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BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – Julia Benbrook of Woodward, Oklahoma, was recently initiated into the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Benbrook was initiated at Oklahoma State Un...

Happy Birthday To June 8: Rob Eden, Diane Headlee June 9: Melissa Smith, Tiffany Wilson, Stanley Irving, David Smith, Carlee Pierce, Lake Kamas, Brad Claussen June 10: Brandon Edwards June 11: Ron Culver, Teresa Folks, Walker Jones, Mikala Hodgson,...

Two of the Woods County commissioners will take delivery of four road graders within a week. The deal was approved last month, but the financing paperwork combined the two graders in Randy McMurphy's district and he wanted two separate contracts. So...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A communications professor at Wichita State University says she's resigning because a law allowing concealed weapons on campus is "in opposition to the values of higher education." The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2r1fjis ) r...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman pleaded guilty and was sent to prison Wednesday for threatening a man whose 6-year-old son was killed in the 2012 mass shooting at a Connecticut school, which she contended was a hoax. Senior U.S. D...

NEW YORK (AP) — Small business owners who install solar panels or help customers use clean energy don't seem fazed by President Donald Trump's plan to withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate accord, saying they expect demand for their services w...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — President Donald Trump says withdrawing from a global climate change agreement will boost the U.S. economy, but existing market forces have had far more of an effect on the fossil fuel industries than climate regulations. For at...

CINCINNATI (AP) — Dogged by allegations in Washington, President Donald Trump traveled to friendlier territory Wednesday and promised to create a "first-class" system of roads, bridges and waterways by using $200 billion in public funds to g...

LONG ISLAND, Kan. (AP) — A fire at a north-central Kansas hog farm has injured a worker and killed 9,000 animals. Phillips County sheriff's deputy Pat Hewitt says the fire started about 11:20 a.m. Tuesday at a barn for sows and piglets at Husky H...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican Gov. Eric Greitens said Wednesday he is calling Missouri lawmakers back to the Capitol to work on abortion policies, including looking at a St. Louis ordinance that bans discrimination based on abortions and p...

NEW YORK (AP) — A prominent leader of the abstinence-only sex education movement has been appointed to a senior position at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, joining several other social conservative activists in the leadership r...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — In 2007, when Las Crucen Othello Gamboa, now an eighth grader at Las Cruces Catholic School, was 5 years old, he woke up to find that he had no feeling in his right leg and couldn't move it. At first, his father, Gabe G...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission has finalized the process for accepting applications for medical marijuana growers and sellers. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://bit.ly/2r5BX4b ) reported the five-member c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will require abortion providers to give women more information about their doctors' histories and provide it on white paper in 12-point Times New Roman type. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill into law Wednesday f...

HOUSTON (AP) — It was time to fly the expensive drones. The Houston Chronicle reports the University of Houston students had spent nearly two weeks maneuvering, and crashing, the cheaper ones that frequently go awry and will not hover in one spot. T...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Increased violence and corruption in central Africa could be the result of the recent decision by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission not to enforce a rule requiring American companies to report their use of conflict m...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA chose 12 new astronauts Wednesday from its biggest pool of applicants ever, hand-picking seven men and five women who could one day fly aboard the nation's next generation of spacecraft. The astronaut class of 2017 i...

NEW YORK (AP) — How long has our species been around? New fossils from Morocco push the evidence back by about 100,000 years. The bones, about 300,000 years old, were unearthed thousands of miles from the previous record-holder, found in f...