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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Missouri State University awarded 1,538 degrees to students in fall 2022. Lane Scarbrough, from Alva, graduated with a Master of Business Administration. Missouri State University is a public, comprehensive university system w...

What happens when children’s stuffed animals have a sleepover at the library? Apparently a lot! The Alva Public Library recently hosted this new event. Children dropped off a stuffed animal to be retrieved the next day. Library Director Sandra H... Full story

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A panel led by Gov. Kevin Stitt determined Friday that Oklahoma lawmakers will have about $2 billion more to spend in next year's budget than they did in the current one. The Board of Equalization certified that the L...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Republican Party has ended efforts to punish party officials who backed non-GOP candidates in last year's elections and reversed any sanctions already imposed, its new leader announced Friday. State Chair Mike Brown s...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tiger Woods had some explaining to do Friday, about a putter so cold he nearly missed the cut at Riviera, and about a chauvinist prank he played on Justin Thomas in the Genesis Invitational. In his return to elite competition f...

ARKABUTLA, Miss. (AP) — A lone gunman killed six people including his ex-wife and stepfather Friday at multiple locations in a tiny rural community in northern Mississippi, the sheriff said, leaving investigators searching for clues to what m...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — As he languished in a Missouri prison for nearly three decades, Lamar Johnson never stopped fighting to prove his innocence, even when it meant doing much of the legal work himself. This week a St. Louis judge overturned Johnson's mu...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Five former Memphis police officers pleaded not guilty Friday to second-degree murder and other charges in the violent arrest and death of Tyre Nichols, with his mother saying afterward that none of them would look her in the ey...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has finished efforts to recover the remnants of the large balloon that was shot down off the coast of South Carolina, and analysis of the debris so far reinforces conclusions that it was a Chinese spy balloon, U.S. official...