January 12, 2017 'Leaves you numb': Store owner still fighting IRS after feds seized his $107G account North Carolina convenience store owner Lyndon McLellan is still fighting the IRS to get back $107,000 they seized.
January 12, 2017 First state to approve conjugal visits prepares to end program, citing costs Starting next month, prisoners in Mississippi will no longer be legally allowed to get busy behind bars.
January 12, 2017 'Columbo' daughter pushes for bill that protects the right to visit sick parents It's the quirky Christmases Catherine Falk remembers the most. "To us, he wasn't 'Columbo.' He was dad," she told FoxNews.com of her famous father Peter Falk.
January 12, 2017 States ration birth, marriage, death certificates after paper company suddenly closes Someone call Dunder Mifflin: Several states are reporting a paper crisis, after an Ohio company that produces highly specialized paper for vital records closed without warning.
January 12, 2017 California guv scrambles to save bullet train, floats cap-and-trade scheme California Gov. Jerry Brown is scrambling to keep a pricey high-speed train project from being derailed by raiding millions of dollars from the state's cap-and-trade program -- in what critics are calling a "desperate" ploy to save the beleaguered plan.
January 12, 2017 Unions on edge as Arizona lawmakers weigh major expansion of education overhaul Lawmakers in Arizona are poised to expand a controversial education program that allows parents to use state funds to pay for alternative schooling for their children -- a move teacher groups and unions say would decimate the public education system.
January 12, 2017 States push to regulate, tax booming e-cigarette industry While waiting for the debate on electronic cigarettes to heat up on Capitol Hill, several state and local governments are pressing ahead with their own agendas for taxing and regulating the popular battery-powered smoking alternatives.
January 12, 2017 Dems push for minimum wage increase for tipped workers -- but will it backfire? Hourly workers who rely on tips for a living are turning to the states in a bid to boost their base pay, as the minimum wage debate stalls in Congress -- though business groups warn the move could backfire.
January 12, 2017 Policing for Profit? Lawmakers, advocates raise alarm at growing gov’t power to seize property Massachusetts motel owner Russell Caswell wasn’t expecting to find himself at the center of a national controversy when federal authorities came knocking on his door. They said they wanted his business –and the land it was on- and said they could take it legally if they wanted to through a practice known as civil forfeiture. Caswell said no.
January 12, 2017 States target meth labs with name-and-shame strategy As states struggle to clamp down on a growing meth epidemic, they're turning to a tactic commonly used to target sex offenders: name and shame.
