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Happy Birthday To Feb. 28: Raeanna Moans, Brian Howland, Tammy Boen, Devin Ferguson, Ashley Rankin, Carole Beckett, Monty Leonard Mar. 1: Travis Jarvis, Ky Luddington, Shan Wilson Mar. 3: Linda Bradt, Nelwyn Hughes, Levi John London, Larry Powers...

Happy Anniversary To Mar. 2: Mr. & Mrs. Russell Nickel Mar. 5: Mr. & Mrs. Ty Harper Mar. 10: Mr. & Mrs. Duane Gillenwaters Mar. 19: Mr. & Mrs. Gary Gerloff (Note: Send corrections, additions to: [email protected] or call 8...

On Sunday, Feb. 24, the order of services at the Freedom United Methodist Church was: Prelude by Janell Reutlinger Bible Study will start on Thursday, March 7, at 6:30 p.m. We will be studying about the apostle Simon Peter. Invocation by Pastor Todd...

SHAWNEE – Oklahoma Baptist faces Arkansas-Monticello in a men's basketball game Thursday that will play an important role in determining the final Great American Conference tournament pairings. The game is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. from Steelman F...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Harry Gard, Tristan Thomas and Evan Hafley all turned in three-hit performances, helping the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boy baseball team (10-7, 5-1 GAC) hand No. 1 Delta State (13-1, 6-0 GSC) its first loss of the season, defeating t...

SEARCY – Harding and University of the Ozarks split a pair of well-pitched games Tuesday in a nonconference doubleheader at Jerry Moore Field. Ozarks, an NCAA III opponent from Clarksville, Arkansas, won the opener 4-1, and Harding used a complete g...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma residents will be able to openly carry firearms without a background check or training under a bill given final legislative approval Wednesday that quickly became the first signed into law by the new Republican g...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tulsa County has reached a $350,000 settlement in a lawsuit filed by the estate of a local jail inmate who hanged himself in his cell a decade ago. The settlement was agreed to last week with Carolyn Cox, the mother of 3...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Rape and sexual battery charges have been dismissed against an Oklahoma City doctor who agreed to stop practicing medicine. Oklahoma County records show charges were dismissed Monday against 65-year-old Dr. John A. Fuller a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma man's new trial request for a 1999 federal murder conviction and death sentence in Arkansas has been denied, with the judge saying he doesn't have jurisdiction while noting that evidence presented by attorneys "is r...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors say no criminal charges will be filed in the shooting death of a 9-year-old Wichita boy who was playing with a loaded gun he got out of a locked safe. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said Wednesday h...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators are moving ahead with a bill aimed at making sure they and the governor are notified whenever foster children run away or go missing. The Senate approved the measure Wednesday, 40-0, sending it to the House. T...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A bill aimed at having Kansas election officials throw out fewer ballots over problems with voters' signatures has broad, bipartisan support. The Kansas Senate approved the measure Wednesday, 40-0, sending it to the House. The b...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecutors are seeking a 25-year prison sentence for a California man who made a hoax call that led police to fatally shoot a Kansas man following a dispute between online gamers. The government argued in a filing W...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The Quindaro Ruins in Kansas City are on the brink of receiving a historical designation that will help preserve the Civil War-era port of entry into Kansas and stop along the Underground Railroad. Congress voted to give Q...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is paying the company that provides health care to the state's prisons millions less than due under its contract because the company is not meeting performance standards, such as hiring enough nurses or health workers f...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A bill that would allow Kansas landowners to resell their permits to hunt white-tail deer to non-Kansas residents has barely passed the state House. The vote Wednesday was 63-60 and sent the measure to the Senate. Some rural l...

LEAWOOD, Kan. (AP) — The pastor of the largest Methodist congregation in the U.S. says he is deeply disappointed by a vote of the church's delegates that rejected easing the faith's ban on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy. Senior P...

GALVESTON, Texas (AP) — A judge has ordered the trial of a teenager accused of fatally shooting 10 people at a Texas high school be moved to another county. State District Judge John Ellisor granted Dimitrios Pagourtzis' request for a venue change W...

PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas (AP) — Enrollment growth is contributing to an acute housing shortage at Prairie View A&M University, a recurring problem that's prompting disputes over which students deserve priority for on-campus accommodation. The Houston C...

SIMSBURY, Conn. (AP) — Officials with a Connecticut school say staff has held group discussions with students, and administrators have participated in cultural competency training since two students were seen on social media in what appeared to be b...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's largest electric provider wants the state Supreme Court to delay regulatory proceedings related to a coal-fired power plant that is set to close in 2022. Public Service Co. of New Mexico is asking the high c...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Dolores Huerta, the Mexican-American social activist who formed a farmworkers union with Cesar Chavez, was honored by state lawmakers Wednesday, some of whom vowed to work to save her birthplace that now sits abandoned. The 8...