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HIGHLANDS RANCH, Colo. (AP) — Two students opened fire Tuesday inside a charter school in an affluent suburb of Denver not far from Columbine High School , killing a teenager, wounding eight and spreading minutes of terror before they were taken into...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A school security guard has been filmed grabbing and pulling a protester at a town hall event for Colorado's governor. KKTV reported Monday that the disturbance occurred as Democratic Gov. Jared Polis left the m...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A grand jury has indicted a 22-year-old man on murder and other charges in the shooting attack at a North Carolina university that left two students dead and four others wounded, a prosecutor's office announced Tuesday. The M...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — A campus spokeswoman says a student has been shot and wounded at Savannah State University in Georgia and a suspect is in custody. Savanah State spokeswoman Loretta Heyward said the student was taken to a local hospital T...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Nearly a year after a mass shooting at a Texas high school in which eight students and two substitute teachers were killed, lawmakers in the gun-friendly state are close to passing measures that they say would harden campuses b...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former student claims that William Jewell College didn't do enough to protect her against rape and provided insufficient health care and support after she reported being sexually assaulted by a football player. The Kansas C...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's government on Wednesday introduced an ambitious climate change bill that aims to make the nation mostly carbon neutral by 2050 while giving some leeway to farmers. However, some farming industry groups s...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal appeals court says U.S. land managers should have done more to consider the cumulative effects on water resources before approving a handful of oil and gas drilling permits in northwestern New Mexico. Tuesday's r...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S. government attorneys say the Trump administration plans to finish a new environmental review of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada even if a federal appeals court throws out a lawsuit that blocked the project. P...

BAGHDAD (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a lightning visit Tuesday to Baghdad aimed at showing support for the Iraqi government as the United States has been picking up intelligence that Iran is threatening American interests in the M...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — It's longer than two city buses, weighs more than a Boeing 747 fully loaded with passengers and can pull 16 Statues of Liberty over a mountain. The Big Boy No. 4014 steam locomotive rolled out of a Union Pacific restoration s...

Gasoline for that summer road trip will cost a bit more than experts in the federal government were expecting just a month ago. The government is also predicting higher prices for crude oil despite an increase in U.S. production. That's because globa...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Economy Department said Tuesday that U.S. consumers could pay 38% to 70% more for tomatoes after the U.S. Commerce Department announced it would re-impose anti-dumping duties on Mexican imports. The Mexican agency said the...

A driver was injured when he failed to see a washout in the road. Delton Joe Woods, 49, of Blackwell, was transported by Pond Creek EMS to Bass Hospital in Enid and later transferred by LIFE EMS to Baptist in Oklahoma City. He was admitted in stable...

Last week the Newsgram reported that The Kiowa News closed after 126 years in operation. Since that announcement the situation changed significantly. Kevin Noland and his wife, Ronda, are longtime owners of The Gyp Hill Premiere in Medicine Lodge...

Pregnancy-related deaths are rising in the United States and the main risk factor is being black, according to new reports that highlight racial disparities in care during and after childbirth. Black women, along with Native Americans and Alaska...

NEW YORK (AP) — The number of measles cases in New York City has reached 466 since the outbreak began in October. The city's health department said Tuesday that 43 new cases were recorded since it last reported figures in April. The new cases i...

BATESVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A juvenile detention facility synonymous with neglect and abuse is to be shuttered and the building transformed into a treatment center for sex trafficking survivors, officials said. White River Regional Juvenile Detention C...

LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — Officials say a steer in northeast Colorado has contracted rabies. The Loveland Reporter-Herald reports that Larimer County Department of Health and Environment announced it is the first confirmed case of rabies in a mammal o...

CONROE, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors say a 12-year-old Texas boy accused of fatally shooting his 10-year-old brother will undergo a mental health evaluation. The boy, who has been charged with murder, appeared in court Monday. He can't be tried as an a...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google announced new privacy tools Tuesday intended to give people more control over how they're being tracked on the go or in their own home, part of a broader effort by big tech companies to counter increasing s...