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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A northern Oklahoma woman accused of using the internet to solicit the killing of her ex-husband in Israel has pleaded guilty to possession of toxic ricin. Danielle Dana Layman of Ponca City entered the plea Thursday in e...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma attorney has been arrested on a felony charge for allegedly hiding her fugitive boyfriend after a judge ordered his arrest. Shelley Lynne Levisay was charged Wednesday in Cleveland County for harboring David Gerdon l...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has rejected the appeal of a man who admitted to killing two sheriff's deputies. The court on Thursday turned away 34-year-old Ezekiel Gilbert Holbert's request to withdraw his guilty p...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Firefighters say one person was found dead inside a burned travel trailer in southeast Oklahoma City. Battalion Fire Chief Benny Fulkerson says the unidentified body was in a trailer that was parked in a street in an i...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita area man charged with the rape of a 4-year-old girl at a YMCA has now been accused of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl at the same location. The Wichita Eagle reports 21-year-old Caleb Gaston was arrested W...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — New Gov. Jeff Colyer promised Thursday that Kansas will launch two new government accountability websites within the next four months as part of a larger effort to make the state more transparent. Colyer issued four executive o...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A chemistry professor living in Kansas who faced imminent deportation to Bangladesh has been granted a temporary stay. Lawyers representing 55-year-old Syed Ahmed Jamal announced Thursday that a judge issued the temporary s...

GARDNER, Kan. (AP) — A mother of a slain 2-year-old has filed a lawsuit against the suburban Kansas City girl's father, his fiancée and the fiancee's father. The Kansas City Star reports that Stephanie Porting alleges in the lawsuit filed Tuesday th...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A woman has been charged in a Kansas City, Kansas, stabbing death after she was arrested over the weekend following a disturbance at a Missouri hotel. Twenty-eight-year-old Tara Treece, of Kansas City, Kansas, is awaiting e...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State associate head coach and special-teams coordinator Sean Snyder is expressing thanks for an outpouring of support after the death of his 22-year-old son. Sean Snyder tweeted a family photo Wednesday describing h...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The University of New Mexico has announced it is suspending head football coach Bob Davie for 30 days in connection with alleged physical abuse of football players. The school said Thursday that Davie was suspended after a C...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Law enforcement officials on Wednesday disputed a Southern Poverty Law Center report asserting that a gunman in a deadly New Mexico school shooting had been influenced by white supremacist views. The Alabama-based o...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut package just two months ago. Turns out it wasn't enough. Wedged into the new mammoth Senate spending deal is a pack of tax breaks for homeowners and electric car owners — as well as goo...

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas-based Tyson Foods Inc. says more than 100,000 employees will receive bonuses as a result of company savings due to the overhaul of federal tax laws. Tyson said Thursday that full-time employees who do not receive a...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico lawmakers may set up a community task force as they consider restricting public access to body camera recordings of police interactions with people with mental illnesses. A Republican Senator and House Democrat p...

WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — A central Wisconsin man is accused of trying to kill his unborn child by spiking the water bottle of the woman carrying the fetus with abortion pills. Thirty-two-year-old Jeffrey Smith is charged with attempted first-degree h...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Supreme Court said Thursday the mother of a television news anchor killed in a 2008 attack can move forward with a complaint that hospital employees not involved in the journalist's medical care acted o...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — The FBI has concluded two young children took explicit photos found at an Army installation's day care center and that no adults were involved, White Sands Missile Range officials said. The investigation began in December a...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Missouri man who randomly killed an Air Force veteran before barging into a different house declaring, "I am here to slaughter the lambs," has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. The Gazette reports a j...

Retailers such as Target and Amazon are embracing mobile applications to help consumers save money and time with features like digital wallets and augmented reality. When used strategically, apps can streamline in-store trips and online purchases,...

DENVER (AP) — A bipartisan group of 19 Western governors said Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke did not consult with them about major plans for reorganizing the agency, and have asked him to delay implementing the proposal until he speaks with them. T...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Another asteroid is headed our way — the second this week — but there's no need to worry. The newly discovered space rock will pass within 39,000 miles (64,000 kilometers) of Earth on Friday afternoon. That's less than...

MARIB, Yemen (AP) — Along a narrow road in Yemen choked by natural gas tankers and heavily armed soldiers lies an ancient temple neglected and threatened in a nation now at war. The Awwam Temple links a region now on the front lines of the S...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is again understating the threat posed by climate change, this time by suggesting that global warming may be a good thing for humanity. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has championed th...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Maine dairy company has settled a lawsuit over an overtime dispute that was the subject of a ruling hinging on the use of the Oxford comma. Drivers with Oakhurst Dairy filed the lawsuit in 2014 seeking more than $10 m...