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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback endorsed a flat-rate income tax plan Wednesday and lawmakers drafted a plan that would eventually boost aid to public schools by $750 million a year as they worked to fix deep budget problems. The c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas House approved a bill that would prohibit the state from awarding contracts to companies that are participating in any boycott of Israel. The House passed the measure Wednesday on a 116-9 vote. Similar policies in 17 st...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas woman who sold methamphetamine after being told to by a jail inmate has been sentenced to four years in prison. U.S. Attorney Tom Beall says in a news release that 21-year-old Kraysalias Lynn Bernhardt, of Clearwater, w...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A former University of Kansas theater student has filed a lawsuit alleging the school failed to investigate his sexual harassment claims against a professor. The former student alleges a professor invited him to his home for din...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas House committee has drafted a plan to phase in a $750 million increase in state aid to public schools over five years. A special panel on education funding agreed Wednesday to a proposal to pump $150 million more into s...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday ordered Kansas' top elections official to produce a plan on homeland security issues that he took to a meeting with President Donald Trump as potential evidence in a voting rights lawsuit. U.S. Magistr...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge says he is reluctantly granting the request from defense attorneys to withdraw from the case of a Kansas man accused of plotting to bomb an apartment complex filled with Somali immigrants. U.S. District Judge E...

WAKEENEY, Kan. (AP) — A 54-year-old Kansas man will serve at least 50 years in prison for sex crimes against children. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said David Tidball, of WaKeeny, was sentenced Tuesday to two consecutive life sentences w...

MANKATO, Kan. (AP) — A second earthquake has been reported this week in north central Kansas. The U.S. Geological Survey reports an earthquake measuring 2.7 magnitude was recorded Wednesday morning, centered about 9 miles southeast of Mankato. The H...

PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — An incoming high school principal has resigned in Kansas after student reporters investigated and raised questions about her credentials. The Pittsburg School Board accepted Amy Robertson's resignation on Tuesday, saying she f...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri girl who reported being raped by her boyfriend told a detective that her high school principal threatened them with in-school suspension to "get them to stop saying things about each other," according to police. R...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Several men painfully recalled being beaten and sexually abused at a north Florida reform school as the state began the steps to formally apologize for the horrors they endured more than 50 years ago. Bryant Middleton r...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada lawmakers are pressing forward with a package of bills they say will make homemade solar energy an affordable option once again for state residents. The standout proposal would increase the amount of money r...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Omaha Public Power District is getting assistance from Facebook to boost the share of its wind electricity. The utility doubled its wind-generating capacity in January, and now it's planning to add more to meet the social media...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — When a freight train derailed in the Montana town of Culbertson, spilling 27,000 gallons of crude oil, investigators blamed the 2015 accident on defective or missing fasteners used to hold the tracks in place. The previous y...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah's largest electricity provider has announced plans to build a wind turbine in Wyoming that would power more Utah homes by 2021. Rocky Mountain Power officials said Tuesday that they want to build a $3.5 billion wind g...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders prepared Wednesday to send lawmakers home for a two-week recess without voting on their troubled health care bill, as prospects for a quick deal among party factions moved farther out of reach. Meanwhile, p...

CHICAGO (AP) — Losing and regaining weight repeatedly may be dangerous for overweight heart patients, a study suggests. Heart attacks, strokes and death were more common in patients whose weight changed the most over four years. For some, weight c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The doctor nominated to head the powerful Food and Drug Administration told senators Wednesday that his first priority would be tackling the opioid crisis, and he pledged that science will prevail at the agency despite his extensive...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge says he plans to issue a preliminary injunction to block abortion-restricting rules in Missouri similar to ones in Texas that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down last year. U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs a...

NEW YORK (AP) — If you build it, they will stay. The small businesses that dominate the home remodeling industry are expecting robust growth in the next few years, thanks partly to baby boomers who want to remain in their homes. Home remodelers s...

NEW YORK (AP) — YouTube TV, Google's new streaming package of about 40 television channels, is the tech industry's latest bid to get cable-shunning millennials to pay for live TV over the internet. It offers intriguing advantages over rivals, but i...

BERLIN (AP) — Germany has launched a new military unit dedicated to thwarting cyberattacks and responding if necessary. Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said Wednesday the unit, which will be fully operational by 2021, will bring together i...

KAYSVILLE, Utah (AP) — A Utah school district agreed to pay $100,000 to the family of a teenage girl who was injured while wearing goggles to simulate drunkenness in a 2014 health class experiment. The Davis School District will put more than $...

NEWVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Police in Pennsylvania say they arrested a man wearing a Drunk Lives Matter shirt for drunken driving. Police say 44-year-old Elwood Gutshall III's blood-alcohol content was about two and a half times the state's legal limit f...