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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announces that Michigan will build an electrified road to charge wireless vehicles, becoming the first U.S. state to do so.
2021-09-21

Florida and Alabama will no longer report COVID-19 data as the two U.S. states will move on to their next phase of the pandemic.
2021-06-8

A total of 16 U.S. states have closed all of their schools as of this date.
2020-03-14

A woman in Tempe, Arizona, dies after being hit by a self-driving car operated by Uber, in what appears to be the first death of a pedestrian struck by an autonomous vehicle on public roads. In response to the fatal accident, Uber suspends self-driving car tests in all U.S. cities as well as Toronto.
2018-03-19

California becomes the first U.S. state to forbid "conversion therapy" for minors, effective January 1st, 2013.
2012-10-1

A mass shooting at an International House of Pancakes restaurant in Carson City, Nevada, leaves four dead, including the shooter, and six wounded.
2011-09-6

A wildfire in the U.S. state of Oklahoma forces evacuations in Logan County and the closure of State Highway 105.
2011-01-30

The Supreme Court in the U.S. state of Illinois rules that Rahm Emanuel, former Chief of Staff to President of the United States Barack Obama, is eligible to run for Mayor of Chicago.
2011-01-27

Hewlett-Packard (HP), the world's largest computer maker based in the U.S. state of California, pays US$55 million amid allegations it defrauded the United States government.
2010-08-31

The U.S. state of Hawaii enacts a law permitting officials to ignore multiple attempts by the same person to view the birth certificate of President of the United States Barack Obama.
2010-05-13