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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Four Texans have pleaded guilty in the theft of dinosaur bones from a desert site near a quarry in southern Utah's Wayne County during a 2015 educational trip. Authorities have said the defendants slipped away from a geology t...

BIG SPRING, Texas (AP) — A 32-year-old West Texas man has been charged with murder for the death of his mother three months ago. Police in Big Spring say the Oct. 22 death of 52-year-old Gloria Martinez at a home initially was reported to them as a...

HOUSTON (AP) — A state public safety review cites potential danger from radical Islamic terror groups and Mexican drug cartels to justify the threat level in Texas as "elevated." The 2017 Department of Public Safety Threat Overview report says i...

WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) — Rob Kennedy Jr. isn't ashamed to admit he nearly succumbed to his heroin addiction many times. "Nine, ten times — dead — brought back," the Kingston man recalled recently. Sometimes it took an ice bath to make him snap out o...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — UPMC celebrates its 2,000th lung transplant with one patient still well 28 years later January 17, 2017 12:00 AM By David Templeton / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Knowing that fateful day someday would arrive, Paul McGuinness sat with h...

LEBANON, Pa. (AP) — William Kautz grew up in the Chesapeake Bay's backyard. He remembers standing in water up to his hips that was so clear he could see his feet. A few decades later, he couldn't even see his shins. When the Baltimore County r...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — On one of the last nights before he died, Max Briles treated himself to part of a cucumber. He figured it had 20 calories, which would keep his total below 1,000 for the day, less than half of what health officials say an adult m...

DENVER (AP) — The number of people who died in Colorado's jails more than doubled in four years, following a national trend of a rising death toll among inmates in city and county jails across the country. Jail deaths in Colorado grew from 11 inmates...

LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Rosie Hickman's gloved hands deftly threaded the ends of a black plastic strap through a thin metal buckle. Through, over, and back again. She threw the completed piece into a box, pausing just long enough to chat with a v...

BOSTON (AP) — Two Massachusetts lawmakers are hoping to wean the state off fossil fuels completely. A bill filed by Democratic state Reps. Sean Garballey, of Arlington, and Marjorie Decker, of Cambridge, would commit Massachusetts to obtaining 100 p...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — For the first time in about six years, state regulators this week have invoked special conditions that require energy companies to reduce pollution from oil and gas fields in southwest Wyoming. The Wyoming Department of E...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The telescope that first spotted Pluto nearly a century ago is undergoing a restoration that will take about a year to complete. About $155,000 in grants and donations will fund the work on Lowell Observatory's Pluto D...

COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) — It's time to close the gender gap. One of the largest gaps is in one of the most high-demand and well-paid careers: computer science. Girls Who Code is a club dedicated to evening out the playing field and now it is coming to C...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — New recycling bins in St. Paul containing tracking chips are being used to monitor recycling. The electronic chips allow recycling equipment to scan and identify the cart by passing a detector nearby, Minnesota Public Radio N...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A trucker has lost his marbles in the Indianapolis area. State police tell TV station WXIN that a truck carrying 38,000 pounds of marbles lost its trailer Saturday on southbound Interstate 465, near Pendleton Pike. The marbles w...

ADA, Okla. – For the first time in 13 games the East Central University men's basketball team did not come out as the winning team, falling to Northwestern Oklahoma State 71-83 in Great American Conference action at the Kerr Activities Center S...

ADA, Okla. – Northwestern Oklahoma State traveled south Saturday to take on cross-state rival East Central and came away with a huge 69-60 victory, their first road win of the 2016-17 season. Northwestern started early and kept the pedal down and ass...

ADA – For the first time in 13 games the East Central University men's basketball team did not come out as the winning team, falling to Northwestern Oklahoma State 71-83 in Great American Conference action at the Kerr Activities Center. Photo G...

SHAWNEE – Travon Moore led a trio of Bison in double figure scoring with 19 points in an 83-73 loss to Southwestern Oklahoma State in the Noble Complex Saturday. Moore had four three-pointers and hit all three of his free throws for his 19 points. K...

JOPLIN, Mo.— Southern Nazarene's track & field team competed in its second meet of the indoor track & field season at the Missouri Southern State University Open. For the men, senior Colin Pasque earned a first place finish in the pole vault as he c...

SHAWNEE, Okla. – SWOSU Women's Basketball cut a 21-point halftime deficit to as few as one point in the final seconds of the game against Oklahoma Baptist on Saturday afternoon, but fell short to the Lady Bison after not getting a potential g...

JOPLIN, Mo. (Jan. 21, 2017) – Juniors Sawyer Pehkonen and Landon Huslig each recorded an event win for Oklahoma Christian in the Southern Open, which wrapped up Saturday at Missouri Southern's Mercy Indoor Track. Huslig, from Edmond, took top honors...

JOPLIN, Mo. (Jan. 21, 2017) – Oklahoma Christian's 4x400-meter relay team turned in a solid performance on Saturday night in the final event of the Southern Open, hosted by Missouri Southern at Mercy Indoor Track. The quartet of Lawanda Harvey, L...