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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — After Utah passed the country's first law legalizing so-called free-range parenting, groups in states from New York to Texas are pushing for similar steps to bolster the idea that supporters say is an antidote for anxiety-plague...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's homeland security adviser Thomas Bossert resigned Tuesday in the latest White House shakeup. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement that Trump was "grateful for Tom's c...

LONDON (AP) — It will be friends and family, rather than politicians and world leaders, at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding next month. Kensington Palace says "it has been decided that an official list of political leaders — both U.K. and...

NEW YORK (AP) — Catt Sadler may have walked out on her job late last year after discovering she was paid far less than a colleague, but the former E! News host says she's found a better one — advocate. The former journalist is speaking out about the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded contracts for hurricane supplies without adequately researching whether winning bidders could deliver what they promised, according to a new investigation by Democrats on a Senate o...

TOKYO (AP) — Masazo Nonaka has enjoyed soaking in northern Japan's hot springs for many years — probably longer than most people. The supercentenarian, whose family has run a hot springs inn for four generations, was certified Tuesday as the wor...

A day before playing in the 2005 final at the All England Club, Venus Williams addressed a meeting of the Grand Slam Board, urging Wimbledon and the French Open to offer equal pay to male and female players. "I said: 'All of our hearts beat the same....

Government and other scientists are proposing a new way to define Alzheimer's disease — basing it on biological signs, such as brain changes, rather than memory loss and other symptoms of dementia that are used today. The move is aimed at improving r...

PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona teachers who have organized to push for big raises and a restoration of school funding are threatening a statewide walkout, following the lead of educators across the country, including Oklahoma where schools have been c...

PERRY, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma math teacher has been sentenced to five years' probation for not reporting child abuse by a teacher's aide. Jeffrey Sullins, 52, was sentenced Monday after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor count of failing to...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy is announcing plans to lay off 9 percent of its workforce, totaling about 300 of its approximately 3,400 employees. The company did not provide a definite date for the layoffs that were a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — One of the nation's top rating agencies is giving Oklahoma a "credit positive" report after the Legislature approved an estimated $523 million in tax increases. The report by Moody's Investor Services comes five months after i...

JAY, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma police say one man is dead and another is injured after a hostage situation occurred in a rural residence. Police fatally shot the man who held another man at gunpoint in a Delaware County residence Monday. Connie Manley i...

NEW YORK (AP) — Kansas and North Carolina State are the latest schools to be swept up in a bribery scandal involving college basketball. A rewritten federal indictment released Tuesday in New York alleges that an Adidas officials paid parents of a...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas could soon join a growing number of states nationwide in providing free college admission testing to high school students. A provision in the new school finance bill passed Sunday would set aside $2.8 million for one ACT te...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials have discovered an error in a public school funding bill lawmakers approved that lowers the size of its spending increase by at least $80 million, potentially complicating the state's efforts to satisfy a court m...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas could soon provide free college admission testing to its high school students. A provision in a school finance bill approved by legislators would set aside $2.8 million for one ACT test and three WorkKeys vocational a...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence police say a woman who fell at a restaurant bar has died. Sgt. Amy Rhoads says the 61-year-old woman from Leawood died on Sunday. She fell Friday night at Quinton's Bar Deli in downtown Lawrence. The Lawrence J...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a man has shot and killed his girlfriend's father at a suburban Kansas City home. The Kansas City Star reports that police took the suspected shooter into custody around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Overland P...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Five adults are facing possible poaching charges after a sheriff's deputy who stopped to help them saw blood dripping from their vehicle's trunk. The Douglas County sheriff's office says the deputy stopped Saturday night to h...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police say the husband of a 37-year-old woman whose body was found in a dumpster has been arrested in Iowa. Police Lt. Todd Ojile says the 30-year-old suspect was arrested Tuesday in Davenport, Iowa, after a state t...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A cold north Kansas wind blew as strong as they come on the day Vince Marshall and Marvin Richards dowsed for graves in Wichita's Highland Cemetery. Braided copper wires in their hands, the two men walked slowly across the c...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The father of a 5-year-old Wichita boy who's been missing for nearly two months is planning to hire a private investigator. KAKE-TV reports Jonathan Hernandez, father of Lucas Hernandez, has set up an online fund to raise m...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Twitter handle associated with a man who's in jail on accusations that he made a hoax emergency call that led to the fatal police shooting of an unarmed man in Kansas was used to again threaten to swat someone after a...

LINDWOOD, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas man is charged in the death of a woman who was reported missing last week. Leavenworth County Attorney Todd Thompson says 63-year-old Dan Flannagan was charged Friday with second-degree murder in the death o...