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WAYNOKA, Okla. (AP) — The National Transportation Safety Board announced Saturday that it is investigating a house fire that killed four people, including two firefighters, in the northwestern part of the state. The agency launched the i...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The death toll in Oklahoma due to the illness caused by the coronavirus topped 3,500 on Saturday, according to the Oklahoma State Department of Health. The department reported 33 additional deaths due to COVID-19 to bring the t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt is hopeful for an improved relationship with his fellow Republicans in the Legislature when the 2021 session begins Monday after an acrimonious split last year over a breakdown in budget negotiations. T...

OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) — A white woman has resigned as the head cheer coach at a private Kansas university after a Black cheerleader said she was kicked off the squad over an argument about her nearly 3-foot-long (0.91 meters) braids. The Kansas City Star...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man charged with first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of his cousin told police that the killing happened after his cousin acknowledged molesting two people, court records say. The affidavit released Friday in t...

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County Court deputies shot a man earlier this month while serving an eviction notice after he allegedly pointed a weapon at them. The specifics of what led up to the shooting are unclear, but what the incident does s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has parted ways with his lead impeachment lawyers just over a week before his Senate trial is set to begin, two people familiar with the situation said Saturday. Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, b...

NEW YORK (AP) — Two men identified as members of the Proud Boys have been indicted on federal conspiracy and other charges in the Capitol riot as prosecutors raise the stakes in some of the slew of cases stemming from the Jan. 6 insurrection. D...

Polluting factories go uninspected by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Leadership positions sit vacant at the U.S. Geological Survey's climate science centers. And U.S. Department of Agriculture research into environmental issues important t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden has invited to the White House a group of 10 Republican senators who have proposed spending about one-third of what he is seeking in coronavirus aid. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Sunday that B...

BERLIN (AP) — Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has agreed to supply 9 million additional doses of its coronavirus vaccine to the European Union during the first quarter, the bloc's executive arm said Sunday. The new target of 40 million doses by t...

PERTH, AustraIia — The city of Perth has been locked down for five days after Western Australia state’s first case of local COVID-19 infection in almost 10 months. The city of 2 million people and coastal towns to the south were locked down from Sun...

CHICAGO (AP) — A plan to reopen Chicago schools remained in limbo as last-minute negotiations over COVID-19 safety measures with the teachers' union stalled Sunday, amplifying the possibility of a strike or lockout. Roughly 62,000 students and about...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Amid the pandemic, students in fifth through 12th grades in Oklahoma City Public Schools are set to return to the classroom for in-person learning starting on Tuesday. Students in the school district began the spring semester w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The pending Supreme Court case on the fate of the Affordable Care Act could give the Biden administration its first opportunity to chart a new course in front of the justices. The health care case, argued a week after the election i...

HONG KONG (AP) — Thousands of Hong Kongers have already made the sometimes painful decision to leave behind their hometown and move to Britain since Beijing imposed a strict national security law on the Chinese territory last summer. Their numbers a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former president Donald Trump announced a new impeachment legal defense team Sunday, one day after it was revealed that he had parted ways with an earlier set of attorneys with just over a week to go before his Senate trial. The t...

IDABEL, Okla. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies in far southeast Oklahoma shot and killed a man after he began fighting with officers who responded to a report of a domestic assault, authorities said Monday. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said i...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt delivered his third State of the State speech to lawmakers Monday, painting a rosy picture of the state's economic rebound and vowing to take advantage of the reopened economy to help lure more b...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma reported nearly 1,400 new cases of the coronavirus on Monday and 17 more deaths, state health officials said. Oklahoma has recorded more than 390,000 virus cases since the pandemic began, the Oklahoma State Department o... Full story

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A pedestrian died after being hit by a pickup truck as he crossed a Wichita street over the weekend, police there said. The incident happened Friday night just north of downtown Wichita, police said. Investigators said a 6...

NEBRASKA CITY, Neb. (AP) — Four people from Topeka, Kansas, were killed in a traffic crash in Nebraska, authorities said. The collision occurred Sunday evening just south of Union, Capt. Dave Lamprecht of the Cass County Sheriff's Office said M...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly proposed Monday that Kansas should legalize marijuana for medical purposes and use the revenues to expand Medicaid health care for low-income residents, a top priority that the GOP-controlled L...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A coronavirus variant did not cause a fast-moving outbreak at a Kansas prison that infected dozens of inmates and staff, the state health department said Monday. Testing determined that the COVID-19 outbreak at the m...

Kansas State (5-13, 1-8) vs. No. 23 Kansas (11-6, 5-4) Allen Fieldhouse, Lawrence, Kansas; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: No. 23 Kansas looks to give Kansas State its 11th straight loss against ranked opponents. Kansas State's last win vs a ranked...