Mead Gruver

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  • GettyImages-478977452.jpg-LOS ANGELES, CA – FEBRUARY 16: Gerry Spence attends OJ Simpson Trial Proceedings on February 16, 1995 at Los Angeles Court House in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images)Success

    Gerry Spence, legendary trial lawyer who fought to ‘free the people of this country from the slavery of its new corporate masters,’ dies at 96

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • Xi Jinping, Donald TrumpEnvironment

    China has 90% of the rare earth that the world needs. America’s just getting started on its second mine

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • The UMTRA ProjectNorth America

    Trump fast-tracks Utah uranium mine but industry comeback may wait until prices go up ‘dramatically’

    By Mead Gruver, Hannah Schoenbaum, and others
  • Julie Burkhart, founder and president of Wellspring Health Access, Wyoming’s only abortion clinic, is seen in a procedure room in the clinic Tuesday, April 8, 2025, in Casper, Wyo. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)Health

    Wyoming’s only abortion clinic resumes abortions after judge suspends 2 state laws

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • Dick CheneyPolitics

    Lifelong Republican and former Vice President Dick Cheney breaks with GOP to back Kamala Harris, daughter says

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • woman sitting on stepsPolitics

    Democratic voters are almost extinct in parts of rural America

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • Oregon Lottery External Communications Program Manager Melanie Mesaros speaks during a news conference outside a Plaid Pantry convenience store on April 9, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)Personal Finance

    $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot is so big lottery officials will take several weeks to verify the winning Oregon ticket

    By Claire Rush, Mead Gruver, and others
  • FILE – Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks at the PBS Utah Governor’s Monthly News Conference at the Eccles Broadcast Center in Salt Lake City, Oct. 19, 2023. Cox signed a bill into law Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024, that makes the state the latest to prohibit diversity training, hiring and inclusion programs at universities and in state government. (Laura Seitz/The Deseret News via AP, Pool, File)Politics

    Utah’s governor signs bill making it the latest state to ban DEI programs on campus and in government

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JUNE 26: Pierce Brosnan attends the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix’s “The Out-Laws” at Regal LA Live on June 26, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Robin L Marshall/WireImage)Environment

    Actor Pierce Brosnan is cited for stepping out of bounds at a sensitive thermal area in Yellowstone

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • Grand TetonsEnvironment

    Wyoming has been daring the Feds to buy priceless Grand Teton lands for a decade by threatening an auction. Now it’s asking $80 million

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • SALT LAKE CITY, UT – DECEMBER 17: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, historic Mormon Salt Lake Temple is shown here with Christmas light display on December 17, 2019 in Salt Lake City, Utah. A inside whistle blower has alleged the Mormon Church misled members on how a $100 billion investment fund was used. (Photo by George Frey/Getty Images)Finance

    Mormon church sued for allegedly lying to donors by investing $350,000 that was supposed to be used for charity

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • Taco Bell drive-thru open for business with lush green plants and clear sky in a residential neighborhood, Walnut Creek, California, March 27, 2023. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)Retail

    ‘Taco Tuesday’ has been liberated. A company claiming trademark rights backed down after Taco Bell intervened

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • Ricardo Acosta prepares food at a Taco John’s restaurant in Denver on Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Taco Bell is asking U.S. regulators to force Wyoming-based Taco John’s to abandon its longstanding claim to the “Taco Tuesday” trademark. (AP Photo/Thomas Peipert)Retail

    Taco Bell says ‘Taco Tuesday’ belongs to everyone as it asks U.S. regulators to force competitor to drop trademark claim

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • Residential homes in Casper, Wyoming, US, on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. The American middle class is facing the biggest hit to its wealth in a generation going into the midterm election, although it is also entering the vote richer than it has ever been thanks to a decade of cheap money and the wealth boom it fed. Photographer: Natalie Behring/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesPolitics

    Tearful Wyoming mayor acknowledges ‘poor taste’ in posting a fiery image on Facebook about an abortion clinic

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press
  • Wyoming housePolitics

    Hours after a judge blocked Wyoming’s abortion ban, police arrested a 22-year-old woman who set fire to the state’s only clinic

    By Mead Gruver and The Associated Press