NJ GOVERNOR ENDS GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT AS COUPLES WED
By GEOFF MULVIHILL and ANGELA DELLI SANTI Beth Asaro, left, and Joanne Schailey celebrate after exchanging vows to become the first same-sex couple married in Lambertville, N.J. history at 12:01…
State governments
KANSAS SUPREME COURT SANCTIONS FORMER AG KLINE
By JOHN MILBURN FILE – In this July 19, 2011 file photo, former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline stops to talk to reporters briefly before the start of an ethics…
HEALTH CARE LAW TURNS TO SOCIAL MEDIA IN ILLINOIS
By CARLA K. JOHNSON In this Oct. 15, 2013 photo, social media experts at the marketing agency FleishmanHillard work in a Chicago command center on the Get Covered Illinois marketing…
DEMOCRAT BOOKER WINS US SENATE ELECTION IN NJ
By KATIE ZEZIMA and GEOFF MULVIHILL Newark Mayor Cory Booker talks to supporters during an election night victory party after winning a special election for the U.S. Senate, Wednesday, Oct.…
SPECIAL PROSECUTOR TO LOOK AT MO. SEX ASSAULT CASE
By BILL DRAPER Melinda Coleman listens to a question during an interview in her home in Albany, Mo., Wednesday, Oct. 16, 2013. Coleman says justice was denied when charges were…
EASTERN INDIA BRACES FOR IMPACT OF MAJOR CYCLONE
In this Thursday Oct. 10, 2013 photo, fishing boats are pulled off to the shore following a cyclone alert on the Bay of Bengal coast at Puri, Odisha state, India.…
HO– USE HARD-LINERS STAND UNITED IN BUDGET SHOWDOWN
By DONNA CASSATA FILE – In this Oct. 29, 2012 file photo, then-Republican House candidate, now, Rep. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., speaks in Claremore, Okla. Hard-line House conservatives are demanding concessions…
DAVIS TAKES NATIONAL STAGE WITH GUBERNATORIAL BID
By CHRIS TOMLINSON File – In this July 25, 2013 file photo, Texas State Senator Wendy Davis speaks at a fundraiser, in Washington. Davis is expected to announce her bid…