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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Talk about a globe-trotter: A Tulsa dentist has joined the small, elite club of athletes who've completed the World Marathon Challenge — by finishing seven marathons on seven continents in seven days. Dr. Raj Patel began the cha...

MEADE, Kan. (AP) — Off a dirt road on an abandoned farmstead in Meade County, Rex Buchanan searched for a metal pipe hidden in tall weeds. Back a few decades ago, the search would have taken much longer - almost like finding a needle in a haystack. B...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Gayle slinks close to the ground across Theis Park, aiming to get close to a flock of Canada geese before they're aware. It doesn't work. The grassy expanse stretching between the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Brush Creek p...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach , a confidant of President Donald Trump on immigration, is asking the state Legislature to pass two measures aimed at fighting illegal immigration by barring "sanctuary cities" and allowing st...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials said relisting the lesser prairie chicken as threatened or endangered would negatively affect the state's economy and agricultural industry. Gov. Sam Brownback, state Attorney General Derek Schmidt and state D...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Thursday he's asked several agencies to come up with contingency plans for potential budget cuts after finance officials said the state had collected $57 million less in revenue than had b...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is considering having a private company build a new prison and lease it back to the cash-strapped state to replace its oldest and largest lockup, an idea that some critics see as a step toward privatizing the entire correct...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two bills before a Kansas Senate committee would make government meetings and records more accessible to the public. The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee heard the bills Thursday. One bill, introduced by Lawrence Sen. M...

PAOLA, Kan. (AP) — A church pastor and longtime eastern Kansas homeless shelter director has admitted that he sexually abused two children. The Kansas City Star reports (http://bit.ly/2kYBjUg ) 58-year-old Jay Preston on Thursday pleaded guilty to t...

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Ford County Sheriff Bill Carr says a police chase damaged property at the Dodge City airport before two people were arrested. Carr says the chase began Wednesday when a deputy saw a man who had a warrant from the Kansas D...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon isn't content just being the "everything store." Increasingly, it looks like it wants to be its own deliveryman, too. Its Monday announcement of a new air cargo hub in Kentucky is merely Amazon's latest foray into building o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Philip Morris International reported fourth-quarter earnings that fell just short of expectations, but exponential growth in shipments of its "heat-not-burn" products and improved outlook for 2017 impressed investors and boosted i...

WILLISTON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont agriculture officials are discussing how to replace immigrant farmworkers, who are key to the success of the state's dairy industry, should they be targeted under the Trump administration's immigrant policy. The state ha...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A deal disclosed Thursday will allow the mass slaughter of hundreds of wild bison migrating from Yellowstone National Park, while sparing 25 animals that American Indian tribes want to start new herds. The Associated Press obta...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas has joined forces with water users along the lower Rio Grande in hopes of finding a way to end the state's long-running dispute with Texas over management of the river. Balderas i...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A bill approved by the Senate would allow state inspectors to carry out warrantless inspections of hundreds of Virginia produce farms to ensure compliance with federal regulations. "It's one of those bills you don't like, but s...

JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Everyone's had a bad conference call experience when someone who dialed in puts the call on hold, and loud hold music makes it impossible for the call to continue. The Alaska Marijuana Control Board had a bit of that and a s...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — Some new art in a West Texas park has wheels and was previously used to help save lives. Organizers say more than two dozen people took turns placing thousands of colorful tiles on a retired firetruck to create artwork for a...

LAKE GENEVA, Wis. (AP) — Fifteen teams of snow sculptors from 13 states have gathered in Wisconsin for the U.S. National Snow Sculpting Championship. The event began Wednesday in Lake Geneva, with judging set for Saturday morning. The team that w...

BERLIN (AP) — A wall has appeared around the United States — at a popular miniature world attraction in the German city of Hamburg. Operators of the Miniatur Wunderland erected the wall complete with barbed wire this week, separating the U.S. dis...

PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — The handlers of Pennsylvania's most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, said the furry rodent has "predicted" six more weeks of winter after seeing his shadow at dawn Thursday. The top hat-wearing members of the P...

MILAN (AP) — The Mafia stronghold of Corleone has produced another godfather saga, but this one is unlikely to end up as a movie. A bishop in Sicily is contesting a parish priest's decision to allow the son of Italy's most notorious mobster to b...

OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — A former Royal Canadian Mint employee who stole 22 cookie-sized pieces of refined gold by hiding them in his rectum has been sentenced to 30 months in prison. Thirty-five-year-old Leston Lawrence was found guilty last N...

ARKADELPHIA, ARK. – After ending the first half trailing by 22, the East Central University men's basketball team fell to Ouachita Baptist 68-79 in Great American Conference road action. The Tigers (14-6, 10-4 GAC) were paced by freshman Camron T...

SEARCY, ARK. – Steven Green scored nine points in his first game back from injury in a 91-52 loss at Harding Thursday. Green had missed four full games and most of the Southern Nazarene game with injury. He hit three three-pointers Thursday. Kevin F...