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HELENA, Mont. (AP) — U.S. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's family is involved in a land deal in his Montana hometown with the head of an energy services giant that does business with the Interior Department, according to records and interviews T...

ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's national team endured an engine malfunction on the flight to Rostov-on-Don. That's not exactly the best preparation for a World Cup match against Uruguay. The Saudis landed in the southern Russian city late...

MOSCOW (AP) — A top manager of a state-controlled Russian energy company has been arrested on spying charges, a Moscow court said Tuesday. The Lefortovo District Court announced that Karina Tsurcan has been put in custody on charges of espionage, b...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has approved a $64 million rate cut in utility bills proposed by Oklahoma's largest electric utility. The commission voted 3-0 Tuesday to approve the cut that was agreed to following months o...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Ted Cruz has staged a dramatic about-face on the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policies, laying bare how politically damaging the issue of separating children from parents accused of crossing the border ille...

CONTRADA PETRARO, Sicily (AP) — Spring is ending and summer approaches. The grass is now long, finished growing. For us, it's time to scythe. This is a beautiful, and slightly sad, time of year for my wife and me, when the fields of grass and f...

ENID, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a Texas man was killed when the small airplane he was piloting crashed in northwestern Oklahoma. The agency says in a news release that 52-year-old Rodney Sherry of Olton, Texas, died in the c...

At Kiowa's June City Council meeting last week, they spent nearly two hours discussing the proposed $8.2 million water line replacement project that is vital to keep Kiowa's water supply viable. If you turn on a water faucet in Kiowa, Kansas, it...

Harvey Leon “Stubby” DeMint was born in Hazelton, Kansas, on August 6, 1927, to Harvey DeMint and Audrice Murphy DeMint and passed from this life on June 17, 2018, in Kiowa, Kansas. He lived in Hazelton and Kiowa area where he attended Sand Cre...

Clifford James Sanborn was born in Cherokee on July 1, 1939, to parents Clifford Loren Sanborn and Alice Brown Sanborn and passed from this life on June 17, 2018, near Cherokee. He was raised in the Cherokee area and had lived there his lifetime. Jam...

Jane Kathryn Smith (Barham), daughter of the late Douglas A. and Edna Josephine Barham (Gibson) was born in Norman, Oklahoma, on September 30, 1934. She passed away in Alva, Oklahoma, on April 20, 2018, at the age of 83 years, 6 months and 21 days....

Willyard Wayne Boggs spent his last days in Stillwater, Oklahoma, before his death on June 15, 2018. Willard was born on a farm near Hopeton, Oklahoma, on January 4, 1930, delivered by Dr. Ensor who called him Jupitor at that time. Then a nickname...

A new term is causing heartburn for beef, chicken and pork producers: "Clean meat." The term is being used by supporters of the emerging science of meat grown in labs without slaughtering cows and chickens. But many in the conventional meat industry...

GOTHIC, Colo. (AP) — David Inouye is an accidental climate scientist. More than 40 years ago, the University of Maryland biologist started studying when wildflowers, birds, bees and butterflies first appeared each spring on this mountain. These d...

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — Only two state races are on the ballot in Tuesday's Arkansas primary runoff, but some counties have local races. Fort Smith-area voters will elect a Republican nominee for a state Senate seat. The District 8 seat came open w...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Members of Arkansas' medical marijuana regulatory commission used different scoring guides when ranking cannabis growing license applications earlier this year, causing inconsistencies in panelists' grading. The Arkansas D...

BRIDGETON, Mo. (AP) — Last year Terry Franks received a phone call from her son that frightened her. "He couldn't tell me where he was. I told him, 'Take a picture,' and that's when he took a picture of the campus that he was on," Franks told K...

The sights and sounds are wrenching: A boy's cries of "Papa! Papa!" for the father he had been separated from. Youngsters placed in chain-link cages in an old Texas warehouse. Parents begging to know what will happen to their children. Child welfare...

HAZELWOOD, Mo. (AP) — A federal report says people who lived near or played in a contaminated St. Louis-area creek from the 1960s to the 1990s may have increased risk of developing cancer. The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry released...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration's new health insurance option offers lower premiums for small businesses and self-employed people, but the policies are likely to cover fewer benefits. Another caveat: if healthy people flock to the new plan...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Some American parents who for years have used cannabis to treat severe forms of epilepsy in their children are feeling more cautious than celebratory as U.S. regulators near a decision on whether to approve the first d...

LONDON (AP) — The British government announced Tuesday it would move to lift its ban on cannabis-based medicines, amid mounting criticism over the denial of treatment to severely epileptic children. But it rejected calls to legalize marijuana for rec...