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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma health officials say they are restoring funding for mandated child abuse prevention programs. The state Department of Health says it will restore $2 million for contracts for the Office of Child Abuse Prevention for t...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A 17-year-old in Tulsa will soon learn whether his defense can use state funds to hire mental health experts ahead of a jury trial in a teacher's death and other crimes. The Tulsa World reports that Deonte Green's defense team a...

MINNEOLA, Kan. (AP) — Fire officials have asked residents near a biofuels plant in western Kansas to evacuate their homes as they fight a fire at the plant. Ford County Fire Lt. James Warnke said the fire at the EGE plant was contained to the p...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita organization wants to help offset some costs to encourage more people to move to the area for jobs. The Wichita Community Foundation announced its partnership Monday with WSU Tech to create Wichita Promise MOVE. The p...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas woman who beat her fiance's 2-year-old daughter to death has been sentenced to nearly 27 years in prison. Lindsey Thomasson of Gardner was sentenced Tuesday to 26 years and eight months in prison for the death of 2...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man convicted of trying to sexually exploit two teenage girls has skipped his sentencing hearing and remains missing. Daelin Williams was convicted earlier this year of two counts of attempted sexual exploitation of a...

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A 6-mile stretch of Interstate 70 in eastern Kansas closed for nearly six hours and workers picked up a semi-trailer load of potatoes. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the potatoes were dumped Tuesday morning in Saline County n...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A celebration of life for a 5-year-old Wichita boy whose body was found months after he disappeared will be open to the public. The family of Lucas Hernandez said Monday the memorial service will be June 30 at 1 p.m. at W...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been arrested after slapping a mounted police horse during a Wichita festival. The Wichita Eagle reports that the 36-year-old man was been booked into jail on suspicion of battery of a police animal. P...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say three men have broken into a Wichita bingo hall and used a truck to pull out an ATM. The Wichita Eagle reports that the theft happened early Monday at the Bingo Casino. Wichita police Officer Charley Davidson s...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have identified the victims of two weekend homicides in Wichita. Police say 68-year-old Leroy Hudson, of Wichita, was fatally stabbed Friday night after stopping his truck in a street. A 53-year-old man who is s...

PARKVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a suburban Kansas City man opened fire during a weekend family gathering, killing his newlywed mother, her husband and the gunman's ex-wife, before turning the gun on himself. Platte County Sheriff Mark Owen h...

CHICAGO (AP) — With frustration mounting over lawmakers' inaction on gun control, the American Medical Association on Tuesday pressed for a ban on assault weapons and came out against arming teachers as a way to fight what it calls a public health c...

SINGAPORE (AP) — President Donald Trump wrapped up his five-hour nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un with surprisingly warm words and hope for "a bright new future" for Kim's isolated and impoverished nation. Yet he immediately f...

KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine (AP) — George H.W. Bush enjoyed a relaxing birthday on Tuesday as he became the first former U.S. president to turn 94. The nation's 41st president was receiving calls and taking it easy at his seaside home eight days after b...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece and Macedonia reached an historic agreement Tuesday to end a bitter 27-year name dispute that had kept the smaller and younger country out of international institutions such as NATO, the two countries' prime ministers ann...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge approved the $85 billion mega-merger of AT&T and Time Warner on Tuesday, a move that could usher in a wave of media consolidation while shaping how much consumers pay for streaming TV and movies. U.S. District Judge...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's abrupt announcement Tuesday that he will suspend U.S. military drills in South Korea appeared to catch the Pentagon and the Seoul government flat-footed, and it contradicted a pillar of Defense Secretary J...

NEW YORK (AP) — Fueled by a surging stock market and huge gifts from billionaires, charitable giving in the United States in 2017 topped the $400 billion mark for the first time, according to the latest comprehensive report on Americans' giving p...

DENVER (AP) — Extreme fire danger prompted officials to shut down a sprawling forest that includes some of Colorado's most stunning mountains in a region that attracts tourists from around the world, a rare tactic also being used in neighboring s...

LAKEVIEW, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan couple has 14 boys and no regrets, regardless of what online opinion-givers have to say about it. "There are some really mean people in the world. And it doesn't matter," said Jay Schwandt, the father of the boy b...