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WASHINGTON (AP) — New details emerged on the rift between White House chief of staff John Kelly and President Donald Trump, with one former administration official saying Kelly privately called Trump "an idiot" last year. Kelly's insult to the p...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government will take another 30 days to decide whether to impose tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada and Mexico, extending a period of uncertainty for businesses in those regions. The d...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australian Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis, arrived Wednesday for an appearance in a Melbourne court where he will eventually stand trial on s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An anti-tax group filed paperwork on Tuesday seeking a public vote on whether to overturn a package of tax increases approved by the Legislature this year to pay for teacher pay raises and fund public schools. The group O...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Attorney General's Office has accused the former executive director of the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System of filing false travel reimbursement claims. Oklahoma County court records indicate charges w...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The chairman of the Oklahoma Ethics Commission is accusing lawmakers of retaliating against the agency by illegally cutting its budget. Chairman John C. Hawkins sent an email to state senators and House members Sunday, saying h...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Some educators are at odds over two Oklahoma Education Association leaders' actions during the statewide teacher walkout and have conflicting statements regarding the impeachment effort against those executives. The Tulsa W...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Geologists are blaming a spate of small Kansas earthquakes on an underground pressure wave that is slowly creeping northward from the Oklahoma border region. The Wichita Eagle reports there were 13 earthquakes that originated i...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A business conditions index for nine Midwest and Plains states surged last month to its highest level in a dozen years, according to a report released Tuesday. The Mid-America Business Conditions Index hit 64.5 in April, compared w...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The National Weather Service is warning of strong storms and possibly tornadoes in the southern Plains. The weather service says potentially severe storms are expected to develop by Wednesday afternoon and continue through the n...

The Institute for Supply Management, formerly the Purchasing Management Association, began formally surveying its membership in 1931 to gauge business conditions. The Creighton Economic Forecasting Group uses the same methodology as the national...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An investigator has testified that the younger of two brothers accused of fatally stabbing their parents and three siblings in their Oklahoma home denied killing anyone. The Tulsa World reports that crime scene investigator K...

VINITA, Okla. (AP) — The attorney for a man accused in the 1999 deaths of an Oklahoma couple and the disappearance of two 16-year-old girls wants the mother of one of the teens to turn over notes from her own private investigation. Attorney G...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators have approved a bill that would provide greater access to law enforcement officers' body camera footage and information about foster children who die in state custody. The Senate approved the measure u...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers have dropped an effort to force Secretary of State Kris Kobach to personally pay the costs of being held in contempt of court. The Kansas House last week approved a rule that would have prohibited statewide e...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A retired Kansas Highway Patrol trooper has been convicted of lying to the FBI during an investigation into illegal gambling in Wichita. The U.S. attorney's office said in a news release that a federal jury found 53-year-old M...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A western Missouri county is paying a $150,000 settlement to the family of a man who died after being restrained in a chair at a detention center. Jackson County approved the wrongful death settlement Monday, the Kansas C...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators are moving to ban taxpayer-funded settlements of sexual harassment claims against state officials and block non-disclosure agreements in harassment cases. House and Senate negotiators have agreed to include a p...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Legislators in the state that made saloon-smasher Carrie Nation famous have approved a bill to allow self-serve beer taps and longer hours for bars and taverns. The Kansas House approved the measure Tuesday on a 94-28 vote. The S...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Board of Regents has released documents outlining terms of a salary agreement with the University of Kansas' former chancellor, who is earning the same salary after stepping down to another position. The Lawrence Jour...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita city officials are planning to put a damper on residents who want to use large or illegal fireworks this Fourth of July. The city council voted Tuesday to toughen the city's ordinance banning big fireworks. The Wichita E...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are including an anti-abortion clause in a bill to expand health coverage through telemedicine. The House and Senate have both passed the bill despite concerns over a clause saying the law will be nullified if a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police are looking for a man and woman suspected of shooting a loss prevention officer at a Menards store in northwest Wichita. The 34-year-old prevention officer was shot Monday after he saw the two suspects walk out of the s...

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) — More than a dozen students at a Liberty middle school are out of classes because they have not been vaccinated for measles. The district's says only 13 out of 791 students at South Valley Middle School didn't get the m...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man serving a life sentence in the 2000 strangulation death of his ex-wife wants DNA evidence retested. The Hutchinson News reports that a Reno County judge will take up Trevor Corbett's request Friday. A U...