COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The governor of Ohio will send law enforcement and millions of dollars in healthcare resources to the city of Springfield as it faces a surge in temporary Haitian migrants that has landed it in the national spotlight. Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said Tuesday he ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice will call the Legislature back to the Capitol this month to consider several proposals, including one that would cut taxes and another that would provide child care support, he announced Monday. The Republican governor said for a ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. (AP) — A former Mafia hitman already serving life in prison was sentenced to 25 years Friday in the 2018 fatal prison bludgeoning of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. Prosecutors said Fotios "Freddy" Geas used a lock attached to a belt to repeatedly hit the ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans a four-day campaign trip through major swing states after the Democrat's debate Tuesday with Republican Donald Trump. Her "New Way Forward" tour will include a new television spot, rallies, canvassing events and programs designed to target ...

By BRUCE SCHREINER and LEAH WILLINGHAM Associated Press LONDON, Ky. (AP) — Authorities searched a rugged, hilly area of southeastern Kentucky on Sunday for a man suspected in the weekend shooting of nine vehicles and wounding of five people on a busy interstate. Joseph A. Couch, 32, was ...

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — The mother of a student in class with the boy accused of killing four people in a Georgia high school shooting says information that school officials were warned that the boy was having a crisis shows the shooting could have been prevented. "The ...

By KEVIN McGILL Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Grief, pain, hope and faith permeated church services Sunday as an Atlanta area community's efforts to cope with the nation's latest deadly school shooting included prayer, hymns and a first-person account of the tragedy from a teacher who ...

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kendrick Lamar will pop out on the NFL's biggest stage next year: The Grammy winner will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show in New Orleans. The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Sunday that Lamar ...

By MARC LEVY Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — When Donald Trump and Kamala Harris meet onstage Tuesday night in Philadelphia, they'll both know there's little debate that Pennsylvania is critical to their chances of winning the presidency. The most populous presidential swing ...

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — One of the biggest challenges for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the final stretch of the campaign is introducing herself to voters before her Republican rival, Donald Trump, has a chance to define her. Until her ...

By RUSS BYNUM and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press The mother of the 14-year-old who has been charged with murder over the fatal shooting of four people at his Georgia high school called the school before the killings, warning staff of an "extreme emergency" involving her son, a relative ...

By JOSH BOAK Associated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris plans a four-day campaign trip through major swing states after the Democrat's debate Tuesday with Republican Donald Trump. Her "New Way Forward" tour will include a new television spot, rallies, canvassing ...

DENVER (AP) — A Colorado State Patrol trooper is recovering after he was shot in the arm during a shootout near Denver that left the gunman dead, authorities said. Cpl. Tye Simcox was in his parked pickup in the center median of U.S. 36 on Saturday afternoon when a passing driver fired at ...

WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania county official has pleaded guilty to felony animal cruelty in an agreement with prosecutors that spares her jail time but requires her to resign her post at the end of the month. Washington County Controller April Sloane, 43, entered the plea ...

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press LONDON, Ky. (AP) — A manhunt was underway early Sunday as police searched for a gunman in a rural area of southeastern Kentucky near Interstate 75, according to authorities who said seven people were hurt in the shooting and a vehicle accident that ...

By JEFF McMURRAY Associated Press The secret to avoiding red lights during rush hour in Utah's largest city might be as simple as following a bus. Transportation officials have spent the past few years refining a system in which radio transmitters inside commuter buses talk directly to the ...

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Three sisters from Ohio who inherited a dime kept in a bank vault for more than 40 years knew it had some value. But they had no idea just how much until just a few years ago. The extraordinarily rare coin, struck by the U.S. Mint in San ...

By JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Historical document appraiser and collector Seth Kaller spreads a broad sheet of paper across a desk. It's in good enough condition that he can handle it, carefully, with clean, bare hands. There are just a few creases and tiny ...

By MORIAH BALINGIT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz touted Vice President Kamala Harris' record of defending LGBTQ+ rights on Saturday night, pledging to a supportive crowd that she will advance their cause if elected president. Walz, the Democratic vice ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — A former top official in U.S. nuclear weapons research at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos national laboratories has died from injuries after an automobile crash in New Mexico, authorities said. He was 69. Charles McMillan, an experimental physicist, spent nearly 23 ...