By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS JACKSON, Miss. (AP) _ The head of the Mississippi Department of Corrections says the state could save $2 million over the …

ST. LOUIS (AP) _ Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis are hoping that a unique approach to addressing gun violence will help put a …

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) _ The Pitkin County coroner’s office is planning to use virtual autopsies in cases where a traditional procedure is either not needed …

By CHRISTINE ARMARIO LOS ANGELES — The gap in bachelor-degree attainment between the nation’s richest and poorest students by age 24 has doubled during the last …

By JULIE CARR SMYTH COLUMBUS, Ohio — Ohio back-to-school shoppers would get a three-day reprieve from Ohio’s sales tax under a bill headed to Gov. John …

By GEOFF MULVIHILL HADDONFIELD, N.J. — A judge has been clear that Caitlyn Ricci’s parents must pay her tuition to Temple University, even though the divorced …