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MONTICELLO, Ark. – The No. 14-ranked Southern Arkansas softball team completed their season series against rival Arkansas-Monticello on Wednesday afternoon at Blossom Field, and SAU and UAM split the twin-bill in a pair of low-scoring affairs. W...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Remembering the Oklahoma City bombing has taken on a new meaning for Brian Martinez in the era of Donald Trump. His father, a pastor, was among the 168 people killed in the explosion at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on A...

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker held casual constituent meetings he describes as "community conversations" in Oklahoma to address questions and concerns about the Trump administration. U.S. Sen. James Lankford held the meetings T...

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — A southwest Oklahoma woman fatally shot a man who police say was trying to break into her home. Police say 37-year-old Rocky Stamper wasn't responsive when authorities arrived on the scene Tuesday morning in Lawton. He later d...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Seven inmates have been charged in a 2015 riot at a private prison in Oklahoma in which four prisoners were stabbed to death. Online court records indicate the charges were filed Monday in Payne County District Court. Each d...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma House has passed legislation to repeal the trigger that would lead to a cut in the state's individual income tax rate. The House approved the measure Wednesday on 75-12 vote and sent the bill to the state Senate f...

KIOWA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma police officer has been cleared in the fatal shooting of a man as the two fought following a traffic stop. The McAlester News-Capital reports (http://bit.ly/2orGL2p ) that Kiowa officer Fred Hart was found to be j...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The three largest universities in Kansas will be allowed to ban guns at large sporting events beginning in July. The Kansas Board of Regents' governance committee on Wednesday approved a request by the University of Kansas, K...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas regulators on Wednesday rejected the proposed sale of the state's largest electric company to a Missouri firm, concluding that the $12.2 billion price was too high and would leave the combined utility financially weaker t...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have charged a Kansas teenager who used bitcoin to buy a grenade on the dark web. A criminal information filed Wednesday charges Carlos Francisco Martin of Coffeyville with receiving an explosive meant to d...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' top elections official has asked a magistrate judge to stay his order requiring him to turn over proposed changes to voting rights laws that he took to a meeting with President Donald Trump. Kansas Secretary of State K...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The federal government is opening another investigation on how Kansas State University handles reports of off-campus sexual assaults. The Manhattan Mercury (http://bit.ly/2pBHaBr ) reports the U.S. Department of Education's O...

PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — Six Kansas high school journalists who published a story that led to the resignation of their school's new principal will be special guests at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The Pittsburg High School students and t...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Wichita, Kansas, say they're seeking three men suspected in a baseball bat attack on a homeless man. KAKE-TV (http://bit.ly/2oVwsHU ) reports that the 53-year-old victim reported that he was under a bridge near the c...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence will slash incentives to developers of an upscale hotel to settle a lawsuit that alleged fraud and racketeering. The Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/2oLzwGh ) reports that commissioners agreed Tuesday to the s...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The mayor of Nebraska's capital city has complained to Kansas officials about smoke from its agricultural burning that sometimes makes it unhealthy to breathe in some parts of Nebraska. The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health D...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas will use $291 million in internal government borrowing to avoid a deficit in its current budget and pay bills on time through June. Republican Gov. Sam Brownback signed the budget bill into law Tuesday. The measure a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday that it will decide an important case on the separation of church and state in favor of a Missouri church that wants state money to put a soft surface on its preschool playground. The case is b...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — The University of Wyoming is reviewing an encounter between students and a state senator over an academic project on guns that the students presented at a recent public forum. Two students say Republican Sen. Anthony Bouchard t...

HELSINKI (AP) — The trial of a 17-year-old Danish girl suspected of planning bomb attacks against two schools has begun near the Danish capital, Copenhagen. Police arrested the girl, who was 15 at the time, in January of last year. The girl, who w...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal court has killed a large wind energy project in southeast Oregon over concerns about a declining sage grouse population that needs the area to breed. The U.S. District Court in Portland vacated plans for the project T...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Exxon Mobil is seeking permission from the U.S. government for approval to resume drilling around the Black Sea with a Russian partner, state-owned Rosneft, according to a person familiar with the matter. The oil giant's request i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is once again seeking to scuttle cuts to pollution from coal-fired power plants. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court in Washington to postpone consideration of 2...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge said Wednesday that she will fine California $1,000 a day if state officials don't start providing swifter care for mentally ill inmates. U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller said she is fed up with the t...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A federal judge followed through on his promise Wednesday and blocked abortion-restricting rules in Missouri, saying he's bound by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and that the state is denying abortion rights "on a daily basis, i...