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MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Two Kansas City, Missouri, police officers face assault charges for allegedly slamming a transgender woman's face into a concrete sidewalk during an arrest that was captured on video. A grand jury indicted Matthew Brummett, 3...

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston police officer shot and killed a man who had fatally stabbed a woman in a store parking lot Saturday and was threatening the officer with a knife, police say. It was the fifth fatal shooting by a Houston police officer w...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) Public schools have faced three distinct challenges since the...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Three more people have died in Oklahoma after contracting the coronavirus, bringing the state's death toll to 288, state health officials reported on Saturday. Another 151 Oklahomans have tested positive for the virus as the tota...

With two children of their own, FC Dallas defender Ryan Hollingshead and his wife, Taylor, wanted to add to their young family in a way that would align with a desire to help others. Guided by that faith, last year the couple went through the...

DENVER (AP) — After a couple days of hard hiking last fall, Tim Brass thought it was time to track down a motor. He was bowhunting in a trophy unit near Creede, and plenty of other hunters were using a motorized trail for swift access. His friend o...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Supreme Court on Friday blocked a lower-court order that had allowed residents to vote by mail if they cite concerns about catching the coronavirus at polling places. Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton p...

BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. government has imposed new restrictions on Chinese tech giant Huawei's ability to use American technology, stepping up a conflict with Beijing over industry development and security. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said F...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats demanded on Saturday that the White House hand over all records related to President Donald Trump's latest firing of a federal watchdog, this time at the State Department, and they suggested Secretary of State Mike P...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — China is going after the United States over more than $1 billion that the Trump administration owes the United Nations in unpaid dues for its regular operating budget and arrears for the separate budget for the U.N.'s f...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A state program that was created to process unemployment applications in Arkansas for self-employed individuals or gig economy workers appears to have been illegally accessed and has been shut down, officials announced Saturd...

ALBANY, N.H. (AP) — A Lyman man is safe after getting lost while hiking and spending the night outside. The 62-year-old man had planned to hike a 12.5-mile loop on the Downes Brook Trail and Albany on Thursday, New Hampshire Fish and Game said. H...

FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) — A California farm animal sanctuary is spending thousands of dollars to send two cargo planes to Iowa to rescue 1,000 chickens that were going to be euthanized at a struggling egg farm. Workers affiliated with the sanctuary A...

In a social media post Saturday, Alva City Councilman Daniel Winters voiced concerns about actions revealed by the annual City of Alva audit report. The FY 2018-2019 audit is on the city council’s agenda for the regular meeting Monday, May 18, at 6...

The Alva City Council will tackle several important and possibly controversial issues during their regular meeting Monday night. The 6:30 p.m. meeting has been moved to the Alva Recreation Complex, 1887 Goldbug Blvd., to allow for social distancing....

DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on NASCAR's return at Darlington Raceway (all times local): ___ 1 p.m. Kevin Nobles wasn't going to miss a race at Darlington Raceway. It didn't matter that he couldn't get near the track. Nobles was part of a f...

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline rose a nickel over the past three weeks, to $1.97 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey says Sunday that the slight jump comes after prices at t...

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — FedEx has confirmed that workers from its facility in the Kansas City suburb of Olathe have tested positive for COVID-19. A spokesperson from FedEx Ground said in a statement Friday that it was working cooperatively with c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Topeka are investigating the death of a 20-year-old man at an apartment complex. Police were called Saturday evening to apartments on Southwest Plaza Drive and found 20-year-old Keaton B. Knutsen deceased. The cause o...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' education commissioner is cautiously optimistic that the state's 500,000 public school students will be back in their classrooms when the fall semester begins. Commissioner Randy Watson concedes it's difficult to p...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Three more people have died in Oklahoma after contracting the coronavirus, bringing the state's death toll to 288, state health officials reported on Saturday. Another 151 Oklahomans have tested positive for the virus as the tota...

Christine Gale Reynolds worked at the public library in Yosemite National Park before it closed in March when California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued shutdown orders to slow the spread of the coronavirus. So, she filled the back of her car with donated...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The body of a 32-year-old Topeka man who tried to rescue a dog has been recovered from Mission Creek in western Shawnee County. The Shawnee County Sheriff's office on Saturday recovered the body of Cody L. Campbell. Authorities w...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The big oak tree on 31st Street waves in the wind like a giant feather duster. Its trunk is solid and bare of branches halfway to the sky. It seemed like the perfect tree. And so last week, Kerri and Nate Denell and their four ki...

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis says he expects to see many K-12 public schools open this fall in his state and elsewhere despite the coronavirus threat, though "it's not going to look like any other school year." Polis told "Fox News S...