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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Officials say the estimated impact of agricultural flood damage in Arkansas due to recent severe weather is about $175 million. The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture says the April flooding affected m...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The annual winter wheat harvest has begun in southwest Oklahoma, but this year's cutting has seen a mixed start. The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/2pWTZFs ) reports that high humidity Tuesday prevented growers from getting mature w...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree is among a trio of lawmakers that wants to more than double funding for a key U.S. Department of Agriculture organic research program. Pingree, a Democrat, is working with Rep. Dan Newhouse, a W...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — State health officials say mosquitoes capable of transmitting the Zika virus have been found in Dona Ana County. The New Mexico Department of Health says it's the first time this season that the mosquito species has been f...

U.S. health agencies on Wednesday warned that certain blood tests for lead poisoning may give results lower than the actual level of lead. As a result, some children under 6, along with pregnant and nursing women, may need retesting, the Food and...

The HPV vaccine that helps prevent cervical cancer in women also might lower the risk in young men of oral infections that can cause mouth and throat cancers, a new study finds. These cancers are rising fast, especially in men, and research suggests...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google's computer programs are gaining a better understanding of the world, and now it wants them to handle more of the decision-making for the billions of people who use its services. CEO Sundar Pichai and other top e...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — In a pen surrounded by 8-foot-high fences, at a research station by the side of a winding canyon road in southeast Wyoming, stand seven elk that are going to die. The creatures don't look sick yet. Their caramel-colored fur s...

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. (AP) — A former judge who offered a law enforcement officer beer and money to retrieve his wife's text messages has been sentenced to probation. U.S. Attorney John Stuart Bruce said former Superior Court Judge Arnold Ogden J...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch passengers on KLM flights might have recognized the co-pilot's voice when he introduced himself on the airline's Cityhopper services. It was not just their co-pilot telling them weather conditions and estimated t...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil's top judicial oversight board has decided it won't sanction a judge who allegedly got angry at a bakery cafe waiter and demanded the man address him as "Your Honor." Witnesses say Judge Dilermando Motta Pereira was upset b...

BIG PINE KEY, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a Louisiana woman living illegally in a vacant home in Florida answered the door naked when a sheriff's deputy stopped by to investigate. Monroe County Sheriff's spokeswoman Becky Herrin says a real estate a...

ROUND ROCK, Texas (AP) — A Texas man is suing a woman he went on a date with for the price of a movie ticket after he says she texted through the film and left him at the theater. Brandon Vezmar filed the claim for $17.31 last week. The 3...

ELK CITY, Okla. (AP) — Residents of an Oklahoma subdivision and a Wisconsin trailer park that were leveled by deadly tornadoes sifted through what remained of their homes and possessions Wednesday, even as forecasters warned of another round of p...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators sorted through proposals Wednesday for raising new revenue to fix the state budget and wrestled with how much they need to increase spending on public schools to meet a court mandate. The state faces p...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Army Pvt. Chelsea Manning, spared by presidential clemency from the rest of a 35-year prison term for giving classified materials to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, stepped out of a military lockup Wednesday and into a f...

CHETEK, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on the deadly storms in the central U.S. (all times local): 6 p.m. One western Oklahoma resident says he was lucky when a tornado struck his subdivision near a golf course. Matt Bynum said Wednesday that most of the r...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge expanded an investigation Wednesday into prison recordings of attorney-client conversations to focus on the government's conduct in the wake of the destruction of "critical evidence" on a computer — despite an...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Legislature's top Democrats are proposing that the state phase in a $600 million increase in spending on public schools over three years. Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley of Topeka and House Minority Leader Jim W...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Several witnesses asked the Kansas Prisoner Review Board to keep a man called the Wichita Holiday Inn sniper in prison. During a hearing Wednesday, no one spoke in favor of paroling 59-year-old Michael Soles, who killed t...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The babysitter of a Wichita child whose body was found in a field last year has pleaded guilty to interfering with a police investigation. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2pW7PrA ) reports that 26-year-old Tyerria Miles p...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Riley County authorities say the number of rapes reported in Manhattan and surrounding areas has doubled during the first quarter of this year compared with the same time last year. The Manhattan Mercury reports (...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The remains of a priest who was killed during an Oklahoma mission in Guatemala more than three decades ago have been exhumed as part of the Roman Catholic Church's beatification process. The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/2pXk1YV ) rep...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Jurors began deliberating Wednesday in the manslaughter trial of a white Oklahoma police officer who fatally shot an unarmed black man last year. The jury will decide whether Tulsa officer Betty Jo Shelby went too far Sept. 16 whe...

CUSHING, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Corrections says five prison guards were injured when they were attacked by inmates at the Cimarron Correctional Facility in northern Oklahoma. DOC spokesman Mark Myers says several inmates attacked a...