Schools and colleges across the U.S. face a Friday deadline to end diversity programs or risk having their federal money pulled by the Trump administration, yet few are openly rushing to make changes.

A spike in demand for electricity from tech companies competing in the artificial intelligence race is upending forecasts for natural gas-fired power in the U.S., as utilities reconsider it as a major new power source.

Philadelphia’s public transit system is moving forward with plans to test-run bullet-resistant enclosures for drivers on city buses.

A Franklin County Common Pleas Court judge has ordered the state of Ohio to pursue remaining federal funds from the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program, a move that could provide back pay to eligible residents.

Mike DeWine has served as the 70th Governor of Ohio since 2019. Term limits welcome a governor's race come 2026, with some now eyeing Jim Tressel as a prospective candidate.

A major part of the bill looks to revise marijuana taxes, causing uncertainty for dispensary host communities.

Philadelphia's mayor says five people hurt on the ground from a Learjet crash remain hospitalized, three of them are in critical condition.

A judge in a northwest Ohio city has found a pastor guilty on criminal charges for failing to comply with the city’s fire code after he opened his church and let homeless people and others to stay inside overnight.

Efforts to ban students' cellphones at school is gaining rare bipartisan consensus in Republican and Democrat-led states.

Many colleges accused of tolerating antisemitism on their campuses have been settling with federal civil rights investigators in the weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who urged a tougher response to campus protests against the war in Gaza.

A Democratic state representative’s health problems could complicate the vote for speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

A man fatally shot last month as authorities attempted to serve him an indictment on federal gun charges has been identified as the killer of an 18-year-old Ohio woman whose beating death had gone unsolved for 43 years.

A Pennsylvania court says the secretary of state has the authority to direct counties not to allow “unauthorized third party access” to voting machines or risk having those machines decertified and unable to be deployed for elections.

The Associated Press has learned that the federal Bureau of Prisons is permanently closing its “rape club” women’s prison in California and will idle six facilities in a sweeping realignment after years of abuse, decay and mismanagement.

A prosecutor in Ohio is seeking to exonerate four men convicted three decades ago in the beating death of a woman.

Penn State has won a closely watched trademark fight over an online retailer’s use of its vintage logos and images.