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The executive director of the New Hampshire Retirement System has resigned her position less than five months after taking the job, the New Hampshire Union Leader has learned.

Two professors at the University of the District of Columbia are suing the city to gain access to the D.C. Jail's emergency evacuation plan.

Alcohol was a factor in the death of two men who died aboard a double-decker bus heading for a Washington Nationals game on July 11, according to toxicology reports.

Hoosiers who send birthday cards by mail or pay their electric bills by check will have a chance to practice some state pride if they buy the latest 42-cent stamps issued Tuesday by the U.S. Postal Service.

In July the U.S. Congress debated the future of the DC Opportunity Scholarship program, the federal initiative helping 1,900 low-income students attend private schools in the nation's capital.

District of Columbia officials hope drivers still using their cell phones learn to disconnect or go handsfree.

Eight months after Congress lifted a decade-long ban on using funds from the District of Columbia to support syringe-exchange programs in Washington, DC, local tax dollars are beginning to reach such ...

Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said that Mississippi is part of a multi-state settlement agreement with HealthMarkets, Incorporated and its affiliated insurance companies.

Delaware is renowned as the home of the nation's largest companies and for its Chancery Court, whose judges specialize in deciding complex corporate cases.

More data breaches have been reported so far this year than in all of 2007, according to a report released this week by a nonprofit group that works to prevent fraud.

The U.S. Postal Service will host a special ceremony next Tuesday to officially dedicate the new Guam Flags of our Nation stamp.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 DOJ-cocaine-cartel WASHINGTON , /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Juan Carlos Ramirez-Abadia , a/k/a "Chupeta," one of the leaders of Colombia's most powerful cartel, known as the "Norte Valle ...

District of Columbia schools are putting the finishing touches on building improvements in preparation for the first day of school on Monday, Aug.

She has shuttered 23 schools, fired more than 30 principals and given notice to hundreds of teachers and administrative workers.

District of Columbia officials are counting on needle exchange programs to help tackle an AIDS crisis in the city.

The way to a person's heart is through his stomach, the adage goes. But researchers now think the way to a healthy heart might be through your gums and teeth.

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Adult obesity rates increased in a mind-boggling 37 states during the past year, up from 31 states during the previous year, according to the report "F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, ...

Claibourne D. Smith, chairman of Delaware State University's board of trustees, has been named the college's interim president.

While the FBI and federal prosecutors are confident the case against the sole suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks would have been proven beyond a reasonable doubt, Bruce Ivins' attorney says the government is ...