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When the children of U.S. service members sexually assault one another on a military base there often is no justice. That's because federal law governs civilians on many U.S. military installations, and federal prosecutors have little interest in pur...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military leaders are considering new guidelines for the use of helmet cameras on the battlefield after Islamic State-linked fighters in Niger exploited footage taken by a fallen American soldier to make a propaganda video t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — National Geographic acknowledged on Monday that it covered the world through a racist lens for generations, with its magazine portrayals of bare-breasted women and naive brown-skinned tribesmen as savage, unsophisticated and u...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma lawmakers have approved a bill to close a legal loophole that allows sex offenders to live near their victims. Senate Bill 1221 passed unanimously Monday and would prohibit an offender from loitering within 1,000 feet o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A bill that opponents say would allow religious-based adoption agencies to discriminate against same-sex couples, single people and non-Christians has cleared the Oklahoma Senate. Senate Bill 1140 passed 35-9 Tuesday and now h...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The head of an Oklahoma agency that manages $2.5 billion in pension funds for municipal police officers has been fired after allegations of embezzlement. The board for the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System voted 1...

BIXBY, Okla. (AP) — Attorneys for four ex-high school football players charged in Oklahoma with sexually assaulting a former teammate want the prosecutor trying the case removed because they say his office has close ties with the accuser's family. C...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Secretary of State Dave Lopez is resigning from Gov. Mary Fallin's cabinet, saying he needs to focus more on his "personal and business endeavors." Fallin's office confirmed Tuesday that Lopez plans to stay on the job u...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma big man Khadeem Lattin wanted to cap his college career the right way, but his team's regular-season fade put its fate in the NCAA Tournament selection committee's hands. The Sooners lost eight of 10 down the stretch, an...

WICHITA, Kansas (AP) — A Kansas official has debunked a widely shared story that recently resurfaced on Facebook about a woman named Dorothy whose Oklahoma home supposedly flew nearly 130 miles before landing outside Wichita. Sedgwick County s...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Prosecutors have released video of the fatal shooting of an Oklahoma man by his bond agent — who was acquitted in the case — that shows the man asking why he was being arrested before he's shot. A jury found Chasity Carey...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are considering bringing sports betting to the state, but even with potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in wagering on the line, not everyone is on board. The House Federal and State Affairs Committee had...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A bill that would legalize and regulate medical marijuana in Oklahoma has failed to pass in the Senate amid concerns over anticipating a vote by residents. The Tulsa World reports that Oklahoma voters will go to the polls June 2...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's revenue collections for February were $294.2 million, $2 million below the monthly estimate but $46 million more than was collected in February 2017. State Office of Management and Services Director Denise Northrup s...

DURANT, Okla. (AP) — The prime minister of Ireland has visited members of a Native American tribe in Oklahoma to thank them for a gift sent 171 years ago. Members of the Choctaw Nation collected $170 in 1847 and sent it to Dublin to help feed the I...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — An expert witness called by Secretary of State Kris Kobach in a trial over Kansas' voter registration law endured intense questioning over his estimation that 18,000 noncitizens have voted in the state. Jesse Richman, an a...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A lawsuit filed by BuzzFeed has been dismissed against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach over an open records request. BuzzFeed filed the lawsuit in October, arguing that Kobach's office had refused to release emails c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer has declared a drought emergency, warning or watch across the entire state. Colyer signed an executive order Tuesday following several weeks of abnormally dry conditions in all 105 counties. He declared a...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Four siblings in the Kansas foster care system have all been adopted by the same family. Johnson County District Court Judge Kathleen Sloan made the adoptions official on Monday for Alisia, 17; Bradley, 16; Cody, 15; and Emma, 1...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Three cases of the measles have been confirmed at a child care facility in suburban Kansas City. The Johnson County, Kansas, Department of Health and Environment says on its website Tuesday that all three cases are in children u...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The founder and editor of the Liberty Press, a Kansas-based LGBTQ newspaper with the motto, "We were gay before it was cool," has died. The Wichita Eagle reports that Kristi Parker died Saturday after suffering a stroke. She w...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A $1.5 billion settlement was reached in a class-action lawsuit covering tens of thousands of farmers, grain-handling facilities and ethanol plants that sued Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its introduction of a g...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita is preparing to host NCAA tournament games this week, and police are taking steps to ensure that the thousands of visitors flocking to the city are safe. The police department is working with the Sedgwick County S...

FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) — A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other kids on base. An Associated P...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — While students across the country plan walkouts to protest gun violence, teens at a New Mexico high school still reeling from a deadly shooting in December have organized a "walk-up" to help unify a rural campus with v...