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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — An overhaul of New Mexico's struggling public education system is at the forefront of legislative priorities as an expanded Democratic majority arrives at the state Capitol for a 60-day session on Tuesday. The inauguration of De...

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — The oil boom in southeastern New Mexico may be attracting business to communities, but some chains say they are struggling to keep employees because of better-paying positions in the oilfield. The Carlsbad Current-Argus r...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The flu is now widespread in Alabama — and it's expected to increase, federal health officials reported. Alabama is among 19 states reporting high levels of influenza in a recent report to the Centers for Disease Control, Al....

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A doctors' strike in Zimbabwe has crippled a health system that was already in intensive care from neglect. It mirrors the state of affairs in a country that was full of promise a year ago with the departure of longtime l...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The state of Missouri is declining to disclose the identities of those who have paid licensing fees to grow or distribute medical marijuana. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Missouri Department of Health and S...

SHERRILL, Iowa (AP) — As members of his hunting party looked on, Mike Laugesen crouched in a gully and started to dress the eight-point buck he just shot. He then used a hunting knife to cut a notch on a state deer tag to affix to the animal. He p...

DALLAS (AP) — Max Glauben was 17 and had already lost his mother, father and brother at the hands of the Nazis when U.S. troops rescued him while he was on a death march from one German concentration camp to another. The recollections of the D...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — President Donald Trump is not giving up on his demand for $5.7 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, saying a physical barrier is central to any strategy for addressing the security and humanitarian crisis a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Never mind the chants, the roars, the repetition. President Donald Trump acknowledged this past week he didn't mean it when he told crowds over and over that Mexico would pay — actually pay — for the wall. Mexico will pay "indi...

DURYEA, Pa. (AP) — It wasn't only the stone tool — possibly more than 8,000 years old — that excited Al Pesotine. It was also where volunteers with a local archaeology group found it — next to a fire pit at the group's dig site in Duryea. That co...

GREAT NECK, N.Y. (AP) — Administrators at a New York middle school are begging students to leave their winter hats made by Italian apparel company Moncler at home because the pricy tops keep getting lost. The New York Post reports that a...

TORONTO (AP) — Tired but smiling, an 18-year-old Saudi woman who said she feared death if deported back home arrived Saturday in Canada, which offered her asylum in a case that attracted global attention after she mounted a social media campaign. "...

CHICAGO (AP) — Katie Beers' joy quickly turned to deep concern when she learned 13-year-old Jayme Closs had been found alive in rural Wisconsin nearly three months after police say a man shot and killed her parents then abducted the girl from t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Progress made, said one. Not so, said the other. We'll meet again, said one. Waste of time, said the other. Such has been the life lately of Mike Pence, the loyal soldier dispatched by President Donald Trump to lead negotiations o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama stunned Republicans when he bypassed Congress and, relying on what he called his pen and his phone, used executive powers to enact his agenda, including protecting millions of young immigrants from d...

GORDON, Wis. (AP) — The man suspected of kidnapping a Wisconsin teenager and killing her parents with a shotgun nearly three months ago appears to have led an unremarkable existence until that fateful night, blending into the state's vast n...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Assailing President Donald Trump for "a crisis of leadership," former Obama Cabinet member Julian Castro joined the 2020 presidential race Saturday as the rush of Democrats making early moves to challenge the incumbent a...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The key accuser in the sex abuse case against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has met with New York City prosecutors, evidence that the scandal that has convulsed the papacy is now part of the broader U.S. law enforcement i...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Fallout from the federal government shutdown is hurting Native Americans as dwindling funds hamper access to health care and other services. The pain is especially deep in tribal communities with high rates of poverty and u...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the partial government shutdown slipped into the record books Saturday as the longest ever, members of Congress were out of town, no negotiations were scheduled and President Donald Trump tweeted into the void. He did not tip his...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Orbs of purple, black and white swirl together in one of Oklahoma City artist Gayle L. Curry's favorite paintings in her new exhibit "Unknown Origins." "This is my mom's leukemia. When she was diagnosed by the doctor we're seeing...

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...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma is set to usher in a new era in state politics with the inauguration of Republican Kevin Stitt as governor. The 46-year-old political newcomer and other statewide elected officials will be sworn into office Monday f... Full story

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A city-sponsored survey has found that only half of Tulsa residents consider themselves thriving, but many believe things are looking up. The Tulsa World reports the city worked with polling service Gallup to gauge residents' o...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma prison authorities say a 59-year-old man serving life in prison for first-degree murder has been killed in his cell at the state's maximum security prison. Officials say Anthony Palma was found unresponsive by a c...