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TULSA, Okla. (AP) — One minute, he's talking on the phone from Los Angeles. Then, there's a strange noise in the background. This interview is going to end prematurely. "Uh, I'm going to have to get off the phone, we've just been rear-ended," says T...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An 80-year-old Oklahoma man suspected of sexually abusing children he was appointed to help has been arrested in Florida. Osceola County jail records indicate Gabriel Joseph Lievano was arrested Tuesday on a fugitive warrant f...

OKMULGEE, Okla. (AP) — Health officials in Oklahoma says the state has its first confirmed case of measles in the past 12 months. The Oklahoma State Department of Health says the case was confirmed in Okmulgee County. The department says the p...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Two people are charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a man whose body was found inside a vehicle taken from his home. KAKE-TV reports 25-year-old Royce Thomas and 24-year-old Micaela Spencer, both of W...

HAYS, Kan. (AP) — A Hays man who spent his mother's money on himself while serving as her power of attorney has agreed to pay nearly $40,000 in restitution to her estate. The Kansas attorney general's office said in a news release that 43-year-old M...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Earlier this school year during an American history class at Lincoln College Preparatory Academy, veteran teacher Deborah Etterling fielded a concern from a student unlike any other she had encountered in her 32 years at t...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Chellie Doonan hopes that working in the garden during the coming weeks while going through treatment at DCCCA First Step at Lake View, a residential drug treatment facility in Lawrence, will bring her peace of mind. "I can g...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — For the last several months, WIBW-TV has been covering the story of Isaiah Ramirez, the boy who needed a diabetic alert dog. In mid-February a local couple donated the full $5,000 cost to make that dream a reality. The two f...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Laura Kelly's administration is canceling two no-bid contracts valued at more than $110 million that were negotiated by Kansas Revenue Department officials from previous administrations. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — An autopsy report says a Topeka motorist who was fatally shot by a Kansas Highway Patrol trooper in November was under the influence of methamphetamine. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Shawnee County District Coroner R...

RAYTOWN, Mo. (AP) — A Jackson County sheriff's deputy whose vehicle collided with a motorist after running a red light during a chase has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge. Deputy Sean Stoff was charged with misdemeanor careless and imprudent d...

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — An appeals court says the University of Kentucky failed to follow open-records law in a dispute with the campus newspaper over its pursuit of documents in a sexual harassment investigation. A three-judge Court of Appeals p...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A retired Springfield teacher has been found not guilty of sexually abusing a child. A jury on Thursday acquitted 74-year-old Danny Carroll of two counts of first-degree child molestation. Carroll worked more than 30 years i...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A year after a high school mass shooting near Houston that remains one of the deadliest in U.S. history, Texas lawmakers are on the brink of going home without passing any new gun restrictions, or even tougher firearm storage l...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A former New Mexico teacher convicted of sexually abusing two fourth-grade girls more than a decade ago has been sentenced to 108 years in prison. The Albuquerque Journal reports Gary Gregor was sentenced Thursday in a S...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) As the nation celebrates the 65th anniversary of the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, the case is often rec...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Schools trying to protect kids from mass shootings are turning to gunshot detection systems, cellphone apps and artificial intelligence — a high-tech approach designed to reduce the number of victims. Technology that speeds up law...

BAGHDAD (AP) — When U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sat down with Iraqi officials in Baghdad last week as tensions mounted between America and Iran, he delivered a nuanced message: If you're not going to stand with us, stand aside. The m...

NEW YORK (AP) — A rare mix of geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and China is tugging oil prices in opposite directions and creating uncertainty over where they might land. Deteriorating trade talks between the United States and China, the w...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An investigation into the cause of the largest-known release of methane in the U.S. faults a California utility for the way it maintained its natural gas storage field before the massive 2015 blowout. The report released Friday b...

A federal judge will let a jury decide whether conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' Infowars website had a legal right to sell a poster featuring the image of Pepe the Frog, a cartoon character that became hijacked by far-right extremists. U.S. District...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Natural gas and coal proponents say emails exchanged among environmentalists and a key member of New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's cabinet represent a conflict of interest as the state was creating landmark l...

SALEM, Ore. (AP) — The gray wolf is on track for a remarkable comeback after being almost exterminated in the contiguous United States, but a Trump administration proposal to take the iconic symbol of the wild off the endangered species list has e...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's Republican-led House on Friday passed sweeping legislation designed to survive court challenges, which would ban abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy. If enacted, the ban would be among the most restrictive i...