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PRATT, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say four children ranging in age from 4 years to 4 months have died in a house fire in Pratt, Kansas. Pratt police Detective Jeff Ward says the fire was Thursday morning. The Pratt Daily Tribune reports the children w...

CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. (AP) — Bakers are responding to the dangerous "Tide Pod challenge" with sweet and savory irreverence. Wake N Bake Donuts in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, and Kansas-based Hurts Donut have both made pastries decorated to look l...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas House and Senate leaders are asking that the state's longtime top school finance official and his immediate staff be suspended while auditors determine if the Education Department has improperly allocated up to $405 m...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Incoming Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer begins his tenure needing to mend relations with fellow Republicans in the Legislature, whose clashes with his GOP predecessor intensified in recent months. The ill will stands in sharp contrast t...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Weather officials are issuing a red flag warning central and south-central Kansas, cautioning of extreme grassland fire danger. The Hutchinson News reports that the National Weather Service says the warning period is from n...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lottery officials say the state has had three $1 million lottery winners in January. Lottery spokeswoman Sally Lundsford said someone in northeast bought a $1 million winning ticket in Wednesday night's Powerball. On J...

DENVER (AP) — In a Denver co-working space between a brewpub and a shop serving the Hawaiian raw fish salad called poke, independent candidates and possible contenders for U.S. Senate and governorships recently plotted how to pry loose R...

JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police are asking the FBI to investigate the nearly 40-year-old disappearance of a 13-year-old girl from the bedroom of her Junction City home. The Daily Union in Junction City reports that Beverly Ward was reported m...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 3-year-old Wichita boy whose body was found encased in concrete will be buried this weekend. KWCH-TV reports that the funeral for Evan Brewer comes four months after his remains were found in the home where he lived with his m...

FORNEY, Texas (AP) — Authorities in suburban Dallas have arrested three high school soccer players on sexual assault charges stemming from hazing allegations that date back several years. Kaufman County sheriff's spokeswoman Jolie Stewart says two j...

BENTON, Ky. (AP) — The mother of a girl killed in a shooting at a rural Kentucky high school said she got a call from her daughter but couldn't hear the girl's voice as the violence erupted. Bailey Nicole Holt was one of two 15-year-old students at M...

ROLLA, Mo. (AP) — A student at the Missouri University of Science and Technology has been charged with threatening to open fire on the Rolla campus after an AK-47 style rifle and nearly 900 rounds of ammunition were found at his home. Alexander Beetl...

BENTON, Ky. (AP) — The 15-year-old accused in a school shooting that killed two students and left 18 others bleeding and broken appeared Thursday before a juvenile court judge who found probable cause to detain him on preliminary charges of murder a...

WOOSTER, Ohio (AP) — More than 250 Ohio college students have ended a 10-hour sit-in over issues related to diversity and equity on campus. Cleveland.com reports College of Wooster President Sarah Bolton said the students ended their sit-in W...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is doing away with a decades-old air emissions policy opposed by fossil fuel companies, a move that environmental groups say will result in more pollution. The Environmental Protection Agency issued n...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's chief prosecutor ordered the arrest of the former head of the state oil company Thursday, accusing him of bankrupting the downtrodden country's primary source of income. Officials also announced that Venezuela i...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Lawmakers have more money to work with as they craft a spending plan for the coming fiscal year that aims to boost spending on education, courts and law enforcement. Economists for the state on Thursday revised tax revenue e...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted two Canadians and an oil recycling company on criminal charges including conspiracy and endangerment in an explosion that injured three workers at an eastern Montana oil plant. Custom Carbon P...

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SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Government advisers dealt a blow Thursday to Philip Morris International's hopes to sell its heat-not-burn device in the United States as a less-harmful alternative to cigarettes. The penlike device heats Marlboro-branded s...

BOSTON (AP) — Seventeen public health schools in the U.S. and Canada pledged Thursday to refuse research money from a new anti-smoking group funded by the tobacco industry. The Foundation for a Smoke-Free World was created in September with nearly $1...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some children who were part of New Mexico's foster care system or were adopted out of it lost Medicaid coverage due to what state officials described as "several glitches." The New Mexico Children, Youth and Families D...

More than 150 women and girls came forward in a Michigan courtroom to confront Larry Nassar, the former gymnastics doctor who was sentenced Wednesday to 40 to 175 years in prison for molesting people under the guise of medical treatment. Nassar...

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