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WASHINGTON (AP) — When a summer thunderstorm knocked out power to Scott Pruitt's home three years ago, the then-attorney general of Oklahoma reached out to a lobbyist for American Electric Power. Pruitt's executive assistant emailed Howard "Bud" G...

AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Firefighters in New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas are bracing for a busy day as unseasonably warm temperatures, gusty winds and low humidity are expected to create dangerous wildfire conditions. The Storm Prediction Center in N...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A man accused of opening fire in a crowded suburban Kansas City bar, killing one man and injuring two others in an attack that some witnesses said was racially motivated, was charged Thursday with murder and attempted murder. A...

NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — A central Kansas man suspected of gunning down three other men in a home before being fatally shot by a police officer early Thursday knew his victims and targeted them, authorities said. Harvey County officials said the s...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers took a step Thursday to allow first responders to treat people overdosing on opioids with potentially lifesaving drugs. The House gave unanimous approval to a bill Thursday and will send it to the Senate for c...

COLBY, Kan. (AP) — Three Colby High School students have been confirmed with cases of mumps. Thomas County Health Department administrator Emily Strange says the Thomas County Health Department and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas House has given final approval to expanding Medicaid, years after many states had already expanded the program. The House on Thursday gave final approval by an 81 to 44 vote. The vote came after a proposal to expand t...

(THE CONVERSATION) Part of what I do as an archaeologist is judge between competing claims to truth. Indeed, you could say this is the entire purpose of science. Before we make a judgment about what is true, there are facts that have to be examined a...

HELSINKI (AP) — Nearly 10 years after a "doomsday" seed vault opened on an Arctic island, some 50,000 new samples from seed collections around the world have been deposited in the world's largest repository built to safeguard against wars or natural...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's Jupiter-circling spacecraft is stuck making long laps around the gas giant because of sticky valves. It currently takes Juno 53 days to fly around the solar system's biggest planet. That's almost four times l...

PARIS (AP) — Iraqi officials are calling for international help to reclaim archaeological sites and other heritage destroyed by Islamic State extremists. A two-day gathering at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization h...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX made good on a 250-mile-high delivery at the International Space Station on Thursday, after fixing a navigation problem that held up the shipment a day. Everything went smoothly the second time around as the s...

DOVER, Del. (AP) — Current and former workers for the Delaware Department of Correction painted a disturbing portrait Thursday of a dysfunctional agency where understaffing and lack of training have put correctional officers at risk and security h...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — So many women showed up at a Minneapolis tattoo parlor for a permanent reminder of female solidarity that it had to turn away some latecomers. Local women Chelsea Brink, Nora McInerny and Kate O'Reilly organized a fundraiser in w...

HARPURSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — The owner of a New York zoo planning to live-stream a giraffe giving birth says the video feed was briefly removed from YouTube because animal rights activists labeled it sexually explicit. Animal Adventure Park started s...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Relatives of a 91-year-old Ohio woman who died this week are giving her the last word with a sassy, occasionally profane obituary that starts with the basics — "I was born. I lived. I died." — and instructs people to "wait...

ADA – A dunk from senior Ishmael Donzo on a dish from senior Braxton Reeves with 7.7 seconds left secured the East Central University men's basketball 76-73 victory over Arkansas Tech in Great American Conference action at the Kerr Activities C...

ADA – On a night designed to say farewell to outgoing East Central University President John Hargrave, the women's basketball team gave him a great going-away present, with a 67-55 upset victory over No. 22 Arkansas Tech at the Kerr Activities C...

SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist got a career-best 32 points from Katy Custer and cruised to an 87-75 win over Arkansas-Monticello Thursday in the Noble Complex. Custer was 9 of 15 from the field and hit 4 of 5 three-point attempts. She also canned 10 o...

DURANT, Okla. – Southeastern erased a nine-point over the final minute of play before Anton Cook drained a three to force overtime where the Savage Storm outscored Harding 28-19 to finish off a 121-112 record-setting victory on Thursday night in B...