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Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown is considering new candidates for the role of people’s counsel — the state’s top advocate for ratepayers in regulatory proceedings concerning utility companies. The current People’s Counsel, David Lapp, who has served in the role since early 2021, says he wants to stay in the role, after his initial five-y...

LINCOLN — The Nebraska Department of Revenue has confirmed it is the entity responsible for administering state and local sales taxes under state law as a state senator alleges wrongdoing by Lincoln city officials. The state agency made the clarification Thursday in response to questions from the Nebraska Examiner. Local taxes are determined by ...

Seventeen months after his daughter’s murder, Steve Federico said Thursday his “passion now” is a federal law on criminal record keeping that could prevent similar tragedies. His daughter, Logan Federico, was killed May 3, 2025, in a downtown Columbia home while visiting friends at the University of South Carolina. Alexander Dickey, 31, is accus...

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly joined Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rob Sand in Des Moines Thursday, saying her tenure shows it is possible to be an effective Democratic governor while working with a GOP-controlled state Legislature. Joining Sand in person at the Iowa State Education Association headquarters, Kelly said when she was first elected ...

President Donald Trump is planning to fly to Alaska next week for a rally intended to boost the re-election campaigns of U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich III. According to the Trump 47 Committee, an operation of the Republican National Committee and Trump’s Save America PAC, Trump will speak at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Wasilla’s Curtis D....