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CONWAY, Ark. – Three members of the Harding women's outdoor track and field team are taking on three members of the Hendrix College team in the heptathlon Friday and Saturday at the Hendrix Spring Break Multi. After the first day of competition, w...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma state senator charged with child prostitution will have a preliminary hearing conference next month. Ralph Shortey, an Oklahoma City Republican, made his first court appearance in the case Friday in Cleveland C...

PERRY, Okla. (AP) — A principal and a teacher north of Oklahoma City may resign after being accused of failing to report alleged child abuse. An agenda shows that the Perry Public School board will meet Monday to consider the resignations and r...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A newly released audit of an Oklahoma sheriff's office shows thousands of items valued at more than $3.3 million missing from its inventory, including vehicles, firearms, computers and other equipment. The audit released F...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has ruled that a Tulsa police officer charged with first-degree manslaughter won't have further preliminary hearing proceedings. The Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2mYxDBG ) reports 4...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma food company is recalling more than 466 tons (422 metric tons) of breaded chicken because of possible metal in the food. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday that OK Food, Inc. is recalling 933,272 (...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the life prison sentence of a 28-year-old man convicted of killing his girlfriend's 19-month-old daughter. The appeals court handed down the decision Friday in the case of S...

MIAMI, Texas (AP) — Stiff winds quickly spread a wildfire in the Texas Panhandle across 94 square miles before rain helped firefighters contain the flames. The Texas A&M Forest Service says the wildfire spread Thursday across Ochiltree (...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome, a deadly disease to hibernating bats, has been found for the first time in Texas, state researchers revealed Thursday. The fungus was detected in samples taken from three b...

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — A woman has pleaded guilty in connection with the deaths of two Oklahoma men who were found in a burning pickup in northern Colorado. The Greeley Tribune reports (https://goo.gl/PtUwMM ) 27-year-old Samantha Simmons pleaded g...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Officials in a Kansas City suburb where a fire destroyed a multimillion-dollar apartment building under construction and spread to about two dozen homes estimate the blaze caused as much as $23 million to $25 million in d...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — An affluent suburban Kansas City woman with a history of shoplifting has been ordered to spend a year and seven months in prison for the thefts. Forty-seven-year-old Kelli Jo Bauer of Overland Park, Kansas, also was ordered F...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators who have resisted proposals to legalize marijuana for medical use are advancing a proposal aimed at making the state an industrial hemp powerhouse. The state House gave first-round approval Friday on a voice v...

CENTERVIEW, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County is pulling its roughly 40 inmates out of another western Missouri county's jail where authorities say a riot left no injuries. Jackson County Executive Frank White Jr. said in a statement Friday that Jackson C...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A father has been charged with fatally shooting his 17-year-old son during an argument in Wichita. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2odgHZf ) reports that 41-year-old Glen Farrow is jailed in Sedgwick County on $150,000 bond. H...

GYP HILLS, Kan. (AP) — As his mud-covered pickup comes over a rise on a recent morning, mist blankets the horizon of Gyp Hills grass. Rancher Dave Johnson is out feeding his pregnant cows like he does several days a week during the winter. They f...

INMAN, Kan. (AP) — The 1980s are still seared in the minds of farmers: crushing debts, foreclosure auctions and the loss of generations-old family farms. Now, those bad old days may be staging a comeback in Kansas farm country. It's not just that w...

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Salinan Marty Rundall-Manion and her husband, Jack Manion, waited one year and five months for this moment. Emotions were running high as the two headed east on Interstate Highway 70, neither knowing what awaited them, just t...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The tumors and cysts that blinded Barbara Sales in her left eye and, years ago, lodged in her brain have robbed her of far more than her sight and memory. "I have photos of her face all bruised up because she got up in the mid...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican Gov. Eric Greitens will be visiting the U.S. Capitol this weekend to talk policy with federal officials, including President Donald Trump. A text Friday from Greitens' spokesman Parker Briden says the governor w...

DULUTH, Minn. (AP) — The University of Minnesota has ordered a review of how it handled allegations of sexual assault involving football players last fall. Board of Regents chairman Dean Johnson announced at the board's meeting in Duluth on Friday t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump greenlighted the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline on Friday, declaring it a "great day for American jobs" and siding with energy advocates over environmental groups in a heated debate over climate change. T...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — President Donald Trump may have approved a federal permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, but the fight is far from over in Nebraska, the one state in its path that has yet to approve the project. The pipeline's fate once again r...

President Donald Trump is calling his administration's approval of the Keystone XL pipeline a new era for American energy policy. As expected, the State Department reversed a decision by the Obama administration and favored energy development over en...

NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Cyprus said Friday it won't give up a search for oil and gas off its shores despite a call to stop by Turkey which warned that it would "take all necessary measures to protect its interests" in the eastern Mediterranean, as w...