OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Kevin Stitt on Thursday appointed state Department of Human Services Director Justin Brown to his cabinet as secretary of Human Services and Early Childhood Development. As cabinet secretary, Brown will oversee agencies a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The state of Oklahoma has confirmed a third positive case of the new coronavirus, who military officials identified Thursday as an airman assigned to Altus Air Force Base who had recently traveled to Seattle. The three c...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — When Lessie Benningfield Randle turned 105 on Nov. 10, she wanted two things for her birthday. Randle, one of the last remaining survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, wanted to look pretty and have her north Tulsa home r...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents called racial slurs that two professors used in their classrooms "disgusting" during its first meeting since dozens of students staged a sit-in outside the school's administrative o...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — As Kansas recorded its first death from the coronavirus, athletic officials canceled the state's high school basketball tournaments and hospitals and nursing homes restricted access. Gov. Laura Kelly announced Thursday the d...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The good news for Kansas public colleges: 1,000 more Latino students will be enrolled a decade from now, enough to fill the seats left empty by fewer white students. The bad news? The state predicts fewer students will earn a deg...

GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — Before June 2018, finding cattle that were potentially exposed to diseases was time-consuming and complicated, requiring a patchwork of information from auction houses, feedlots, producers and meatpacking plants. That's w...

VAIL, Colo. (AP) — A skier who died at Vail has been identified as a 20-year-old man from Kansas. The Vail Daily reports ski patrol was called to an intermediate run at the resort's Blue Sky Basin area, and the man, identified by the Eagle County c...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mounting concerns about the coronarvirus spread to state capitols across the country Thursday, as some lawmakers halted their sessions, shut out the public and scrambled to finish work on essential spending bills to keep go...

Platte City, MO (AP) — Jurors convicted a Kansas man of murder for shooting an unarmed man in the back at a home in Missouri, prosecutors said. The Platte County prosecutor's office said in a news release Thursday that Coty Borst, 28, of Shawnee, K...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Two Kansas men were charged Thursday with first-degree murder and other crimes connected to the death of an 83-year-old Vermillion man, authorities said. The murder charges stem from the Jan. 24 death of Donald E. McLaughlin a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — One man died and another was seriously injured when their motorcycles collided with a school bus in Wichita, police said. Tyler Bins, 22, died and a 49-year-old man was injured in the collision with a bus for McLean Magnet E...

LEON, Kan. (AP) — Crews are searching for the body of a 2-year-old southeast Kansas girl after her father drove them both off a 30-foot embankment and into a river, authorities said Thursday. Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet said the father drove i...

HARLAN, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa judge has ordered a psychological evaluation of a Kansas man who asked the judge to let him engage in a sword fight with his ex-wife and her attorney so that he can "rend their souls" from their bodies. David Ostrom, 4...

MADRID, Spain (AP) — Tens of millions of students stayed home on three continents, security forces went on standby to guard against large gatherings of people, and bars, restaurants and offices closed Friday to slow the spread of the coronavirus p...

Stocks are clawing back some of their recent losses Friday morning at the end of a brutal week of selling as the spreading coronavirus heightened fears of a global recession. The gains follow the worst slide for the U.S. market since the Black...

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq's military said five security force members and a civilian were killed early Friday in a barrage of U.S. airstrikes launched hours after a rocket attack killed and wounded American and British servicemen at a base north of B...

President Donald Trump's administration announced Friday it is awarding $1.3 million to two companies trying to develop rapid COVID-19 tests that could detect whether a person is positive for the new coronavirus within an hour. The Department of...

BOSTON (AP) — The Boston Marathon, the world's most celebrated footrace, was postponed until Sept. 14 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh announced the decision Friday. The Boston Athletic Association, which oversees the m...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two servicemen killed in an Iraqi rocket attack on a U.S. base in Iraq were an Oklahoman and a Californian, the U.S. Department of Defense said Friday. Air Force Staff Sgt. Marshal Roberts, 28, of Owasso, and Army Spc. Juan Migue...

The Associated Press said Friday it would temporarily close its office in Washington, D.C. after a staffer who had direct contact with a possible coronavirus patient showed some symptoms of illness. The staffer was one of hundreds of journalists at...

REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Friday he is stepping down from the company's board to focus on philanthropy. Gates was Microsoft's CEO until 2000 and since then has gradually scaled back his involvement in the company h...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Scott L. Montgomery, University of Washington (THE CONVERSATION) The world is again undergoing an oil shock. Prices, already on a...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A second man has been charged in a shooting that killed one person and injured four others last month in a popular Kansas City entertainment district. Ernest Jones is jailed on $150,000 cash only bond after he was charged Thur...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Legislation allowing Idaho school district employees with an enhanced concealed weapons license to carry a concealed weapon on school property was killed by a Senate committee Friday. The Post Register reports that the Senate S...