Voters on the proposal, which is not the first for the Golden State to break it up into smaller states, will have a chance to respond to the ballot in November.   An initiative that would divide California into three separate states qualified Tuesday to appear on the ballot in November’s general election. Californians will […]

CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) – A new study from 24/7 Wall Street ranks Ohio as one of the worst states to live in. The site looked at 10-year population growth, October unemployment rate, poverty rate and life expectancy at birth when ranking which states are best to live in. While their top states included Massachusetts, Connecticut, New […]

The stoner holiday – April 20 – is here and more and more states are taking the steps to make marijuana legal. In past years, its…

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Do you live in one of the states without racial profiling laws? A new report from the NAACP finds out that 20 states don’t have laws…

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Want to find out how your state measures up? Listen to the audio below to hear “The D.L. Hughley Show” break down the top ten…

With the upcoming presidential election, more than ever people are focused on the government’s unemployment statistics. Last Friday, the Labor Department announced a slight increase in the unemployment rate — from 8.2 percent to 8.3 percent. Unemployment, however, does not tell the whole story. Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 24/7 Wall Street […]

Ashley Smith, from Chesapeake, won the pageant in Las Vegas July 17, becoming only the second African American to win the Miss United States title in the competition’s 11 years of existence. “I was actually planning to take a year off from pageants to focus on school and work,” said Smith, 23. “But something inside […]