By JOHN RABY Associated Press CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia woman died Wednesday more than a week after an accident at a southern West Virginia coal mine, Gov. Jim Justice said. Ashley Cogar, 33, of Erbacon, was injured at the Wyco Surface Mine, near the border of Raleigh ...

By MAKIYA SEMINERA Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Two of North Carolina's public universities will be allowed to eliminate more than a dozen degree programs ranging from ancient Mediterranean studies to physics after the university system's governing board voted Wednesday to ...

By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Firefighters in the West are scrambling as wildfires threaten communities in Oregon, California and Washington, with at least one Oregon fire so large that it is creating its own weather. Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon was ...

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — Lawyers for the man accused of fatally stabbing four University of Idaho students are urging a judge to move his murder trial away from the county, arguing the intense media coverage and public interest in the case make it ...

By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press The Philadelphia school district has failed to protect Jewish students from "a virulent wave of antisemitism" that swept through classrooms after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, according to a federal complaint filed Tuesday. The district, among the ...

By JOHN O'CONNOR and COREY WILLIAMS Associated Press SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — The former sheriff's deputy charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Sonya Massey, a 36-year-old Black woman killed inside her Illinois home, had been employed by a half-dozen police agencies since 2020, ...