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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Federal legalization of hemp arrived in the U.S. late last year and expanded an industry already booming because of the skyrocketing popularity of CBDs, a compound in hemp that many see as a health aid. But now, just a few m...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An Oklahoma-based energy company is seeking approval for a pipeline that would carry volatile gas liquids through the Kansas county that is home to Wichita. Williams Companies Inc. met with Sedgwick County officials Wednesday a...

CHICKASHA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a domestic dispute led to a fatal officer-involved shooting of a man in Grady County. The shooting occurred about 9:45 p.m. Wednesday at a residence in Chickasha, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) southwest of O...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the murder conviction and life without parole sentence of a private prison inmate in the death of his cellmate. The court on Thursday rejected appeals by 43-year-old Alex M...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — Every third Friday of the month, patrons of On After sports bar on Bragg Boulevard can find Chris Munson strumming a guitar, covering songs and singing his own music. Munson, a sergeant with the 82nd Airborne Division, balan...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs says the agency's federal funding request has been approved for a $60 million project to relocate a veterans center that's had staffing difficulties. Oklahoma Veterans Affairs E...

PAULS VALLEY, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma authorities say a large boulder fell from a truck and went through the windshield of a passing SUV, killing two women who were passengers in the smaller vehicle. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the deadly a...

ELMIRA, N.Y. (AP) — It appears an upstate New York man was not hungry when police say he stole a Little Debbie delivery truck. Police say 38-year-old Joseph Tocco of Elmira swiped the truck Monday from a loading dock. Police stopped it a short t...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — Presenting himself as both vindicated and vindictive, a fired-up President Donald Trump on Thursday turned the findings of the Russia investigation into a political weapon at a Michigan rally that was part victory lap, p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats intensified their demands for Robert Mueller's full report Thursday after learning the special counsel's findings from his Trump-Russia investigation run to more than 300 pages, while President Donald Trump boasted of t...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A member of the "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners won a reprieve Thursday night from execution for the fatal shooting of a suburban Dallas police officer after claiming his religious freedom would be violated if his s...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea says its president will travel to the United States to meet with President Donald Trump for a summit on North Korean nuclear diplomacy. South Korean President Moon Jae-in's office said Friday that Moon will v...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rallying in Michigan, President Donald Trump bragged Thursday night about a surging auto industry that isn't surging, a Republican rescue for health care that has yet to take shape, a "total" exoneration in the Russia i...

OKLAHOMA CITY (March 28, 2019) – Oklahoma Christian's new Ultimate team will hold its first scrimmage against opponents from colleges that you might have heard of. Teams from Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Tulsa – all of which compete in NCAA Div...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – Henderson State returned to action on Friday afternoon to open Great American Conference play and fell to nationally ranked Harding, 7-0. The Lady Bisons (11-3), who are ranked No. 23 in the latest ITA DII poll, swept the three d...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former University of Oklahoma student alleges he was touched and kissed inappropriately by former university President David Boren on several occasions almost a decade ago when the man worked as a teaching aide for the o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Edmond man has admitted to embezzling more than $755,000 from his employer and to tax fraud. Court documents show 74-year-old Odis Aubrey King admitted in a plea agreement on Thursday that he wrote more than 200 company c...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A University of Oklahoma professor is suing the university's governing board and top administrators, alleging she was demoted because of her outspoken criticism of new leadership at the institution. The lawsuit filed Thursday i...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A new grant program hopes to encourage businesses in Tulsa to invest in neon signage to light up Route 66, which could help bring tourism and other investment into the area, officials said. The city and the Route 66 Commission a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma zookeeper accused of trying to arrange the killing of a critic who ran an animal sanctuary talked about using a public stop on his gubernatorial campaign to create an alibi. That's according to a 47-minute r...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and Chief Operating Officer John Budd are asking for an audit of the finances of the state's Office of Management and Enterprise Services' Information Services Division. The audit request announced T...

Allegations of clergy sexual abuse have been substantiated against 28 priests or religious clergy in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salina in central Kansas in cases mostly stemming from the 1950s to the 1980s, according to investigations by church...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas running back Pooka Williams agreed to diversion terms for a misdemeanor domestic battery charge, though the Jayhawks' biggest offensive weapon remains suspended from the program. Court records filed Thursday show the agre...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A California man was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison for making bogus emergency calls to authorities across the U.S., including one that led police to fatally shoot a Kansas man following a dispute between two online playe...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A man whose conviction in two rape cases divided his small northeast Kansas town must have a new trial because of errors by the prosecutor and court in the original trial, the Kansas Court of Appeals ruled Friday. Jacob Ewing, 24,...