State police and the state highway department also are investigating.

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State police and the state highway department are also investigating.

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So too were the utilitarian offices of the State Highway and Transportation Department.

ECONOMIST: America��s highways

What California's highway department described as "hundreds of vehicles" got stuck on State Route 58 between Bakersfield and the community of Tehachapi on Tuesday night, California's highway department reported, and at least a few big rigs and some cars remained Wednesday morning, a highway patrol dispatcher said.

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Of course, the state government still must do business with private entities the highway department, for example , needs to buy work trucks.

FORBES: Constitutional Protection Against the Corporate State

Using information from Florida's Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles, the state identified more than 100, 000 names of non-eligible voters that could potentially be on the lists illegally.

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Over the past several years 66 state and local agencies have signed up, from the Missouri Highway Patrol to the police department of Framingham, Massachusetts.

ECONOMIST: Illegal immigration