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TOPEKA, Kan. undefined A 28-year-old man has been fatally shot in east Topeka, police said. Officers were responding to a call Saturday night about shots being fired and a vehicle crash when they found the body of D'Angelo L. Payne, Lt. Ron Ekis...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been charged with capital murder in the shooting deaths of his girlfriend and her 8-year-old daughter. The suspect, Daniel Lopez, has not been arrested. Sedgwick County authorities charged him in the deaths of M...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Hector Chapa, Texas A&M University (THE CONVERSATION) With the coronavirus pandemic quickly spreading, U.S. health officials have...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska lawmakers who are seeking to lower property taxes won some extra time to make a deal with opponents last month when the coronavirus pandemic brought their session to a halt, but so far it doesn't appear that anyone is b...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Vanguard Soap was founded in 1943 at the height of World War II and was immediately part of the national wartime infrastructure. For only the second time in the company's history, it's being called on to maintain production, b...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. surgeon general offered some of the starkest warnings yet Sunday as he braced Americans for the worsening fallout from the new coronavirus, warning "this is going to be the hardest and the saddest week of most Americans' l...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden said Sunday that the Democratic National Convention, already delayed until August because of the coronavirus, may need to take place online as the pandemic continues to reshape the race for the White House. The party "...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A Concord High School student has been named New Hampshire's Poetry Out Loud winner this year. Sydney Kilgore has won the poetry recitation contest, the state council on the arts said. Adyant Shankar from Nashua South High S...

NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine (AP) — An organization of small woodland owners in Maine said it has received the largest land donation in its 45-year history. Maine Woodland Owners said it received more than 2,000 forest acres in New Gloucester from a f...

Josh Allert's days are a blur and a battle. His mental and physical stamina are constantly put to the test as the 22-year-old emergency medical technician transports coronavirus patients around New York. He is burdened by the push-and-pull between...

SPARTA, Ga. (AP) — A house built more than 200 years ago by a friend of President Andrew Jackson is on the market in eastern Georgia. But the nonprofit group selling the property in Hancock County requires that the buyer be willing to do repairs a...

BALTIMORE (AP) — Deion Broxton says he grew up in an area with a fair share of rodents. This week it was a mammal of a different size that brought him national exposure. As the East Baltimore native was filming a teaser on March 25 for his latest K...

SITUATION UPDATE: COVID-19 As of this April 5 advisory, there are 1,252 confirmed positive cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma. There are an additional four deaths: Three in Cleveland County, two males and a female older than 65. One in Seminole County, a...

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Resuming the NBA season with the start of the playoff is one option for the league. Most teams had about 15 games left to play in the regular-season schedules when play was halted on March 11, and not everyone had played the same amount of games. But...

America's first collector car auction company will begin selling vehicles through Ritchie Bros.' online platform Marketplace-E SCOTTSDALE, AZ, April 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ - As COVID-19 has resulted in the cancellation of many collector car auctions...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) — Four of five inmates who escaped a minimum-security prison in southeast Oklahoma were quickly recaptured while the fifth remained at large Monday, according to the Oklahoma Department of Corrections. Authorities were s...

PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — A Pittsburg man was arrested after he called authorities to say he had fatally shot his father, authorities said. Crawford County Sheriff Danny Smith said Michael Woodson, 29, called the department Sunday night to say he had s...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 6, 2020-- Room to Read, a global organization focused on children's literacy and girls' education, has released a library of celebrity read-aloud videos alongside hundreds of free digitized children's books,...

COVID-19 is a virus identified as the cause of an outbreak of respiratory illness first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China in 2019 and has since spread globally into a pandemic. Symptoms of COVID-19 include fever, cough, and shortness of... Full story

Government and health officials are scouring the state for supplies and to determine the number of hospital beds that might be available to respond to the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Laura Kelly said Monday. Kelly said the state's response to the... Full story

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Swerving in and out of traffic, Jimmy Mitchell made a mad dash to get to the Oklahoma state Capitol. After a quick stop at a department store for a change of clothes and a risque fitting in the parking lot, Mitchell walked i...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Richard Gunderman, Indiana University (THE CONVERSATION) He survived the last great plague in London and the city's Great Fire. He was...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Legislature on Monday granted sweeping new powers to the governor to respond to the coronavirus pandemic. The House and Senate met in special session and approved the resolution under the never-before-used Catastroph...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A Riley County commissioner who said in March that Manhattan, Kansas, wasn't at high risk for the coronavirus because it doesn't have many Chinese residents should resign because such comments promote racism and abuse against A...