Utah appears to be the first state ready to put a full ban on fluoride in public water systems under a bill that doesn't allow cities or communities to decide whether to add the cavity-preventing mineral. A bill sponsor and an organization opposed to fluoridating water said Utah's proposal ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A funeral service will be held later this week for a Pennsylvania police officer shot and killed while responding to a hospital intensive care unit where authorities said a gunman had shot three hospital employees and taken staff members hostage last weekend. West York ...

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday blocked immigration agents from conducting enforcement operations in houses of worship for Quakers and a handful of other religious groups. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chang found that the Trump administration policy could violate their ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Monday that President Donald Trump 's administration has freed up billions in federal aid that the Democrat had accused it of withholding illegally and unconstitutionally. Shapiro said in a news conference that more than $2 billion ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fabric and crafts retailer Joann Inc., which has been a destination for generations of quilters, knitters and lovers of crafts projects for more than 80 years, is going out of business and shuttering all its stores. The announcement comes after the Hudson, Ohio-based retailer ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Vivek Ramaswamy, the Cincinnati-born biotech entrepreneur who departed the Department of Government Efficiency initiative on President Donald Trump's first day, launched his bid for Ohio governor Monday with promises to institute work requirements for Medicaid and merit ...

NEW CONCORD, Ohio (AP) — A sheriff's office investigating a report of a possible shooting that prompted a lockdown at Ohio's Muskingum University determined Monday that no shooting occurred. The Muskingum County Sheriff's Office posted on Facebook that many law enforcement officials were ...

YORK, Pa. (AP) — A man armed with a pistol and carrying zip ties entered a Pennsylvania hospital's intensive care unit Saturday and took staff members hostage before he was killed by police in a shootout that also left an officer dead, authorities said. Three workers at UPMC Memorial ...

For some famously progressive colleges in Ohio, a new state law designed to keep transgender women from using women's restrooms at schools is bringing a moment of soul-searching for students, alumni and administrators. It's one of many such laws adopted around the country, with the stated ...

Coastal Carolina University President Michael Benson has been extended an offer to become West Virginia University's next president, where he would be tasked with reversing decade-long declining enrollment at the state's flagship university. Coastal Carolina made the announcement in a message ...

By LAURAN NEERGAARD and MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday again blocked the Trump administration's drastic cuts in medical research funding that many scientists say will endanger patients and delay new lifesaving studies. The new National Institutes ...

By DEVI SHASTRI AP Health Writer The measles outbreak in rural West Texas has grown to 90 cases across seven counties, the state health department posted online Friday, and 16 people are hospitalized. In neighboring eastern New Mexico, the measles case count is up to nine, though state ...

By The Associated Press Shortages of Ozempic and Wegovy that have been in place for more than two years have been resolved, as supplies of the popular diabetes and obesity treatments continue to improve, federal regulators said Friday. The drugmaker Novo Nordisk can meet current and future ...

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Minimum-wage workers in Michigan started getting a pay raise Friday as Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Republican legislators agreed to a compromise that scales back sick leave and wages for tipped workers in an effort to ...

By MARTHA BELLISLE and CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — The termination letters that ended the careers of thousands of U.S. Forest Service employees mean fewer people and less resources will be available to help prevent and fight wildfires, raising the specter of even more ...

By MARK THIESSEN and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Warren Hill spent more than two decades working at the Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, which spans 4 million acres of coastline, forests, lakes and glaciers in Alaska. Last summer, he was promoted to ...

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Robert Seaman, the New Hampshire artist who brightened dark days by creating intricate and imaginative "daily doodles" during the COVID-19 pandemic and then kept at it for nearly five years, has died. He was 92. Seaman died on ...

By SALLY HO and JESSE BEDAYN Associated Press/Report for America The Trump administration's proposal to cut half of federal workers at the nation's housing agency is targeting employees who support disaster recovery, rental subsidies, discrimination investigations and first-time ...

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — People left waiting for months on their unemployment claims during the coronavirus pandemic in Alabama must be able to sue the state over the delay, the U.S. Supreme Court said Friday. The 5-4 ruling comes after the Alabama ...

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writers WASHINGTON (AP) — An idea first proposed on social media has bubbled up to the White House and received President Donald Trump's enthusiastic endorsement: Take some of the savings from billionaire Elon Musk's drive to cut ...