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DALLAS (AP) — Kyu Cho had a generous spirit and joyous belly laugh that delighted his friends. His wife, Cindy Cho, was quieter, described by those who knew her as sweet and kind. Together, the parents of two young sons complemented each other p...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma could become the first college softball program since UCLA more than 30 years ago to win three consecutive national championships. UCLA won titles in 1988, 1989 and 1990. Since then, teams have won back-to-back seven t...

The NCAA baseball tournament opens Friday with play in 16 double-elimination regionals. Regional winners advance to best-of-three super regionals next week, and the final eight go to the College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska, beginning June 16....

YATES, N.Y. (AP) — A New York fertility doctor who was accused of using his own sperm to impregnate several patients died over the weekend when the hand-built airplane he was in fell apart mid-flight and crashed, authorities said. Dr. Morris W...

LONDON (AP) — The big cheese of extreme U.K. sports events is back. Hundreds of spectators gathered Monday to watch dozens of reckless racers chase a 7-pound (3 kilogram) wheel of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper's Hill, near G... Full story

BRYAN, Texas (AP) — Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes entered a Texas prison Tuesday where she could spend the next 11 years for overseeing a blood-testing hoax that became a parable about greed and hubris in Silicon Valley. Holmes, 39, could be s...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Officers found Tony Peralta sitting on a curb not far from a convenience store where he borrowed a cell phone to call 911 and confess to the 2008 killing of his former landlord. Sweating and taking puffs from his c...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Five residents of a six-story apartment building that partially collapsed in eastern Iowa remained unaccounted for Tuesday, and authorities feared at least two of them might be stuck inside rubble that was too dangerous to s...

Hundreds of people flocked to a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019. Some say it's a sign of holiness in Catholicism, while others say the lack of decomposition may not be as rare as...

A drone attack that targeted Moscow on Tuesday exposed glaring breaches in its air defenses and underlined the capital's vulnerability as more Russian soil comes under fire amid expectations of a Ukrainian counteroffensive. The attack, which lightly...

Food workers who showed up while sick or contagious were linked to about 40% of restaurant food poisoning outbreaks with a known cause between 2017 and 2019, federal health officials said Tuesday. Norovirus and salmonella, germs that can cause...

Scientists and tech industry leaders, including high-level executives at Microsoft and Google, issued a new warning Tuesday about the perils that artificial intelligence poses to humankind. "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a...

According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be...

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 1:19 a.m. – Caller advised of a male sitting near her house in his car and had been doing burnouts in the 200 block of 5th Street. Deputy was advised and all was okay. 8:56 a.m. – Medic needed for a female having seizures. No...

The final week of the 2023 regular session was extremely busy. Once the education agreement was reached, that cleared the way for negotiators to complete work on the rest of the budget. I will talk a bit more about budget highlights in the coming...

The Woods County Commissioners had a lot of paperwork to sign, but the agenda was short for the regular meeting Tuesday morning. The paperwork included county payroll, warrants, claims, and blanket purchase orders which were all approved. Chairman...

At the May 23 regular meeting of the Freedom Board of Education, B.J. Baker was appointed to Seat 3. He read his oath of office, as required by new board members. His term will last until the February 2028 election. Members present were Kyle Rhodes,...

Mike Roach of the Alfalfa County commissioners could not attend Monday's meeting, but Nate Ross and Garret Johnson were there to handle an agenda full of resolutions. They were joined by County Clerk Laneta Schwerdtfeger (mistakenly referred to as...

Top scholars at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas, and at Southwestern College Professional Studies have been announced with the release of the Dean's Honor Roll for the spring 2023 semester. Full-time students who earned grade point averages...