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A massive ransomware computer virus was launched last week that has been described as one of the most serious in history. Its name is “WannaCry.” Ransomware is software that is sneaked onto your computer by bad guys. When triggered, you are shown a s...

NEW YORK (AP) — The 52-year-old founder of a Queens music school has been arrested on charges accusing him of having sex with underage girls. Oliver Sohngen was arrested Tuesday on sex trafficking of minors and other charges. He's the director of t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Senators on Tuesday backed away from a contentious floor debate on the state's concealed carry law, opting instead to send a bill back to committee that would allow several types of medical providers to ban guns in their f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One in every 5 middle and high school students has complained of being bullied at school and the number of reports of sexual assault on college campuses has more than tripled over the past decade, according to a federal study r...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal grand jury in San Antonio has issued multiple felony fraud charges against a Texas state senator from a border district. Sen. Carlos Uresti, a Democrat from San Antonio, was charged Tuesday with bribery, wire fraud, c...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Tribes representing tens of thousands of indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada will be signing a declaration against the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline. Leaders of the Blackfoot Confederacy in Canada and the Great Sioux N...

ELLSWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Former Kansas Agriculture Secretary Joshua Svaty says he's running for the Democratic nomination for governor in 2018. Svaty announced his candidacy Tuesday in his central Kansas hometown of Ellsworth. The 37-year-old Svaty w...

PHOENIX (AP) — The federal government says an Arizona farm has kept temporary Mexican workers in squalid conditions and paid some of them only a fraction of what they are owed. The Department of Labor filed a lawsuit against G Farms in El Mirage, l...

LONDON (AP) — Medical abortions done at home with online help and pills sent in the mail appear to be just as safe as those done at a clinic, according to a new study. The research tracked the outcomes of 1,000 women in Ireland and Northern I...

NEW YORK (AP) — For the first time, women in their early 30s are having more babies than younger moms in the United States. Health experts say the shift is due to more women waiting longer to have children and the ongoing drop in the teen birth r...

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas School of Nursing plans to open a campus in Salina this fall. The new venture is a partnership with Salina Regional Health Center. John Berggren, spokesman for the Salina health center, said in a news r...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has overwhelmingly passed legislation to help local law enforcement officers get the latest computer forensics training, a timely topic after last Friday's cyber-extortion attack that targeted hospitals, companies and g...

NEW YORK (AP) — As danger from a global cyberattack that hit some 150 nations continues to fade, analysts are starting to assess the damage. Hard-hit organizations such as the U.K.'s National Health Service appear to be bouncing back, and few p...

FULLERTON, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California nature center has a flower that smells deathly. Amorphophallus titanum, better known as the "corpse flower," emits a decaying flesh smell during its once-a-decade bloom. Staff members at the Fullerton A...

NEW YORK (AP) — It takes a certain something to be a good storyteller: enthusiasm, timing and a flair for the dramatic. Performers at a children's story hour at a New York City library have all that and then some — they're drag queens. About onc...

VIENNA (AP) — Some situations leave even the most seasoned diplomats unprepared. Take a British ambassador's encounter with a wild boar. Leigh Turner, Britain's ambassador to Austria, says he was left shaken and lightly injured after being chased r...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin is asking for a federal disaster declaration as a result of storms that struck the state in April. Fallin said Tuesday that her request is for 18 counties affected by storms that produced three t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit that alleged the Oklahoma Department of Human Services violated foster parents' right to bear arms. The lawsuit was filed after the department asked parents to sign a written agreement r...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Attorneys on Tuesday finished calling witnesses in the manslaughter case against a white Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man last year, clearing the way for closing arguments. Tulsa officer Betty Jo S...

WEWOKA, Oklahoma (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol said Tuesday that troopers shot and killed a 48-year-old man who aimed a loaded crossbow at officers after taking a relative hostage. Keith Chesser died at an Oklahoma City hospital where he was f...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A law recently signed by Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin will change how attorney fees in civil lawsuits are paid. The Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2pRo3mz ) reports that the new law requires the losing party to pay all legal fees in c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators are delaying discussions about public school funding and raising taxes to fix the state budget. House and Senate negotiators who had planned to convene Tuesday to discuss proposals for increasing income taxes n...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor called Tuesday for tougher state regulation of home schools in response to the 2015 killing of a 7-year-old boy whose remains were found in a family pig sty, and has some bipartisan support among l...

HOXIE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a deputy has used a stun gun on a man who advanced toward law enforcement with a machete after a northwest Kansas chase. The Hays Post (http://bit.ly/2rlqnCs ) reports that the pursuit started Monday afternoon w...