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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service says it supports one of the last U.S. ski resorts to prohibit snowboarding in a court battle over a ban ...

Unemployment rates for the region stayed close to level for the month of February, showing a better economic picture than one year earlier. According ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The fix for a faulty ignition switch linked to 13 traffic deaths would have cost just 57 cents, members of Congress said Tuesday as ...

ATLANTA (AP) — Archbishop Wilton Gregory seems to have gotten the pope's message about modest living. Days after Pope Francis permanently removed a Ge...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A blizzard, jammed phone lines and unreliable websites failed to stop throngs of procrastinating Americans from trying to si...

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan unveiled an updated Republican budget plan Tuesday that would slash $5.1 trillion in feder...

PHOENIX (AP) — Planned Parenthood Arizona filed an appeal Tuesday after a federal judge refused to temporarily block the nation's most stringent restr...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — An aviation industry group is creating a task force to make recommendations this year for continuously tracking commerci...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After facing a rocky start and chorus of naysayers who declared his health care law a failure, President Barack Obama on Tuesday cel...

A new report on child well-being, measured by state and race, has turned an unflattering spotlight on some places not used to being at the bottom of s...

DARRINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Crews searching through the muck and devastation wrought by Washington's deadly mudslide are finding more human remains on th...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Boeing 777 that crashed at San Francisco International Airport had inadequate warning systems to alert its crew about problems ...

DETROIT (AP) — As the deaths are tallied from General Motors' delayed recall of compact cars, one thing is becoming clear: Of those who were killed, t...

NEW YORK (AP) — In every region of America, white and Asian children are far better positioned for success than black, Latino and American Indian chil...

WASHINGTON (AP) — New research is boosting hopes that weight-loss surgery can put some patients' diabetes into remission for years and perhaps in some...

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a bid to improve the government's accounting for missing U.S. war dead, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Monday he is establish...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Police at Georgia's Columbus State University fatally shot a man over the weekend after officers responded to a report of someone...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Hundreds of protesters angry over recent Albuquerque police shootings clashed with riot officers for more than 10 hours, call...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration's health care website stumbled early Monday , falling out of service for nearly four hours on deadline day ...

HICAGO (AP) — It's hard to think of Wrigley Field as anything but a place of heartbreak — a place where fans wait, season after season, for an elusive...