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The Alva Post Office will have a come-and-go reception for City Carrier Leslie Nutter Friday, May 26, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the lobby. Nutter has worked for the post office for 30 years. Everyone is invited to come by and help celebrate her...

As South Barber High School Principal Brent Shaffer welcomed the gymnasium full of family and friends to commencement Sunday, May 14, in Kiowa, he said the Class of 2017 is special to him. That's because these students were eighth graders when he...

Funeral services for Howard Roberts, 89, are pending with Marshall Funeral Home....

SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist's national championship vaulted the Lady Bison from 10th in the NCCAA Coaches' Poll to the No. 1 slot in the final poll, which was released Tuesday. Oklahoma Baptist went 4-0 in the NCCAA World Series, including an 8-1 w...

(THE CONVERSATION) Caroline was having a hard time getting her daughter to go to school. The night before, her daughter saw the news about a terrorist bombing that had occurred that day where several children and adults were killed and schools were...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Education advocates say President Donald Trump's budget contradicts his campaign pledge to make college more affordable with its proposed elimination of subsidized student loans and cuts in other programs that help students pay t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is proposing "the most ambitious expansion" of school choice in American history, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Monday while giving few details on how the program would work. "We must offer t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An impasse among Oklahoma lawmakers over how to fix the state's worst budget problem in decades has sent the legislature spiraling into chaos and focused blame on the usually sacrosanct oil and natural gas industry for not p...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Members of the Nevada Assembly are giving bipartisan support to one arm of the Democratic majority's push to make solar energy more accessible. Assembly Bill 405 would require Nevada companies to make rooftop solar c...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy is abandoning a test meant to determine whether nuclear waste can be buried far underground because of changes in budget priorities, the agency said Tuesday. A spokeswoman said in a statement t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has selected Kristine Svinicki, chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, to lead the panel for another five years. Trump had previously named her to lead the five-member panel through June. S...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Six Democratic state attorneys general including New York's are asking federal regulators to place new restrictions on crude oil trains that pass through their states. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman (...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the case of a 7-year-old Kansas who was murdered and fed to pigs (all times local): 8:45 p.m. Kansas' child welfare agency says it last had contact in February 2012 with a boy who was murdered and fed to pigs in 2...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas received reports that a boy who ultimately was murdered and fed to pigs was being physically abused several years before his death, according to documents released Tuesday that also show a social worker was in contact w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump fulfilled a major campaign promise Tuesday, proposing a $4.1 trillion budget plan that would upend Washington in a big way. But he drew rebukes, even from some Republican allies, for the plan's jarring, p...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers are moving closer to requiring the collection of more-detailed reports about complications from abortions performed statewide The state Senate late Tuesday approved 22-9 a bill mandating that medical clinics r...

GENEVA (AP) — Africa, where viruses such as HIV, Ebola and Zika emerged, has its first chief of the U.N. health agency. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a former Ethiopian minister of health, was elected Tuesday as the next director-general of the W...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A New Jersey Republican congressman who helped push the House health care bill to passage quit his post Tuesday as a chairman of the chamber's moderate Tuesday Group, criticizing colleagues for having "different objectives and a d...

WACO, Texas (AP) — "Eat your vegetables," many parents tell their children. Now, doctors are taking a similar approach with their patients. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports that through a partnership between the Family Health Center and World Hunger R...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google already monitors online shopping — and now it's keeping an eye on physical stores to try to sell more digital advertising. The internet company said Tuesday that a new tool will track how much money people spend in mer...

DENVER (AP) — Two Republican members of Congress from Colorado are asking the Trump administration not to change the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, one of more than two dozen monuments under review for possible modification. Sen. Cory G...

JUNEUA, Alaska (AP) — A human leg with a fishing boot still on was found in a debris pile that collected in the waters near Alaska's capital city. Juneau Police Lt. David Campbell says the leg — from the knee down — was found by state game worke...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have drafted a new proposal for fixing the state budget that includes both income tax increases and hikes in other taxes. House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday night on details of a plan for raising $...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have said "cheers" to allowing cities to designate districts where people can move among bars, restaurants and entertainment venues with libations in hand. The House approved a bill Tuesday on a 97-22 vote. T...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has pleaded no contest to putting his infant stepdaughter in an apartment complex trash compactor. The Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/2qe0TqD ) reports that Marquis Young initially was charged with a...