PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Protesters marching in Philadelphia against the bombardment of Gaza chanted about genocide Sunday outside an Israeli-style restaurant, leading Gov. Josh Shapiro to call the demonstration "antisemitic." In Philadelphia's Center City and University City neighborhoods, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Banning marijuana growing at home, increasing the substance's tax rate and altering how those taxes get distributed are among vast changes Ohio Senate Republicans proposed Monday to a marijuana legalization measure approved by voters last month. The changes emerged ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's former top utility regulator pleaded not guilty to charges announced Monday in connection with a $60 million bribery scheme related to a legislative bailout for two Ohio nuclear power plants that has already resulted in a 20-year prison sentence for a former state ...

HAILEY, Idaho (AP) — Paul Rytting listened as a woman, voice quavering, told him her story. When she was a child, her father, a former bishop in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had routinely slipped into bed with her while he was aroused, she said. It was March 2017 and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — George Santos is gone from the House, but his name is certain to pop up in key congressional races across New York next year. Democrats are targeting five seats held by first-term Republicans and looking to associate them with their former colleague in the state's ...

A 19-year-old man became trapped and died as a result of a landslide at a state park in southern Minnesota. The Blue Earth County Sheriff's Office received a call Saturday afternoon of a landslide trapping someone under collapsed earth at the falls area of Minneopa State Park, near ...

Beyoncé ruled the box office this weekend. Her concert picture, " Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé," opened in first place with $21 million in North American ticket sales, according to estimates from AMC Theatres Sunday. The post-Thanksgiving, early December box office is notoriously slow, ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police were searching on Friday for an inmate who escaped from a Philadelphia jail by walking away from a work detail, the fourth breakout from a city lockup this year. Gino Hagenkotter, 34, who was serving time on theft and burglary charges, was working in the orchard on ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Flu is picking up steam while RSV lung infections that can hit kids and older people hard may be peaking, U.S. health officials said Friday. COVID-19, though, continues to cause the most hospitalizations and deaths among respiratory illnesses — about 15,000 hospitalizations ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Five former correctional officers in West Virginia were indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday in connection with the 2022 death of an incarcerated man who was beaten while handcuffed and restrained in an interview room and later a jail cell. All five officers, as ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia coalition that helps support a network of anti-abortion pregnancy centers in the state is receiving $1 million in taxpayer dollars to distribute to organizations committed to encouraging people not to end their pregnancies. The West Virginia Pregnancy ...

Coach Neal Brown will get another chance at West Virginia after finishing with his best regular-season record despite being mired in the program's worst stretch in four decades. West Virginia athletic director Wren Baker said Friday that Brown will return in 2024, putting to rest any ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania is trying anew to help voters using mail-in ballots in the battleground state avoid mistakes that might get their ballot thrown out in 2024's presidential election and beyond. In a new directive Wednesday, Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration ...

HILLSBORO, Ohio (AP) — An explosion at an auto repair shop in Ohio that killed three people and sent a fourth person to a hospital sparked a massive fire that burned for hours and spewed thick, black smoke into the air. The Tuesday afternoon blast at Jimbo's Auto Repair in Hillsboro was felt ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A GOP-sponsored bill that would ban nearly all diversity and inclusion training requirements at Ohio's public colleges and universities and bar public universities from taking stances on "controversial" topics doesn't have the votes to move forward in the Legislature, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose consulted with three prominent anti-abortion groups while drafting the contested ballot language used to describe Issue 1, an abortion-rights measure overwhelmingly approved by voters earlier this month, cleveland.com ...

CLEVELAND (7-4) at LOS ANGELES RAMS (5-6) Sunday, 4:25 p.m. EST, FOX BETTING LINE: Rams by 3 1/2 according to FanDuel Sportsbook. AGAINST THE SPREAD: Browns 6-4-1; Rams 5-4-2. SERIES RECORD: Rams lead 13-11. LAST MEETING: Rams beat Browns 20-13 on Sept. 22, 2019, in Cleveland. LAST WEEK: ...

A Virginia man was arrested Wednesday on charges that he stormed the U.S. Capitol while wearing a Captain America backpack and stole items from senators' desks on the Senate floor during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, court records show. Ryan Joseph Orlando took a pen from the desk of Sen. Susan ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An entire county school system in coal-producing West Virginia is going solar, representing what a developer and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin's office touted on Wednesday as the biggest-ever single demonstration of sun-powered renewable electricity in Appalachian public ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A Wyoming coal mine that supplies fuel to a power plant that will be converted to burn gas plans to lay off 19 workers next month, the latest of thousands of jobs lost in the beleaguered U.S. coal industry in recent years. Fifteen workers at the Black Butte Mine were ...