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MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — Two state prison inmates and a former prison guard have been sentenced for their roles in what prosecutors say was a large methamphetamine distribution ring operated out of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. A...

McLOUD, Okla. (AP) — The Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma and the city of Oklahoma City have been selected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to receive grants to assess and clean up contaminated areas for redevelopment. The EPA says the tribe w...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the murder convictions and life-without-parole sentences of three convicted killers. The court on Thursday rejected separate appeals by 65-year-old David Lee Baird, 59-year-old R...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators approved a bill Thursday to keep concealed guns out of public hospitals and mental health centers, and handed the National Rifle Association and its state allies their first big political defeat in years. The H...

NEW YORK (AP) — Instead of walking up the aisle to pick up his diploma, a New York City nursing student held his own graduation ceremony with fellow riders after his subway car stalled. Jerich Alcantara tells CBS New York (http://cbsloc.al/2rcyRPf )...

SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist received the National Christian College Athletics Association's Presidential Award – the association's All-Sports award – Thursday. OBU won with 145 points to claim its second NCCAA Presidential Award in as many years. The...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — An attorney for a northwestern Arkansas college said a motion to bar his firm from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the school is harassment. Attorneys for former Ecclesia College teacher and board member Jim P...

HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. rose by eight this week to 916. A year ago, just 408 rigs were active. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes said Friday that 733 rigs sought oil and 182 e...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Northwest Florida counties are going to finally get a share of money given to the state for damages related to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Gov. Rick Scott on Friday signed a bill (HB 7007) t...

DENVER (AP) — Oil and gas operators in Colorado appear to be complying with state-ordered inspections of thousands of pipelines after a natural gas explosion blamed on a severed line killed two people inside a home, regulators said Friday. All but a...

HOUSTON (AP) — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has embarked on an environmental study to monitor the effects of oil and gas drilling on the springs that feed a famous pool at Balmorhea State Park in West Texas. Brent Leisure, the state p...

CANTON, Ohio (AP) — Ohio's environmental watchdog agency has raised the proposed penalty against a company building a high-pressure natural gas pipeline across the state after tests found diesel fuel in samples taken from the 2 million gallons of d...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Officials in North Dakota's coal industry say they won't back off from carbon capture initiatives despite President Donald Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord. But Lignite Energy Council P...

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — On the day President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of an international accord designed to curb greenhouse gases, the co-founder of a science research organization in Kansas said that environmental activism needs to evolve. Wes...

A roundup of some of the most popular, but completely untrue, headlines of the week. None of these stories are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. AP checked these out; here are the real facts: NOT REAL: Trump's Top Scientist...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Mayors along the Mississippi River say President Donald Trump's decision to pull out of a worldwide climate agreement could severely damage U.S. agricultural exports. The Mississippi River Cities and Towns Initiative says in a n...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A cattle farmer in western North Carolina has been sentenced for dumping cow poop in a river. Local media report that 65-year-old Michael Crowell was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Asheville on Thursday to six months of h...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The parents of a severely disabled child can sue doctors who failed to inform them about fetal abnormalities that, if revealed, would have prompted the mother to have an abortion, the Iowa Supreme Court ruled Friday. The 6-1 r...

Except when a big star doesn't show up or gets injured, it's rare that NFL minicamps make many headlines. That could change this month. NFL teams will be trying out a new helmet, the VICIS Zero 1 , that the league and the players' union hope will be...

(THE CONVERSATION) Facebook recently announced that it is getting more involved in the personal crowdfunding business. Individual users will have the option of placing a “donate” button on their posts to raise funds for six categories of causes tha...

MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — Virgin Galactic successfully conducted another unpowered test flight of its space tourism spacecraft over the Southern California desert, the company said. The glide flight Thursday incorporated a special ballast tank filled w...

TOKYO (AP) — With the dust now settling after "WannaCry," the biggest ransomware attack in history, cybersecurity experts are taking a deep dive into how it was carried out, what can be done to protect computers from future breaches and, trickiest o...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Billionaire Paul G. Allen's Stratolaunch, a massive aircraft designed to launch rockets into space from high altitude, has been rolled out of its hangar for the first time in preparation for testing. Here are things to know a...

PARIS (AP) — Cyberspace faces an approaching risk of "permanent war" between states and criminal or extremist organizations because of increasingly destructive hacking attacks, the head of the French government's cybersecurity agency warned T...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — When most people think of Alaska, they picture its thick forests, hulking grizzly bears and soaring, snow-covered peaks. What they might not imagine is rockets whisking defense and other payloads into space. But America's n...