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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A body found over the weekend near a creek in southeastern Oklahoma was that of a 73-year-old woman whose car was swept off a road during a heavy storm late last month, authorities said. Wilburton assistant Police Chief Jeremie G...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Officials at the Oklahoma City Zoo say a teenager has been charged with trespassing after he reportedly jumped into a zebra enclosure on a dare. Zoo spokeswoman Candice Rennels says the 16-year-old boy climbed two barriers and j...

HUNTER, Okla. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded a small earthquake in northern Oklahoma. The agency recorded a magnitude 3.6 quake at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday near Hunter, about 75 miles (120 kilometers) north-northwest of Oklahoma City. No i...

ANADARKO, Okla. (AP) — A former trucker from Arizona was sentenced to 12 years in an Oklahoma prison for killing a prostitute in 2014 and dumping her nude body along Interstate 40. The Oklahoman (http://bit.ly/2pYpUII ) reports that 40-year-old J...

DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) — Authorities have charged an Oklahoma man in connection with the death of a man whose body was found stuffed inside a trash can last month. Prosecutors charged James Jackson King on Monday with second-degree murder or, in the a...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The soldier imprisoned for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military documents to WikiLeaks released her first statement Tuesday since being granted clemency, saying she hopes to use lessons she's learned in p...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who lost a cellphone that contained child pornography has pleaded guilty to federal charges. Federal prosecutors say 51-year-old Anthony Quin Hodges, of Fulton, pleaded guilty Tuesday to using his phone to r...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A House committee on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow Kansas lawmakers to more closely oversee the state's privatized foster care system and the contractors that run it amid questions about how the state monitors the program...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — More than half of U.S. women of reproductive age live in states with unneeded restrictions on abortion facilities, according to an analysis released Tuesday by a research group that supports abortion rights. The report from G...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A measure that would allow Kansas municipalities to establish areas where alcohol can be consumed outside of bars and restaurants has moved closer to becoming law. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2qYh7Fg ) reports t...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas medical equipment supplier has agreed to pay $1 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims to Medicare for vacuum erection devices that are known informally as penis pumps. The U.S. attorney's o...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas couple has been sentenced to 28 years in prison in the abduction of a woman who was later killed. The U.S. attorney's office says 28-year-old Larry Anderson, of Manhattan, and his 26-year-old girlfriend, Marryssa M...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos reiterated her push for school choice during an annual education technology conference in Utah Tuesday, comparing the issue to being able to switch between phone service providers. She said t...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas Senate has approved a bill expanding the definition of hazing in civil and criminal cases. Laredo Democratic Sen. Judith Zaffirini's measure is designed to curb hazing at universities. It spells out as hazing those c...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House has approved a Senate bill meant to curb improper relationships between teachers and students. Lawmakers have expressed alarm at a problem that's become even more widely reported in recent years. Supporters of t...

BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — Eight more members of a Penn State University fraternity made their first court appearance Tuesday and were released on bail to await trial on charges stemming from the death of a pledge after an alcohol-fueled hazing r...