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DYER, Ark. (AP) — Free to the right charity: mansion built for religious cult leader and his wife, whose embalmed body was kept inside the house for months while he waited for her to rise from the dead. Needs work. The two-story, 1...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Ten years after a mentally ill student fatally shot 32 people at Virginia Tech, survivors and families of the slain are returning to campus to honor the lives that were lost that day. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A woman who sued the University of California and the former dean of UC Berkeley's law school for sexual harassment is outraged that the school is allowing him to keep his tenured professorship, she announced Saturday. "...

VALRICO, Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay-area authorities say a 16-year-old and his mother face charges in the fatal shooting of a high school basketball player. The Tampa Bay Times reports (http://bit.ly/2pD64zF ) new details about the Jan. 1 death of 1...

MARION, Iowa (AP) — The teacher of an eastern Iowa classroom where a 15-year-old volunteer sexually abused kindergartners now faces charges. Cedar Rapids television station KCRG reports (http://bit.ly/2pjaAGW ) that Diane Graham has been charged w...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico's most populous city has plans to install more than $25 million in solar panels on city buildings over the next two years. The installations in Albuquerque will mark the first phase in fulfilling a recently set g...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Environmental groups say they estimate tens of thousands of homeowners would be affected by a North Carolina proposal to protect hog and poultry operations from lawsuits to stop intense animal waste smells. Environmental W...

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — University of Florida researchers say they've found more beetles that can carry a disease threatening avocado trees. The redbay ambrosia beetle considered the main carrier of laurel wilt is rare in avocado groves. But in a n...

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — As rain pounded down on the roof of Rising Silo Brewery Monday night, people began to trickle in for some of its agriculture-themed beers. One of the more popular drinks on tap was the Carrot Ginger Saison, made from carrots p...

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Power chords have never been more powerful than when they're blasting out of Joel Suzuki's guitar in waves of glowing color. Joel is a typical teenager in many ways. He feels awkward around girls. He loves rocking out on h...

PARIS (AP) — Up-to-date Microsoft customers are safe from the purported National Security Agency spying tools dumped online, the software company said Saturday, tamping down fears that the digital arsenal was poised to wreak havoc across the i...

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (AP) — County commissioners in southern New Mexico are in debate over a federal project that aims to determine whether nuclear waste can be stored far underground. The Otero County Commission discussed a proposed resolution in o...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Josh Jackson declared for the NBA draft on Monday after one of the best freshman seasons in Kansas history, one marked by plenty of highlights on the floor and a few distractions off it. The 6-foot-8 swingman, who is c...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A state tax credit that helped propel Oklahoma to third in the nation in its capacity to generate electricity from wind is coming to an end, but it will be years before state coffers see results of the change. Gov. Mary Fallin o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A comprehensive study of the United States withdrawal policy shows that Oklahoma's Constitutional Reserve Fund meets adequate and best-practice levels. The study conducted by The Pew Charitable Trusts focused on the formal p...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Members of the Oklahoma House of Representatives have honored late state Rep. David Brumbaugh. Brumbaugh was a Republican from Broken Arrow who died Saturday at age 56. A cause of death has not been released. On Monday, a f...

TALIHINA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma Veterans Affairs hospital has placed a 90-day hold on admission referrals to an already struggling veterans center. The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/2pqPUNp ) reports that this is the second instance in less than six m...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Texas woman has been awarded $760,000 after she was badly injured in a skydiving accident in Oklahoma. Mackenzie Wethington was 16 in January 2014 when her parachute malfunctioned and she fell more than 3,000 feet to the g...

"Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI" (Doubleday), by David Grann The FBI burnished its reputation by gunning down Depression-era gangster John Dillinger and bringing to justice the kidnapper of Charles Lindbergh's...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Police in Tulsa say a man who was handcuffed and escaped from Tulsa County deputies is back in custody. Police say 31-year-old Michael Payne was found and arrested Sunday after escaping deputies late Saturday night. Police say P...

MCALESTER, Okla. (AP) — A local veteran is uprooting traditional farming methods in favor of pursuing aquaponics agriculture. Daniel Wilson retired from the Army after nearly eight years of service and moved back to the family farm in Stuart. Upon a...

CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) — Kimberly Politte cast the first stone and started a colorful rockslide. Politte created the Facebook group 918 Rocks! People in the group post photos of painted rocks they are hiding or have found in spots all over the 918 a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered Kansas' top elections official to turn over a proposed changes to federal voting rights laws that he took to a meeting with President Donald Trump. After privately examining the documents, U.S. M...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Rainfall in central and eastern Kansas is greening pastures and helping winter wheat, but is delaying corn planting. Most western counties remain dry. That is the latest assessment Monday from The National Agricultural S...