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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The president of Kansas State has asked Wildcat basketball fans to stop using vulgar chants targeted at the Kansas Jayhawks when the rivals meet in Bramlage Coliseum. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2lQLZEl ) reports that K...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Some Republicans in the Oklahoma Legislature are pushing back against voter-approved changes in November to soften drug possession penalties, arguing that voters didn't know exactly what they were doing when they approved the i...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Attorneys for a Tulsa man facing first-degree murder and hate crime charges in the killing of his Lebanese neighbor say they will pursue an insanity defense. Online court records show that lawyers for 63-year-old Stanley Vernon M...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court a ruling over a California law that prohibits the sale of eggs from chickens that are not raised in accordance with strict space requirements, t...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — Two former jailers at the Muskogee County Jail have been resentenced to longer terms in prison for violating the civil rights of inmates. Federal prosecutors say 46-year-old former jail superintendent Raymond Barnes was s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Members of an Oklahoma Senate subcommittee have given preliminary approval to six bills that would raise the salaries of Oklahoma public school teachers. The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Education on Wednesday a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma House committee has given preliminary approval to bills that expand gun rights in Oklahoma. A measure by Republican Rep. Jeff Coody would allow non-felons to transport an unloaded rifle or shotgun, concealed or u...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The first group of refugees has arrived in Tulsa since a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump's travel ban on refugees. Don Vung, 42, of Myanmar arrived in Tulsa Tuesday night with her three daughters and her mother Thang...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Oklahoma schools Superintendent Joy Hofmeister and others charged in an alleged illegal fundraising scheme. Court records show the hearing is set for Aug. 16-18 for Hofmeister, p...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Mary Fallin has cancelled a burn ban in she recently issued for 53 counties in Oklahoma. Fallin cancelled the ban Wednesday at the recommendation of Oklahoma Forestry Services after an analysis of the impact of widespread r...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Mary Fallin says no state agency has paid ransom to ward off cyber-attacks. The Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2lPvlWh ) reports Fallin and her administration's top information technology official made the statement Tuesday, a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Chesapeake Energy Corp. has announced plans to increase its drilling budget and rig count in 2017, saying that confidence is growing in the hard-hit energy market. The Oklahoma City-based company said Tuesday that it would i...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Law enforcement officials are skeptical of two Kansas bills backed by Secretary of State Kris Kobach that would pull officers into federal immigration law enforcement. The bills would train Kansas Highway Patrol officers t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators learned Wednesday that they might have enough bipartisan support to pass a big income tax increase to balance the state's budget, though Republican Gov. Sam Brownback said he would not sign the measure. The G...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Farmers in central Kansas shut down their wells more often as two aquifers saw water levels rise from last year's timely rains, according to new data. The Kansas Geological Survey released data on aquifer levels this week, the...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Education Commissioner says the state isn't keeping up with getting the number of students with post-secondary degrees to match workforce needs. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2l8bp16 ) reports C...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gun-rights advocates sent a strong signal Wednesday that they still have enough clout in the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature to make sure that concealed firearms are allowed in hospitals and on university campuses s...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas Senate panel on Wednesday advanced legislation requiring colleges and universities to allow concealed handguns on campus, rejecting a proposal to make employees who want to be armed undergo additional training. T...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A dire forecast for state government revenues in the coming fiscal year remains unchanged after a review by a group of state economists that sets parameters for government spending, a top budget negotiator in the House of R...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A company that once planned a $1.5 billion effort in New Mexico to link three major U.S. electricity grid systems and pump more renewable energy to more populated markets said Wednesday that it has scaled down the plan to o...

PHOENIX (AP) — The Legislature's independent budget office estimates that expanding a school voucher program to all Arizona schoolchildren over the next four years could cost more than $24 million, a number that could go much higher. That's b...

NEVADA, Iowa (AP) — Police in central Iowa have arrested a man they say left messages at a high school threatening to kill a transgender student there. The Nevada (ne-VAY'-duh) Public Safety Department says police arrested 65-year-old Mondell O...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The national Phi Kappa Psi fraternity has temporarily suspended its Creighton University chapter while it investigates allegations that a new member attacked a woman on campus with a knife. The Omaha World-Herald reports (...

KINGS POINT, N.Y. (AP) — Federal officials say a training program that places U.S. Merchant Marine Academy midshipmen on board commercial vessels is resuming. The program called Sea Year had been halted amid concerns about sexual assault and h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of parents across the country have called on President Donald Trump to embrace Obama-era protections for transgender students that allow them use to school bathrooms in accord with their gender identity. In a letter sent t...