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VERMILLION, Kan. (AP) — Kansas fire officials are investigating a house explosion and fire in northeastern Kansas were a body was later discovered. The explosion was reported just after 7 a.m. Friday at a house in Vermillion, television station W...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — An 18-year-old man died in a shooting in Kansas City, Kansas, police there said. The shooting was reported around 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Victory Hills neighborhood, the Kansas City Star reported. Arriving officers said t...

RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Marvel's Hero Project is out to prove that superheroes live among us. One of those superheroes is activist, public speaker and high school student Tokata Iron Eyes of Pine Ridge. Tokata, 16, is featured in a recent s...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Tamara Hew-Butler, Wayne State University (THE CONVERSATION) Every 365.25 days, when the Earth completes a full orbit around the Sun,...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Leaders in conservative Oklahoma say they are looking for more legislative progress for LGBTQ people this year after notable strides in 2019. Tulsa and Oklahoma City updated their personnel policies to ban discrimination a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas cropland that turned into a crime scene of serial slayings in the 1870s is up for auction. The 162-acre tract where the Bender family killed at least 11 people will be sold off to the highest bidder by an Indiana-based a...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. (AP) — A prosecutor in Oklahoma has been arrested, accused of domestic abuse. Robert McClatchie, an Oklahoma County assistant district attorney, was booked into Oklahoma County jail at about 4 a.m. Saturday on complaints of d...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks around the world fell this week on worries that a new type of virus in China may ultimately hit profits for companies from Wuhan to Washington. The World Health Organization has held off on calling the outbreak a global h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abroad, at home and in Twitter's ether, President Donald Trump unleashed a fusillade of statements over the past week as the Senate impeachment trial unfolded and the Davos economic forum played out in Switzerland. On i...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Spacewalking astronauts plugged a leak in a cosmic ray detector outside the International Space Station on Saturday, completing a series of complex repairs to give the instrument new life. The $2 billion Alpha Magnetic S...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — By no stretch of the imagination had Cody Clark solved the Rubik's cube. The puzzle in the magician's left hand was a scattered mess of colors. But Clark is autistic, and his mind works differently. Moments before, he'd p...

More than 1,200 cases of a new viral respiratory illness have been confirmed since an outbreak began last month in the Chinese city of Wuhan. Scientists have identified the illness as a new kind of coronavirus. Coronaviruses are a large family of...

NEW YORK (AP) — A woman was hospitalized Saturday when a chair fell off a 12th-story balcony in New York City and hit her on the head, police said. The incident happened at about 2:30 p.m. in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan. The wooden p...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado fertility doctor who is being sued for allegedly using his own sperm to impregnate several women says the women don't have a legal complaint because they requested artificial insemination from an anonymous dono...

Technology issues and upgrades have kept Share Medical Center staff very busy for more than a month. CEO Kandice Allen described it as “lots of plates spinning here lately” at the Alva Hospital Authority (AHA) meeting Jan. 21. She said IT Director Ma...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – After dropping Thursday's game in Searcy to Harding, the Lady Rangers traveled to Russellville to take on Arkansas Tech. The Golden Suns were able to take control early on and never let up. The Red and Black fell Saturday afterno...

SEARCY, Ark. – The Lady Rangers were ready to go up against the Lady Bisons of Harding University. Northwestern looked to get their first ever victory not only in Searcy but also against Harding in general. Harding was able to take control right b...

Kansas (16-3, 5-1) vs. Oklahoma State (10-9, 0-6) Gallagher-Iba Arena, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Monday, 9 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Kansas looks to extend Oklahoma State's conference losing streak to eight games. Oklahoma State's last Big 12 win came agains...

Dallas Mavericks (28-17, sixth in the Western Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (28-19, seventh in the Western Conference) Oklahoma City; Monday, 8 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Oklahoma City will attempt to keep its five-game win streak going when the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant, the 18-time NBA All-Star who won five championships and became one of the greatest basketball players of his generation during a 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers, died in a helicopter crash Sunday. He was 4...

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston's mayor and others say they will work to provide assistance to residents whose homes were damaged after a massive explosion at a warehouse that killed two workers and injured 20 others. Mayor Sylvester Turner on Saturday w...

U.S. hospitals fed up with shortages of critical medicines — mostly generic drugs that aren't profitable — have banded together. Seven hospital systems and three philanthropies formed nonprofit CivicaRx in 2018 to produce what they need. The gro...

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation has been asked to review a high-speed police chase that ended with a suspect fatally shooting himself. The Tulsa World reports the chase began after the suspect allegedly made d...