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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Big questions about taxes and spending will shape the Kansas Legislature's work after its annual session opens Jan. 9. But the biggest question might be how much GOP moderates work with conservatives and how often they seek d...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The day has barely started, but Mary Stewart is already worried about one homeless student and others who arrive at her Kansas City, Kansas, high school in below-freezing temperatures with no winter coats. The principal n...

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Science fiction is walking into reality for Carla Belue of Red Bay, Alabama. Belue, who has relied on a wheelchair for 24 years, has been taking steps with help of the ReWalk exoskeleton. She is training to use the wearable r...

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — University of Virginia researchers are one step closer to understanding the immune system-brain connection that they discovered last year. Immune cells normally found in the gut, lungs and skin also reside in the m...

FRANKLIN COUNTY, Mo. (AP) — To find one of the St. Louis region's best-performing school districts, drive for about 10 miles through Franklin County on a two-lane country road past tree-lined acres of weathered barns, grazing cattle and a tiny c...

DEL RIO, Texas (AP) — A fossil found in limestone along a remote South Texas riverbed could be that of a dolphin-like reptile that swam in oceans 90 million years ago, according to paleontologists. The discovery was made two years ago by petroleum g...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The amount of severance taxes generated by Idaho's oil and gas industry is getting close to paying what it costs the state to regulate that industry. Idaho Department of Lands Director Tom Schultz estimates that 2017 severance t...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's Oil Ministry has published list of 29 international companies qualified to bid for oil and gas projects following the lifting of sanctions under a landmark nuclear accord. The list published on the ministry's website M...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Heart attacks and broken hips cause much suffering and worry as people grow older. This year, Medicare wants to start changing how it pays for treatment of these life-threatening conditions, to promote quality and contain costs. Ben...

To get rid of the cancer cells or to let them be? That is the question men must grapple with when diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. While the risk it presents is minimal, the side effects of radical treatments designed to get rid of these...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — SpaceX says it plans to resume flights as early as next week after finding the cause of an explosion that destroyed a rocket and satellite on a Florida launch pad in September. The Los Angeles Times reported Monday (...

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Police in Florida say a dog named Scarface attacked a family who tried to put a sweater on it. Tampa police say the pit bull mix bit a 52-year-old woman who was trying to dress it Friday and her husband was attacked while trying t...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The city's annual Mummers Parade quieted critics who raised concerns about racially or culturally insensitive displays in previous years, with marchers putting on a family friendly New Year's Day show that still entertained specta...