and finally end their contentious special session.