OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday upheld the murder and child neglect convictions of a woman for the death of her 8-month-old son and neglect of her 16-month-old daughter. The court rejected appeals by Ruth A...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A 51-year-old man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a man who was run over earlier this week near a Topeka hiking trail. Chad Thomas Cuevas was charged Thursday and is being held on a $1 million bond, D...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a tractor-trailer hit a street sweeper along Interstate 135 in Wichita, throwing a crew member into a canal. The Wichita Fire Department said in a Facebook post that the worker was taken to a hospital in s...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a Lawrence developer to serve three months in prison for illegal disposal of asbestos during a construction project. Thomas S. Fritzel, 54, was also ordered to pay a $55,000 fine for v...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Department of Education is developing a curriculum for teaching students statewide about the events surrounding the 1921 Tulsa race massacre. While schools across the state have been required to teach about t...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Laurie Archbald-Pannone, University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) Baby boomers – that's anyone born in the U.S. between 1946 and 1...

TheBaltimore Sun and The Wichita Eagle were awarded prestigious journalism awards on Wednesday for respective coverage of municipal corruption involving their cities' mayor's offices. Luke Broadwater and the Baltimore Sun won the George Polk Award fo...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Legislature's auditing division says state agencies have significant information technology security weaknesses and haven't made progress since previous reports showed the same problems. The Topeka Capital Journal r...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Environmentalists are struggling to get lawmakers to even discuss climate change as a serious issue in Kansas, where some leaders of the Republican-controlled Legislature question the widespread scientific consensus that human a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma House committee overwhelmingly rejected a bill on Thursday to repeal a new law that allows most adults to carry firearms without a background check or training. Despite the 11-1 vote against his bill by the House P...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Time Warner Cable will pay $18.8 million to settle a lawsuit that claimed it misled more than 170,000 California customers who paid for high-speed internet service that they didn't receive, prosecutors said Thursday. Eligible c...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Relishing in Democrats' jumbled primary in the wake of a fractious debate, President Donald Trump offered stinging criticism of his rivals as he sought to take advantage of the moment. Making a rare four-day swing t...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's mandate for rooftop solar panels on all new low-rise homes was tested for the first time on Thursday, when regulators approved a Sacramento utility's proposal to give homeowners an alternative to installing r...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska needs a comprehensive review effort to improve aviation safety because its fatal and non-fatal accident rates are far higher than the national average, the National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday. The N...

OLIVEHURST, Calif. (AP) — A paraglider spent three hours trapped in power lines before being rescued in northern California. The paraglider, who was not immediately identified, was facing the ground with the wires as his only support when first r...

NEW YORK (AP) — A federal appeals court in New York gave its approval Thursday to a $6.7 million award for nearly two dozen graffiti artists whose spray paintings at a once-famous site that attracted thousands of spectators were destroyed to make r...

NEW YORK (AP) — ViacomCBS is planning a new streaming service that will combine the existing CBS All Access service with Paramount movies and shows from Viacom channels such as MTV and BET. The move had been expected since CBS and Viacom combined i...

ABILENE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a convicted felon was arrested after he tried to use a fake $100 bill to add money to a jailed inmate's account. The Dickinson County Sheriff's Office said an employee immediately recognized the bill as a c...

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EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man accused of fatally shooting his parents was on Friday ordered to stand trial on two counts of first-degree murder. Michael Elijah Walker, 20, is accused in the March 2019 shootings of Michael Logan Walker, 50, a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter said Friday he plans to dismiss the state's lawsuit against three opioid distributors that has been moved to federal court and refile new lawsuits in state court. Hunter said the move c...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt appointed one regent on Friday to the governing boards of each of the state's top two public universities. Stitt named Anita Holloway of accounting firm Ernst & Young to the University of Oklahoma B...

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — Amy Klobuchar is heading to Middle America in a four-state swing as soon as the Nevada caucuses wrap up. Klobuchar has a Saturday evening event in Minneapolis to meet with volunteers. She heads to Fargo, North Dakota, on Sunday m...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas business groups have mobilized to snuff out a budding movement among a few cities to ban single-use plastic bags and straws, frustrating environmentalists who can't get the Republican-controlled Legislature to tackle c...

LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) — A former engineering firm executive who believes the U.S. should build a base on the moon to assist with an eventual mission to Mars is running for the Kansas congressional seat in the Kansas City area. The Kansas City Star r...