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December 20, 2015

Medical marijuana touches off big debate in Sunshine State

In November, Florida voters will decide whether the Sunshine State will be the next laboratory of democracy to legalize medical marijuana.

December 20, 2015

Virginia GOP calls Dems’ Senate takeover ‘outrageous power grab’

In what Republicans called "a Virginia version of Harry Reid's nuclear option," Democrats in the state legislature invoked new rules giving them control of all state Senate committees.

December 20, 2015

California lawmakers advance bill banning imitation firearms

BB guns and pellet guns would have to look clearly different from those that fire bullets to be sold in California under a bill approved Tuesday by the state Senate in response to several recent shooting tragedies involving children.

December 20, 2015

Arizona lawmaker seeks $30M 'virtual fence' near US-Mexico border

An Arizona legislator wants the state to spend $30 million for a high-tech surveillance network near the U.S. border with Mexico.

December 20, 2015

Western residents face threat of water rationing as feds reduce water flow

For years, experts have been warning people in the American West they will have to make do with less water in the future. That dryer future already may have arrived.

December 20, 2015

Florida high court OKs medical marijuana for ballot

A proposed constitutional amendment to allow the medical use of marijuana will go before Florida voters in November after the state Supreme Court narrowly approved the ballot language Monday.

December 20, 2015

Bribery trial opens for ex-New Orleans mayor

Jury selection began Monday in the trial of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who faces charges that he accepted bribes and free trips among other things from contractors in exchange for helping them secure millions of dollars in city work. Nagin, a Democrat who was mayor when Hurricane Katrina stuck in 2005, served two terms before leaving office in 2010. He was living in a Dallas suburb when a federal grand jury indicted him a year ago. Nagin had little to say as he entered the federal courthouse with a noticeable limp.

December 20, 2015

Pro-life activists march in San Francisco

Many thousands of anti-abortion protesters from across California marched through downtown San Francisco on Saturday, calling for restrictions on a medical procedure that was legalized more than 40 years ago.

December 20, 2015

California high court asked to take up high-speed rail

Gov. Jerry Brown's administration on Friday petitioned the California Supreme Court to overturn two lower-court rulings that have stalled progress on the state's high-speed rail project, one of the nation's most expensive public works projects.

December 20, 2015

Former Virginia governor, wife plead not guilty to federal corruption charges

Former Virginia Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen pleaded not guilty Friday to federal corruption charges for allegedly accepting gifts, vacations and loans.