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WICHITA, Kan. — Southern Nazarene traveled up to Wichita Kan. to finish up its last series of non-conference games before getting back into Great American Conference play this weekend. The Crimson Storm took the first game 8-2 but fell to Newman 1...

ORLANDO, Fla. – The Arkansas Tech Golden Suns tennis team (10-4) bounced back from a tough loss at No. 25 Florida Southern with a 9-0 sweep in straight sets over Puerto Rico-Mayaguez at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Fla. Thursday morning. N...

CHANDLER, Okla. (AP) — Officials say two of three inmates who escaped the Lincoln County Jail have been apprehended. Sheriff Charles Dougherty told reporters Thursday that 23-year-old Brian Allen Moody and 23-year-old Mark Dwayne Robbins are back i...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's Department of Human Services would be forced to close 11 county offices and slash funding to a dozen programs that support poor, disabled and elderly Oklahomans under a 14 percent budget reduction being discussed by t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Senate has approved a proposal to study how schools could best share administrative services. The legislation directs the state Education Department to begin the study by the end of the year, though the plan still ne...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two bills that opponents say have led to boycotts in other states and could jeopardize Oklahoma's ability to attract major sporting events have been derailed in the Oklahoma Senate. The Republican-controlled Senate voted 25-18 o...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Tulsa Jail is expecting a shortfall of $3.5 million for the next fiscal year. The Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2mV6aRn ) reports the jail conducted a survey that showed Tulsa County may have to subsidize jail operations for a t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Democrats are proposing nearly $1.4 billion worth of revenue proposals to help prevent deep budget cuts to state programs and provide funding for a teacher pay raise. House Democratic Leader Scott Inman announced the p...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Potentially severe storms packing damaging winds, large hail and possibly tornadoes are in the forecast for parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas heading into the weekend. The National Weather Service says thunderstorms will develop F...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Democrat James Thompson criticized Republican Ron Estes over the GOP proposal to repeal and replacing President Barack Obama's signature health law during their first face-to-face encounter in the race to fill the House seat v...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas educators saw plenty of problems Thursday with a new school funding plan being considered by legislators, and a big one is what critics perceive as not enough new dollars. A special state House committee opened hearings on...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Top seeds Gonzaga and Kansas are among the teams preparing to play in Thursday's Sweet 16 games of the NCAA Tournament. The Jayhawks are the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Region, which holds its semifinals in Kansas City, M...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators moved closer Thursday to approving an expansion of the state's Medicaid program to provide health coverage for thousands of non-disabled adults, even though the action could prove largely symbolic. The state S...

Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas is apologizing for his comment about the possibility the GOP health care bill would ease federal requirements on coverage of basic services like mammograms. In an interview with a reporter for Talking Points...

NEWTON, Kan. (AP) — A video of a Kansas high school student asking his friend's younger sister to prom has gone viral online. The Hutchinson News (http://bit.ly/2o8x7Cl ) reports that Shaedon Wedel and Carson Wittman initially planned to both take C...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina House debate on whether someone can carry a concealed handgun on K-12 school property where church services also are held has been delayed. The bill sponsor moved the debate and likely vote on the legislation f...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas lawmakers voted Thursday to exempt college sporting events from a new state law that greatly expands where concealed handguns are allowed, moving quickly to address concerns about the sweeping gun rights measure l...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Senate sponsor of a $71 million voucher-like proposal that would let parents take public money to use it to customize their child's education has pulled the bill until next year. Sen. Delores Gresham, a Republican from S...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A voucher plan offering families public money to send their children to private and religious schools is headed to the full Texas Senate. Sen. Larry Taylor's bill would create state-subsidized education saving accounts for p...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on Israeli police saying they have arrested a Jewish Israeli man who is the prime suspect behind a wave of bomb threats against Jewish community centers and other institutions in the United States (all times local): 7...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers have passed a bill to lift the state's ban on public school teachers wearing religious clothing including habits, hijabs and yarmulkes in the classroom. Senators gave the measure final approval Thursday with a...

CAIRO (AP) — An outbreak of food poisoning has sickened thousands of Egyptian schoolchildren this month, figures showed Thursday, sending parents rushing to hospitals and leading the Education Ministry to temporarily suspend its school lunch p...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado regulators can put more weight on protecting public health and the environment when they draw up rules for oil and gas drilling, the state's second-highest court said Thursday, giving environmentalists and others a new tool to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will approve the Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, senior U.S. officials said, ending years of delay for a project that has served as a flashpoint in the national debate about climate change. The State Departm...