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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A courthouse in south-central Kansas has opened a pantry for low-paid judicial workers who can't afford to buy food. The Wichita Eagle reports that the pantry at Sedgwick County District Court is about four months old. C...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say an 18-year-old woman was fatally shot as she sat in a car in south Wichita. Officer Charley Davidson says the woman, her 18-year-old boyfriend and her 40-year-old mother had just arrived at a home early Tuesday w...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who owns a trophy-hunting company has pleaded guilty to illegally importing deer into Kansas. The U.S. attorney's office says 48-year-old Robert McConnell, pleaded guilty Monday to four counts. The Slippery R...

Forecasters cautioned motorists across parts of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas to beware of icy roads as sleet and freezing rain bear down on the region. The worst weather was expected Wednesday morning in north-central Arkansas, where the National...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The jury hearing the case of an Oklahoma man charged with first-degree murder and a hate crime in the killing of his Lebanese neighbor was dismissed Tuesday after attorneys trying the 2016 case rested. A judge sent jurors home f...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court says a petition that seeks to allow optometrists to operate inside stores meets the requirements of the state constitution. The state's highest court Tuesday rejected a challenge to the petition f...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The former chief financial officer of the Oklahoma State Department of Health alleges another state agency knew of and tried to hide the Health Department's multimillion dollar budget woes. Mike Romero's allegations have r...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two U.S. Postal Service workers accused of stealing marijuana from packages at a mail sorting facility in Oklahoma have pleaded guilty. The Tulsa World reports that 47-year-old Laura Mae Campbell pleaded guilty to conspiracy u...

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) — A Cornell University fraternity chapter that held a sex contest that members dubbed the Pig Roast in reference to the weight of the women they slept with has been placed on probation for two years. The university said officials l...

MAPLEWOOD, Minn. (AP) — Police say a third-grader at a Minnesota school got his finger on the trigger of a liaison officer's holstered gun, causing it to fire a bullet into the floor. Maplewood police say no one was injured when the gun fired M...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — The University of Arizona's public health college and its mineral resources institute will use a $1.6 million grant to help improve mine safety training. The federal grant announced Monday will be used to develop new training m...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The Trump administration's plan to drill for oil and gas off the coast of the United States drew protests Tuesday in Congress and on the streets. In Oregon, more than 100 protesters gathered outside the state capitol in Salem a...

DENVER (AP) — From its headquarters in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Bureau of Land Management oversees some of the nation's most prized natural resources: vast expanses of public lands rich in oil, gas, coal, grazing for livestock, habitat for w...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — An environmental activist from Seattle was sentenced Tuesday to serve one year in prison for targeting an oil pipeline in North Dakota. Michael Foster, 53, cut through a chain link fence and turned a shut-off valve on the Keysto...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. has endorsed George P. Bush's re-election bid for Texas land commissioner, repaying Bush for breaking with his powerful political family and supporting Donald Trump's 2016 presidential bid. The president's o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Eleven Democratic state attorneys general have sued President Donald Trump's administration over its decision to delay implementation of an Obama-era rule that would have expanded the number of wetlands and small waterways p...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Between 1500 and 1866, slave traders forced 12.5 million Africans aboard transatlantic slave vessels. Before 1820,...

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico sheriff's deputy says authorities have found two bodies and a vehicle in remote eastern New Mexico, and investigators are awaiting a medical examiner's report to determine whether the remains are those of a m...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Health Department recorded nearly 30 more flu-related deaths over the past week, bringing the total number this season to 122. Department officials told state lawmakers that the total figure as of Monday is t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican lawmakers are threatening to cut off U.S. funding for the World Health Organization's cancer research program over its finding that the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup is probably carcinogenic to humans. H...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Tuesday "there will be no gaps in service" in the nation's $260 million family planning program, even as it acknowledged missing a deadline last fall for providing critical grant information to local a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health authorities say an herbal supplement promoted as an alternative pain remedy contains the same chemicals found in opioids, the addictive family of drugs at the center of a national addiction crisis. The Food and Drug A...

CLEVELAND (AP) — A federal judge in Ohio has ordered attorneys and others to keep quiet about settlement discussions involving hundreds of lawsuits filed over the country's opioid epidemic. Judge Dan Polster says parties to the lawsuits can only r...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) During the second quarter of Super Bowl LII, the party stopped, if just for a second. Tom Brady found Patriots wide...

HOUSTON (AP) — Data figures show the rate of attempted suicide recorded inside the Texas prison system has more than doubled in four years. Texas Department of Criminal Justice data outlined in Emergency Action Center reports show state prisons a...