ENID, Okla. (AP) — After a three-year vacancy, the city of Enid has a new assistant city manager. The role hasn't been filled since the spring 2016 departure of Joan Riley, who left to serve as city manager of Sapulpa, but now an internal hire has b...

ENID, Okla. (AP) — Retirement never held any appeal to Velda Rivenburg. The 86-year-old started working for Enid Public Schools in 1974, first as a volunteer, then as a crossing guard, then as a teacher's aide, and then as a paraprofessional in a s...

ENID, OKLA. (AP) — Retirement never held any appeal to Velda Rivenburg. The 86-year-old started working for Enid Public Schools in 1974, first as a volunteer, then as a crossing guard, then as a teacher's aide, and then as a paraprofessional in a s...

ENID, Okla. (AP) — Main Street Enid is organizing a poetry contest, with the winning words serving as inspiration for a downtown mural, plus a little cash and recognition for the poet who wrote them. "The arts are a major part of our downtown and E...

ENID, Okla. (AP) — A pair of Enid natives are preparing for a five-week, nine-country expedition through Europe to create an educational and interactive TV series tailor-made for Enid Public Schools students. "The Ancillary Explorers: Enid Escapes t...

ENID, Okla. (AP) — It's been nearly three years since Enid voters approved a $92.8 million school bond issue, and Enid Public Schools has been tirelessly putting that funding to work ever since, tackling dozens of projects big and small across the di...

ENID, Okla. (AP) — It's been nearly three years since Enid voters approved a $92.8 million school bond issue, and Enid Public Schools has been tirelessly putting that funding to work ever since, tackling dozens of projects big and small across the di...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Retired Army helicopter pilot and Northwest Oklahoman Bob Ford flew more than 1,000 missions in Vietnam, and now in partnership with Oklahoma History Center, he will help continue to tell the stories of service and sacrifice m...

ENID, Okla. (AP) — OAMJHSC is a long acronym for an old organization that hasn't always meant much to many in Northwest Oklahoma. Though for some Enid students, it has quickly come to mean more than was likely intended, and has pushed them to a...

ENID, Okla. (AP) — Infamous outlaw lovers Bonnie and Clyde died 84 years ago, ambushed on a rural Louisiana road by law enforcement, but in Oklahoma, their crimes still are under investigation. A 2017 series by Joe Cummings for the Enid News & E...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Democrats are riding an eight-year losing streak in statewide elections, and the pressure to break it has intensified a debate within the party over how to pull more votes from Republican-leaning rural areas to help win t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has joined 18 other states in adopting a law requiring motorists to use caution around garbage trucks by making driver carelessness a fineable offense. A ticket for what is now known as "unlawful passing of a waste c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has joined 18 other states in adopting a law requiring motorists to use caution around garbage trucks by making driver carelessness a fineable offense. A ticket for what is now known as "unlawful passing of a waste c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Ann Goodall's work with the Kansas Department of Children and Families is often traumatic, she said, and though she's been there for 16 years with no thought of quitting, many co-workers do. Child protection specialists such as G...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The family and supporters of a black Topeka man killed last year by police are speaking out against the city, the department and what they called unjustified violence by law enforcement toward black men as they discuss a f...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — People wrongfully convicted in Kansas will qualify to collect $65,000 for each year they were incarcerated under a bill the governor signed into law Tuesday. At a signing ceremony at the Mount Zion Church of God in Christ in Kansa...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Oklahoma legislators approved a measure Thursday to grant legal protections to faith-based adoption agencies that cite their religious beliefs for not placing children in LGBT homes and Republicans in Kansas were pushing a similar...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gay rights advocates from across the country arrived at the Kansas Capitol on Thursday to oppose an adoption bill that they see as a civil rights setback. The bill, called the Adoption Protection Act, would prevent the state from...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Koch Industries is pushing for a change to a Kansas rule forbidding corporate in-house lawyers unlicensed in the state from providing free legal services to needy outside clients. Koch chief legal counsel Jennifer Adams said t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas could soon join a growing number of states nationwide in providing free college admission testing to high school students. A provision in the new school finance bill passed Sunday would set aside $2.8 million for one ACT te...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have approved a pilot program to team up schools and community mental health centers to treat some of the state's most at-risk children. The measure would set aside $10 million to treat and track two p...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators worked late hours through the weekend to pass a new school finance bill, but the effort may not be enough to please the state Supreme Court. The bill, which passed 21-19 in the Senate early Sunday, calls for a...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Legislation designed to strengthen Kansas schools against gunmen passed in the House Wednesday, though some lawmakers argued the bill is more ploy than policy. The measure would set aside $5 million for schools to upgrade i...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas schools that refuse to allow teachers to carry guns could be held legally responsible in the event of a tragedy under a proposal drafted after last month's mass shooting at a Florida high school. Opponents of the m...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are considering legislation that would prevent the state from forcing faith-based adoption agencies to place children into homes that violate their religious beliefs. Critics predict the bill would lead to d...