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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma county sheriff will not face a manslaughter charge in the death of an inmate who was left in a restraint chair for more than two days. The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals on Thursday rejected special prosecutor C...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City's Historic Preservation Commission is moving forward with a process that could designate an iconic egg-shaped church as a historic landmark. The Oklahoman reports that commissioners Wednesday instructed city s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A twin-engine jet that crashed on the northwestern edge of Oklahoma City and killed the two pilots on board rolled upside down before crashing. A preliminary report released Thursday by the National Transportation Safety Board s...

PAWHUSKA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities in northeastern Oklahoma say a father was fatally shot after he shot and killed his son at a home north of Pawhuska. Osage County Sheriff Eddie Virden says the father and son were apparently arguing when the f...

ELK CITY, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say three people, including a child, were found dead following a mobile home fire in western Oklahoma. Elk City Police Chief Eddie Holland said firefighters found two adults and a child dead inside the home after p...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' Republican-led Legislature gave its final approval Thursday to a public school funding increase that the state's Democratic governor is pushing as the way to end a protracted education funding lawsuit, although it r...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Chris Beard of Texas Tech had a cheering, boisterous audience as he took stage Thursday to accept the trophy as The Associated Press men's college basketball coach of the year — his players and family filling the front row to celeb...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A blanket ban on signs and restrictive permits for protests at the Kansas Statehouse constitute "an unnecessary and impermissible prior restraint on political expression at the core of First Amendment expression," according to a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 20-year-old Wichita man has been sentenced to life in prison for the shooting death of a man during a marijuana deal. KAKE-TV reports Mark Holley III was convicted in January of first-degree murder and six other charges in t...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police say a detective was charged with misdemeanor battery after an incident with a co-worker. Police spokesman Charley Davidson said in a news release Thursday that Rick Craig was placed on unpaid leave until i...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A congressman is chastising the University of Kansas for offering a course titled "Angry White Male Studies." Kansas Republican Rep. Ron Estes was among those turning to social media, lamenting in a tweet that the university h...

College tuition was less than what today's students pay for textbooks when Caron and Jack Knopoff attended Chicago's Wright Junior College in the mid-1960s. Tuition at what is now Wilbur Wright College was $24 per credit hour, Caron Knopoff says. To...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A California business owner says store surveillance video recorded a man stealing a small chain saw by stuffing it down his pants. Jeff Bennett of RG Equipment tells the Fresno Bee his security camera caught the theft W...

CHICAGO (AP) — Jussie Smollett has refused to pay more than $130,000 to reimburse Chicago investigative costs and the city said Thursday it will sue the "Empire" actor for money spent investigating what officials say was a phony racist, anti-gay a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General William Barr on Thursday defended his handling of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation, saying the confidential document contains sensitive grand jury material that prevented it f...

CINCINNATI (AP) — A young man's claim to be an Illinois boy who disappeared under tragic circumstances eight years ago was disproved by DNA tests and pronounced a hoax Thursday, dashing hopes that the baffling case had finally been solved. For a d...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — CBD oil-infused gummy bears, lattes and other food, drinks and dietary supplements are selling quickly even though the U.S. government says they're illegal and local authorities have forced some retailers to pull products. The c...

SEVERNY KLEVER MILITARY BASE, Russia (AP) — Missile launchers ply icy roads and air defense systems point menacingly into the sky at this Arctic military outpost, a key vantage point for Russia to project its power over the resource-rich polar r...

PARIS (AP) — Two key American officials — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen — are skipping meetings in France this week as the Group of Seven countries gather to try to find solutions to world secur...

LONDON (AP) — It might just be enough to kill your buzz: A new study challenges the idea that a drink or two a day could actually be good for you. In a study conducted in China, the researchers found that moderate drinking slightly raised the risk o...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Thursday repealed rules that banned baptisms for children of gay parents and that labeled same-sex couples as sinners eligible for expulsion — marking a reversal of pol...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Abandoning his threat to immediately seal the southern border, President Donald Trump warned instead on Thursday that he'd slap tariffs on cars coming to the U.S. from Mexico unless the Mexicans do more to stop the flow of m...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rejecting a plank of President Donald Trump's foreign policy, the House on Thursday invoked never-before-used powers to demand that his administration withdraw support from the Saudi-led war in Yemen . The Senate passed the same res...

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ADA, OKLA. – East Central University baseball senior Alec Lemmon earned a complete-game shutout victory to help the Tigers (5-31, 5-17 GAC) to a split with Ouachita Baptist in day one of the Great American Conference series. ECU first fell 3-1 in 10...