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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma legislative leaders indicated Tuesday they have no plans to pursue new revenue-raising proposals following the failure of a bill that included a $5,000 teacher pay raise, and that another round of budget cuts is l...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A judge in Oklahoma has ruled that a former senior airman suspected of setting off a pipe bomb outside an Air Force recruiting office will be forced to take medication to restore his competency to stand trial on explosives c...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma auditor says a cleanup contract for the heavily polluted Tar Creek Superfund site cost five times more than it should have. Auditor Gary Jones renewed his call for a 2011 audit on Monday. He accused the attorney g...

PRYOR CREEK, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma woman accused of raping one of her four foster children has resigned from a junior high school. Pryor Public Schools Superintendent Don Raleigh tells The Miami News-Record that 34-year-old Stephanie Cowan was s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma lawmaker is calling for the ouster of a judge who approved probation for a man who admitted raping a 13-year-old Texas girl at a church camp. House Resolution 1025 by Republican Rep. Mike Ritze asks the Oklahoma C...

PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — A woman in southeast Kansas has accused a city, its police chief and a former police officer of failing to protect her from a sexual assault. The lawsuit filed Monday alleges the city of Pittsburg tolerated an atmosphere of s...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A health care operator's recent deal to move from Missouri to Kansas has reignited criticism of the economic border issue that has seen both states dish out millions to dozens of companies to move across the state line. Kansas...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Tests found a high level of alcohol in the blood of a Kansas man who fatally shot his brother and then himself last year. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports an autopsy found the blood alcohol level of 29-year-old Shawn Jacobs t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas State Board of Education has approved an audit of how state funds are distributed to public schools following questions about the allocation of some dollars. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the board accepted a...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas father and husband who is fighting efforts to deport him to Bangladesh was taken off a plane that was flying him back to his native country and is being held at a detention center in Hawaii, his attorneys said T...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators are overhauling the state's drunk driving laws to crack down on offenders and replace a defunct law that allowed police to compel suspects to blood alcohol testing. The U.S. Supreme Court determined a w...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A child care worker has been charged with sexually assaulting a second child at a YMCA in Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that Caleb Gaston was charged Monday with aggravated indecent liberties with a 3-year-old girl. He h...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas bill receiving widespread support would allow the expansion of confined chicken growing operations within proximity to residential areas. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Senate bill was endorsed Monday by t...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have identified the victim of a deadly shooting in a Kansas City, Kansas, home as a 48-year-old man. Police say the victim was Jarrod O'Donnell. He was found dead late Saturday in a neighborhood west of the K...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Kansas election officials are putting the brakes on a dog's campaign for governor. KWCH-TV reports that Terran Woolley, of Hutchinson, decided to file the paperwork over the weekend for his 3-year-old pooch, Angus, to run f...

PRATTY, Kan. (AP) — Investigators are unable to discover the cause of a fire that killed a Kansas mother and her four children. WIBW reports that the Kansas Office of the State Fire Marshal says the cause of the Jan. 25 blaze in Pratt has been c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas inmate has pleaded guilty to stabbing and injuring a corrections officer. Twenty-seven-year-old Allen Thomas Schroeder Jr. pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree attempted murder and conspiracy to commit second-degree a...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — The outgoing head of a suburban St. Louis school district has been picked to lead the third largest Kansas school system. The Shawnee Mission School District announced the selection of Mike Fulton as superintendent M...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A mostly white Alabama city can't break away from a heavily black county school system to form its own educational district, a federal appeals ruled Tuesday in a desegregation case dating to 1965. A three-judge panel of the 1...

ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — When a teen began firing at students on a South Carolina elementary school's playground, the principal said her horror became even worse when she recognized him as a former student. "He's been here. He knows where our kids a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is targeting federal funding for studying and tracking climate change while boosting the continued burning of planet-warming fossil fuels. The White House's 2019 spending plan seeks to reduce or eliminate c...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado oil and gas regulators are raising taxes on energy developers to help pay for the environmental impacts of drilling. The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission approved a plan on Monday to raise $4.8 million more in t...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — U.S. prosecutors say Venezuela's former oil czar received bribes as part of a major graft scheme that allegedly took place in the OPEC nation's oil industry, an American official familiar with the probe said. Rafael Ramirez, w...

PARIS (AP) — A leading energy watchdog says that the boom in U.S. oil production is reminiscent of the rise in output that eventually led to the 2014 crash in crude prices. The International Energy Agency, a policy adviser to countries, says in i...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) U.S. natural gas production has boomed in the past decade, driving gas prices sharply downward. Natural gas has...