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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem reopened early on Wednesday after Israeli officials suspended a plan to impose taxes on church properties in the holy city. The iconic church, revered by Christians as the site of J...

PHOENIX (AP) — A former Arizona state senator easily outpaced another candidate embroiled in a sexting scandal and 10 other Republicans to win Tuesday's primary to replace a U.S. congressman who quit amid charges of sexual misconduct. Former state Se...

TOKYO (AP) — The schoolchildren have had their say: A pair of futuristic digital characters will be the mascots for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. Organizers unveiled the winning designs at a school in Tokyo on Wednesday. A total of 2...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — North Korea sent items used in ballistic missile and chemical weapons programs to Syria along with missile technicians in violation of U.N. sanctions — and banned ballistic missiles systems to Myanmar, U.N. experts said. The...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma voters would decide whether to make it easier for their Legislature to raise taxes under a bill that has cleared its first hurdle. The Senate Rules Committee on Wednesday approved a resolution asking voters to reduce t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma City police captain is being investigated by the department's internal affairs for the fatal shooting of his neighbor's dog. Police say Capt. Brian Williford was off-duty and carrying his personal rifle when he s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Mary Fallin has reappointed Mike Turpen to the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education. Turpen is a former state attorney general now in private law practice. His current term is to expire this year. Pending c...

LARNED, Kan. (AP) — A former western Kansas sheriff's detective is charged with three felonies after an investigation into the theft of department funds. Forty-three-year-old Jeffrey Allen King, of Larned, was charged Friday in Pawnee County with m...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a train has struck and killed one person on a railroad bridge near Topeka and that a woman was injured when she jumped to get out of the way. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 21-year-old Christian Charay, o...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The editor of the student newspaper at Wichita State University fears that it's funding is at risk of being cut in half next year because of aggressive coverage. Chance Swaim, editor-in-chief of The Sunflower, raised concerns a...

BURRTON, Kan. (AP) — Reno County authorities say a man died when he was hit by a pickup after his car got stuck in a ditch. Deputy Kevin Sipe says the accident Tuesday southeast of Burrton killed 58-year-old Carl Yoder. KAKE-TV reports after a n...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Charges have been dropped against a Lawrence man who was jailed for 1.5 years in a sex crimes case. Fifty-one-year-old Tracy Releford was charged after an encounter in August 2016 encounter with a 16-year-old girl that moved b...

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Like many teens, Casey Sherman was up late the night before, and was running a bit behind for her first day back to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. She scrambled to find her car keys in a bedroom with pale pink walls, c...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez says schools could utilize retired police officers for campus security as a cost-effective approach to make schools safer. The Albuquerque Journal reports the Republican governor made the s...

A diversity report released Wednesday on college sports finds little progress in improving racial and gender hiring practices. The report card from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at Central Florida says NCAA member schools co...

KINGMAN, Ariz. (AP) — Police are investigating whether any students at a Kingman high school intentionally started a rumor about a planned shooting. Additional officers were stationed Wednesday at Kingman Academy of Learning High School after n...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese women who say "Me too" do so at their own risk. Online comments accused Rika Shiiki of lying and being a publicity hound when she tweeted that she lost business contracts after refusing to have sex with clients. Some said t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Court records show that investigators believe a private detective hired by a longtime Texas political consultant placed a tracker on an Oklahoma legislator's vehicle. The Oklahoman reports that the consultant, 70-year-old G...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California stands in "complete opposition" to a Trump administration plan to scrap a policy slashing climate-changing emissions from power plants, its top air official said Wednesday at a U.S. hearing in a state helping lead the...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge who halted construction of a crude oil pipeline through a Louisiana swamp concluded that the project's irreversible environmental damage outweighs the economic harm that a delay brings to the company b...

Think of beer and you may think of Irish pubs or Germany's Oktoberfest. But a National Geographic book called the "Atlas of Beer" surveys beer across six continents, from banana beer in Tanzania to beer aged in wine barrels in Argentina. "We like to...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Tyson Foods Inc.'s poultry subsidiary has been ordered to pay a $2 million fine for discharges from a southwest Missouri plant that caused a fish kill. The U.S. Justice Department announced Tuesday that Tyson also must pay $...

NEW YORK (AP) — Keith Richards says he regrets saying Mick Jagger needed a vasectomy after recently having his eighth child. In a story posted Wednesday morning, The Wall Street Journal magazine reported that Richards said "it's time for the snip ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State Department of Natural Resources officials say 6 percent of deer tested last year were infected with chronic wasting disease. According to DNR data presented to the agency's board Wednesday, 593 of 9,685 deer tested b...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Climbers on North America's tallest mountain may have to start packing out more of their poop after a researcher determined a glacier in which much of it has been dumped over the past decade probably is not decomposing the h...