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NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The University of Oklahoma is considering another round of voluntary early retirement offers to faculty and staff as a cost-saving move amid further expected budget cuts. An agenda item for Wednesday's OU Board of Regents m...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators on Tuesday killed a bill containing proposals for higher cigarette and liquor taxes that Republican Gov. Sam Brownback offered as an alternative to fixing the state's dire budget problems by rolling back past i...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mark and Jennifer Swartz moved into their first home in November. On Tuesday, only a section of floor was left of their three-bedroom, two-bath house in Oak Grove, Missouri, after a storm system that dropped more than 30 torna...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has delayed until summer the trial against three men accused of plotting to bomb an apartment complex and mosque used by Somali immigrants in western Kansas. U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren on Tuesday s...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Livestock Association is launching a relief effort for ranchers affected by wildfires that have scorched hundreds of square miles of land in the state. The group said Tuesday it is accepting donations of feed, f...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Proposed legislation to allow the concealed carry of handguns on Arkansas college campuses continues to stall as two amendments to the measure failed to get out of a Senate committee. The two proposed amendments were presente...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — The manner in which live Nativity scenes were presented during an Indiana school district's annual holiday pageant for decades violated the U.S. Constitution and cannot be repeated, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District J...

HOUSTON (AP) — Saudi Arabia's energy minister says OPEC production cuts are working to bolster crude prices and his country will look at whether other oil-producing nations are living up to their promises to curtail pumping before deciding whether t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a nice story while it lasted. Moments from signing orders to advance the stalled Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, President Donald Trump comes up with the idea of requiring the projects to use pipes and steel made in...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas state District Court Judge has put a hold on a Texas Department of Agriculture rule change that would allow the use of a poison to help curtail the state's estimated 2.5 million feral hogs. The Austin A...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin urged Congress on Tuesday to act quickly to extend a troubled program aimed at widening veterans' access to private-sector health care, pointing to growing demand for medical treatment outsid...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful conservative backlash threatened to sink the new Republican health care bill Tuesday less than 24 hours after its launch, even as President Donald Trump and congressional leaders began trying to sell the legislation as t...

The publication by WikiLeaks of documents it says are from the CIA's secret hacking program describe tools that can turn a world of increasingly networked, camera- and microphone-equipped devices into eavesdroppers. Smart televisions and automobiles...

NEW YORK (AP) — Maybe the CIA is spying on you through your television set after all. Documents released by WikiLeaks allege a CIA surveillance program that targets everyday gadgets ranging from smart TVs to smartphones to cars. Such snooping, W...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A sweet, nutty-tasting new grain called Kernza is getting a big boost from food giant General Mills, which is intrigued by the potentially big environmental benefits of the drought-resistant crop with long roots that doesn't n...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A hunt for the killer of two sleeping homeless men in Las Vegas led to an unusual attempted murder charge Tuesday and a legal debate about criminal intent, when a man was accused of trying to kill a mannequin used as a decoy near the...

POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) — A ski instructor trying to jump between two trees on a Wyoming mountain says he crashed and ended up with an 18-inch branch impaling his lip. Natty Hagood, who works at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, was snowboarding with f...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana state lawmaker who says he won't "give in to terrorists" is refusing an apology demand from an unknown person who took over his abandoned Twitter handle. The trouble started when Republican Rep. Ed Soliday of V...