BOISE -- Idaho Gov. C.L. (Butch) Otter cautioned lawmakers Thursday that the state could be penalized hundreds of millions of dollars if it refuses to go along with federal health care reform mandates.The governor's comments came in a meeting with reporters four days before the start of the ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas -- The New Year's deadline given to followers to prove their faithfulness to imprisoned polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs came and went, and the dust has yet to settle.Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints had until Dec. 31 to show they ...

CONWAY, S.C.-- Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is keeping his focus on President Barack Obama as he works South Carolina, leaving the Republican intraparty attacks to his new public ally, Sen. John McCain.Romney continued his criticism of Obama's handling of the economy, even as ...

Margaret Anderson and her husband, Eric, were living their dream, finally working as U.S. park rangers in the same national park while raising a young family, their relatives said."They had been looking for that for a long time, to be in the same park," Margaret Anderson's father, the Rev. Paul ...

MOUNT RAINIER NATIONAL PARK, Wash.— Mount Rainier National Park remained closed Tuesday following the discovery of the body of the suspected gunman in the fatal shooting of a park ranger that has devastated the close-knit group of park workers.The park, which sees more than 1.5 million ...