Gov. Tim Walz is taking his 2024 State of the State address on the road to the southern Minnesota city of Owatonna. “Minnesota’s made a lot of progress in the last year, and I’m excited to talk about what’s next in our fight to make Minnesota the best place to live, work, and raise a family,” the Democratic governor said last week in a social media post previewing...

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia’s Republican state senators are making another attempt to impose a conservative stamp on the state’s public schools, passing a bill Tuesday that would ban transgender girls from playing high school sports with other girls, limit sex education and require a system for notifying parents of every item a child obtained in a school library. GEORGIA TEENS ALLEGEDLY GRAB GUN, KNOCK OUT DEPUTY AND ESCAPE...

A Mississippi House leader said Tuesday that he won’t move forward with a bill to allow a casino in the capital city of Jackson — a proposal that would have been a dramatic change in a decades-old a state law that limits casinos to areas along the Gulf Coast and the Mississippi River. But, even as House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Trey Lamar made the announcement that...