HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro on Wednesday backed off his insistence on money for a new private-school funding program after it became a sticking point in a budget stalemate between Pennsylvania's politically divided Legislature.
Shapiro's shift in position came as ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike DeWine cleared Ohio's $86 billion state budget, signing into law $3 billion in tax cuts and universal school vouchers among hundreds of others provisions for the next two fiscal years.
The governor OK'd the massive budget document early Tuesday, but ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man who confessed to raping and impregnating a 9-year-old Ohio girl has been sentenced to life in prison in a case that became a national flashpoint on abortion rights because the girl had to travel out of state to end the pregnancy.
Gerson Fuentes, 28, was sentenced ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Groups hoping to enshrine abortion rights in Ohio's constitution delivered nearly double the number of signatures needed to place an amendment on the statewide ballot this fall, aiming to signal sweeping widespread support for an issue that still faces the threat of ...
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The state of Nevada has reached a $285 million settlement with Walgreens regarding the pharmacy chain's role in the opioid epidemic, the state's top lawyer announced Wednesday.
The last in a series of multiyear settlements with pharmaceutical companies, retailers and others, ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department says a bystander's cellphone footage showing a deputy violently tackling a woman while she filmed her husband being handcuffed and then pepper-spraying her in the face is " disturbing," and community groups on Wednesday called for ...