The new coverage kicks in next year and will eventually cost taxpayers about $1.3 billion per year.

Under new legislation, financially challenged community-based violence prevention services will eventually be able to receive state and federal Medicaid funds.

Three major U.S. drug distributors should be held responsible for sending a "tsunami" of prescription pain pills that caused a health crisis in one corner of West Virginia, an attorney for local governments said in closing arguments.

The lawsuit is based on claims by the Justice Department that Regeneron paid charity kickbacks to boost sales of the drug.