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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The president of Utah State University is responding to accusations that the institution acted irresponsibly after a threat agai...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Five employees who had their names added to a child abuse registry as a form of discipline by Connecticut’s child welfare agenc...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman accused of abandoning her newborn baby in a trash can was released from jail on Monday, and told reporters as she l...

ATLANTA (AP) — The government announced Tuesday that everyone traveling to the United States from Ebola-afflicted African nations will have to be scre...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming has become the latest state to allow same-sex unions, bringing the wave of gay rights to a state where the 1998 beating ...

GARY, Ind. (AP) — Investigators in two states were reviewing unsolved murders and missing person reports after the arrest of an Indiana man who confes...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A second defendant has pleaded guilty in a case alleging that a Northern California slaughterhouse at the center of a massive rec...

DETROIT (AP) — A potential crisis over defective air bags widened Monday as the U.S. government issued an urgent plea to more than 4.7 million people ...

GARY, Ind. (AP) — Seven women’s bodies were found in northwestern Indiana over the weekend after a convicted sex offender’s confession to one killing ...

WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — A surfer holding his 8-year-old son says he punched and smacked a shark with his board to stop an attack off Maui. Kaleo Robers...

BOSTON (AP) — At least 1,000 people will be summoned and asked to fill out questionnaires for the jury in the trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect...

GRETNA, La. (AP) — A 42-year-old man has pleaded not guilty in the death and dismemberment of a stripper in New Orleans’ French Quarter. A Jefferson P...

STATE COLLEGE — Change in disturbance regimes — rather than a change in climate — is largely responsible for altering the composition of Eastern fores...

NEW YORK (AP) — Some 34,500 people are now listed as too mentally unstable to have guns in New York state under a less than 2-year-old law that is one...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama delayed acting on immigration and an attorney general nomination this fall to dodge the politics of the midte...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — SUNY Fredonia has formally opened a new $60 million science facility focusing on chemistry, biology, environmental science and oth...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Revised guidance for health care workers treating Ebola patients will include using protective gear “with no skin showing,” a top fe...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Revised guidance for health care workers treating Ebola patients will include using protective gear “with no skin showing,” a top fe...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Keene State College students quickly cleaned up from a chaotic weekend Sunday after violent parties near the city’s annual pumpki...

PAW PAW, Mich. (AP) — One is a building with bars. The other is a building with a bar. A very drunk woman apparently had trouble telling them apart an...