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FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — It's no joke — Tupac Shakur lives in Kentucky and needs unemployment benefits to pay his bills. The Lexington man's name was brought up by Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday night as he spoke about how the state is trying to pro...

A nasty virus that originated in China has caused havoc across the globe with a pandemic. Known as the Coronavirus, COVID-19, the threatening virus has closed down the U.S. Economy and way of life as Americans know it as people have stayed-at-home...

Starting Monday, May 4, Kiowa's City Office will be open from 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday....

Nearly 25 visitors attended the Burlington Public School Board of Education meeting the evening of April 20. Board President Terry Graham called the meeting to order with all but one member present including: Robert Hill, April Kisling and Aaron Smit...

OKLAHOMA CITY – Last week, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections began testing all discharging inmates for COVID-19 prior to their release, using tests provided by the Oklahoma State Department of Health. One of the inmates from William S. Key C...

Happy Anniversary To April 30: Mr. & Mrs. Dale Sample May 3: Mr. & Mrs. Jim London May 5: Mr. & Mrs. Larry Powers May 12: Mr. & Mrs. Loran Morris, Mr. & Mrs. Chad Grimes May 15; Mr. & Mrs. Lewis Darr, Mr. & Mrs. Ron Bliss, Mr. & Mrs. Devin Ferguson...

Happy Birthday To April 30: Christopher Melkus, Vaughn Rader, Darla Harper May 3: Ethan Murray, Melissa Headlee, Roxann Bliss May 4: McKinzie Kirkpatrick, Bill Savely, Lonn Luddington May 5: Denis Carlson, Becky Morris May 6: Traci Schwerdtfeger,...

According to the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH), Woods County still has three confirmed cases of COVID-19. In surrounding counties, Major County has three, while Alfalfa, Harper and Woodward counties have one each. Garfield County has... Full story

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma health officials reported seven new COVID-19-related deaths in the state on Wednesday, bringing the statewide death toll to 214. Three of the deaths occurred in the last 24 hours, while the others died between April 1... Full story

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican state leaders in Oklahoma and Utah are facing scrutiny for spending millions of dollars combined to purchase malaria drugs promoted by President Trump to treat COVID-19 patients that many other states obtained for f...

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Worried relatives are demanding that Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly release some inmates to allow better social distancing to control the spread of the coronavirus in prisons, the corrections department said Wednesday, as an outbreak a...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State athletic director Gene Taylor, football coach Chris Klieman and basketball coach Bruce Weber have agreed to salary reductions along with every athletic department employee making more than $100,000 annually. T...

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court panel ruled Wednesday that Kansas can't require voters to show proof of citizenship when they register, dealing a blow to efforts by Republicans in several states who have pursued restrictive v...

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's largest city will reopen with significant restrictions next week, as jurisdictions in the state's two urban areas begin to move away from stay-at-home orders that sought to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Kansas C...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Longtime Wichita radio host and Wichita State University basketball announcer Don Hall died early Wednesday morning in a crash at a busy Wichita intersection, and police arrested another driver involved in the crash Hall's e...

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — Authorities in suburban Kansas City say a Clay County Jail deputy has been placed on leave after being accused of sexually assaulting a man being held on charges in the jail. The inmate was taken to a hospital Saturday after a...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A teen charged in the 2018 Kentucky school shooting that killed two students has pleaded guilty to murder. Gabriel Ross Parker was 15 when he fired a handgun into a crowd of students before classes started at Marshall County H...

NEW YORK (AP) — With a barrel of crude oil costing less than a New York pizza, many U.S. shale producers are being pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and experts are wondering when, and if, the oil industry will recover. The price of benchmark U.S. cr...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Big meatpacking companies that have struggled to keep plants running during the coronavirus crisis said Wednesday that they welcomed President Donald Trump's executive order requiring them to stay open, but unions, some e...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Two uncooperative coronavirus patients have been ordered by a New Mexico court to self-isolate. Department of Health spokesman David Morgan declined to identify the targets of the orders or why they were imposed, the Santa Fe N...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida's restaurants and retail stores will be allowed to reopen Monday at 25% capacity, if the local government allows it, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Wednesday, as the state begins the slow climb from the economic abyss ca...

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan announced Wednesday that a coronavirus testing site would be opened at Perdue Stadium on the state's Eastern Shore in response to outbreaks at poultry processing plants. The testing site will be o...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) After weeks of sleepless nights spent scrutinizing grainy images relayed from our remote cameras, mostly of waving...

The world's economic pain was on full display Thursday as Europe and the United States were releasing more figures showing the devastating impact on jobs and companies of lockdown measures designed to battle the coronavirus pandemic. In Europe,...