SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Utah House speaker and U.S. Senate candidate Brad Wilson is the new CEO of the Utah Olympic organizing committee.
The group, which is hosting the Winter Games in 2034, announced its leadership team Friday.
Fraser Bullock will serve as executive chair and ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's Republican governor on Friday signed a collective bargaining ban that experts are calling one of the most restrictive labor laws in the country, despite overwhelming opposition from union members.
Beginning July 1, unions serving Utah teachers, firefighters, ...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia was awash in green on Valentine's Day to celebrate its Super Bowl champions.
Swooning fans screamed and cheered Friday as MVP quarterback Jalen Hurts and Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie took turns hoisting the Vince Lombardi Trophy at the start of the team's ...
Here's a look at the timeline of events in a series of killings that culminated in a Jan. 20 highways shootout that killed a Border Patrol officer in Vermont. It is based on Associated Press interviews and a review of police reports, court records and online postings:
2016
Jack LaSota, who ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine extended the state's unofficial death penalty moratorium once again Thursday as he postponed three more executions that had been scheduled for this year.
The governor's announcement again cited the state's inability to secure the drugs ...
Republicans are trying again to exclude people who are in the U.S. illegally from the numbers used to portion out congressional seats among the states. But a new study says their inclusion in the past four censuses has had little impact on presidential elections or control of Congress.
If ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — After surviving teen homelessness and domestic violence in West Virginia, 23-year-old Ireland Daugherty was finally feeling stable: She had her own apartment, a job and was studying for a four-year degree.
Ashley Cain, 36, was celebrating four years of sobriety and ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A bill banning diversity, equity and inclusion programs at Ohio's public colleges and universities and stripping certain collective bargaining and tenure protections from faculty cleared the Republican-led Ohio Senate on Wednesday, over the objections of more than 1,000 ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jim Justice said he transformed West Virginia's financial policy from cow dung into gold during his time as governor.
But one man's gold is another man's ... something else. Newly inaugurated Gov. Patrick Morrisey has taken a closer look under the lid of ...
A wintry mess was bearing down on mid-Atlantic states Tuesday with forecasts of significant snow and ice accumulations prompting warnings of potential power outages.
The National Weather Service said travel would become treacherous Tuesday through early Wednesday in much of Virginia and West ...
College Football Hall of Fame coach Jim Tressel, who won the 2002 national title at Ohio State University, has been nominated to be the state's next lieutenant governor, joining a long list of sports figures who've moved into politics.
Tressel, nicknamed "The Senator" during his coaching days ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Transgender college students in Utah will be prohibited from living in dorms consistent with their gender identity, under a bill that cleared its final legislative hurdle Monday.
The state House, which had already passed the measure, again approved it with small tweaks ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration is recommending the closure of Rockview state prison and the Quehanna boot camp, both in central Pennsylvania, amid longer-term national trends of shrinking prison populations.
The administration said on Monday it expects to save more ...
DENVER (AP) — The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee is looking into how a former police officer landed an investigator's job at the U.S. Center for SafeSport despite sex-crime allegations that littered his past, while also asking if the center knew he had been accused of newer crimes ...
By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Putting carbon dioxide from power plants and industrial facilities underground where it won't contribute to global warming could see less federal support and enthusiasm under President Donald Trump. But experts and industry advocates ...
By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican skepticism in the Senate of President Donald Trump'sCabinet nominees has been worn down, putting his unconventional choices for some of the most powerful positions in the federal government on the verge of confirmation.
Floor ...
By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — As a student, Donald Trump played high school football. As a business baron, he owned a team in an upstart rival to the NFL and then sued the established league. As president, he denigrated pros who took a knee during ...
By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY AP Education Writer
As Republicans in Congress look for ways to slash spending, some legislators are floating new taxes on college scholarships, an end to student loan repayment plans and a big hike in taxes on university endowments.
The ideas affecting higher ...
By LLAZAR SEMINI, FARNOUSH AMIRI and MUNIR AHMED Associated Press
TIRANA, Albania (AP) — They helped the U.S. military order airstrikes against Taliban and Islamic State fighters and worked as drivers and translators during America's longest war. They were set to start new lives in the ...
By AUDREY McAVOY Associated Press
HONOLULU (AP) — Hawaii's regular sunshine, short rain showers and clean air come together to create some of the planet's best conditions for viewing rainbows. They're such a frequent sight that a University of Hawaii professor calls the state the ...