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STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — A warm winter and spring have let Mississippi farmers get soybeans into the ground early, and they expect to exceed last year's planting. About 69 percent of the crop had been planted by the end of April and 74 percent by M...

LONDON (AP) — An unprecedented "ransomware" cyberattack that has already hit tens of thousands of victims in 150 countries could wreak greater havoc as more malicious variations appear and people return to their desks Monday and power up computers a...

An online extortion attack that authorities say swept 150 countries this weekend is part of a growing problem of "ransomware" scams, in which people find themselves locked out of their files and presented with a demand to pay hackers to restore...

NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence is all around us, whether it's to recommend movies you might like or weed out unsavory videos. Smaller companies such as Conversica are joining the likes of Google and Facebook in pursuing AI. Conversica s...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Ben Lieberman just wanted to find out what may have caused the head-on collision that killed his 19-year-old son, Evan, on a highway north of New York City. It took a lawsuit and six months in court to get the cellphone records s...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal mediator is expected to hear arguments next month over a grievance stemming from a fray between administrators at Hutchinson Community College and student journalists and their suspended professor. The dispute r...

HOUSTON (AP) — Any Houstonian who's ever stalled out in a rush-hour gully washer, swatted mosquitoes on a humid summer afternoon or hauled soggy carpet to the curb after a neighborhood flash flood will be forgiven for thinking the supply of water i...

NEOSHO RAPIDS, Kan. (AP) — The sheriff in east-central Kansas' Lyon County says that while it may take months to identify a human skull and other remains found last month near Neosho Rapids, he believes the remains are those of an older adult man. S...

BURLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — A fired eastern Kansas sheriff's deputy has been ordered to stand trial on sexual misconduct charges involving a teenager. KVOE reports that 28-year-old Matthew Vander Linden last week was ordered to be tried on a Coffey C...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — He has been off the air for 50 years, and deceased since 1970, but Mister Ed still has a faithful following. TV's most famous talking horse didn't do autographs, but plenty of memorabilia immortalizes Mister Ed and the show t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Dressed in a royal blue head scarf and an elegant dress of the same color, Wafaa Aldoori stood out in the crowd at an Oklahoma City coffee house. However, the food that she served — a dish of long-grain rice and vermicelli sti...

RED ROCK, Okla. (AP) — Two small earthquakes recorded in Oklahoma by the U.S. Geological Survey bring to a dozen the number of temblors recorded in the state during the weekend. A 2.9 magnitude quake was recorded at 2:24 a.m. Sunday near Red Rock i...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The state of Oklahoma will pay $175,000 to a man wrongly convicted of rape more than 30 years ago. The Oklahoman reported Sunday (http://bit.ly/2rfq3WV ) that a judge approved the settlement of the claim filed by 57-year-old T...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Dressed in a royal blue head scarf and an elegant dress of the same color, Wafaa Aldoori stood out in the crowd at an Oklahoma City coffee house. However, the food that she served — a dish of long-grain rice and vermicelli sti...

MONTICELLO — The University of Arkansas at Monticello baseball team looks to take on the number one seed Emporia State in the first match-up of the NCAA Central Regional, Thursday, May 18, in Emporia, Kansas at Glennen Field at Trusler Sports C...

ARKADELPHIA, Ark. — The University of Arkansas at Monticello baseball team defeated Henderson State in the GAC Championship game Sunday afternoon by a final score of 6-1. This contest was a rematch of the Great American Conference title game a y...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas lawmakers have given final approval to a measure cracking down on inappropriate relationships between teachers and students, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott. The bill requires principals and superintendents to report i...

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Four men facing the most serious charges in a brutal fraternity hazing ritual that resulted in the 2013 death of a New York City college student pleaded guilty Monday to voluntary manslaughter. Fraternity members at Pi D...

HOUSTON (AP) — Hector and Itza Ayala sat in a conference room at Houston's prestigious high school for the performing arts, clutching a document they hoped would force administrators to investigate their 15-year-old daughter's claim of a classroom s...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — TransCanada Corp. is reassessing whether oil producers in North Dakota and Montana are still interested in shipping crude through its long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline now that they have other new options to ship their p...

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) — Worries about the environmental impact of maintaining a lawn, from keeping the turf green and healthy to the fumes and noise created when it needs to be cut, have caused some people to wonder whether there is sense in h...