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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Leaders of companies in Ohio and Missouri have pleaded guilty to illegally shipping 9 million pounds of hazardous waste from Mississippi to Missouri. Prosecutors say Raymond Williams and his company, U.S. Technology Corp., pleaded g...

Some business leaders are condemning the Trump administration's decision to separate children from parents who are accused of crossing the border illegally, but it's unclear what impact — if any — they will have. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sai...

Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile have pledged to stop providing information on U.S. phone owners' locations to data brokers, stepping back from a business practice that has drawn criticism for endangering privacy. The data has apparently allowed...

WACO, Texas (AP) — At her recent summer camp, Brooke Griffin, 11, learned how to create and design her own board game. "It's called School Escape," Griffin said. "The mission is to escape school." The Waco Tribune-Herald reports with school out f...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An argumentative computer proved formidable against two human debaters as IBM gave its first public demonstration of new artificial intelligence technology it's been working on for more than five years. The new skills show t...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new set of online tools is designed to help families and communities keep children safe in disasters. The Resilient Children/Resilient Communities Toolbox is an initiative led by the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at C...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Raytheon Co. employee from California who found a new way to get real-time readings from large laser radars now holds the nation's 10 millionth patent. The White House says President Donald Trump signed the patent Tuesday for J...

HONOLULU (AP) — The ongoing eruption of the Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is not causing crystals to rain from the sky despite reports of residents finding little green gems in the area. "Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Is Literally Raining Gemstones Now, A...

BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel took aim Tuesday at U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris accord, calling the move "very regrettable" at a time when the overwhelming majority of countries worldwide are trying...

WASHINGTON (AP) — You don't just feel the heat of global warming, you can see it in action all around. Some examples of where climate change's effects have been measured: —Glaciers across the globe are melting and retreating, with 279 billion ton...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal agency wants its wooly mammoth tusk back. The Bureau of Land Management in Alaska on Tuesday asked the public's help in recovering an approximately 10,000-year-old tusk stolen from the Campbell Creek Science C...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey has an official state reptile. The governor on Monday signed legislation designating the title to the bog turtle. Two years ago, Riverside Elementary School science teacher Mark Eastburn told his students that New J...

ADAMS, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say furry critters, not vandals, are likely to blame for American flags that disappeared from veterans' graves in Massachusetts. The flags at Bellevue Cemetery, in Adams, were first reported missing earlier this m...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a request to expedite arguments over whether Oklahoma's lawsuit against opioid manufacturers should go back to state court. U.S. District Judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange rejected the state's emergency r...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Lincoln Riley got a major raise a year ago based on potential. This one was based on results. Oklahoma will pay its football coach $25 million over the next five years, including $4.8 million this season. Oklahoma's Board of R...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former police officer from outside Oklahoma City has been arrested on allegations he kidnapped and abused a Florida woman he met online. The Tulsa World reports that James Otterbine was arrested June 12 on complaints of k...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma plans to build a $22 million softball stadium instead of renovating its current one. The school's Board of Regents approved a revised design plan Tuesday that will move the facility about a half mile south, rather t...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer has denied 21 requests for pardons and highlighted his decisions with a news conference focusing on a case involving a pregnant teenage girl's murder in 2006. Colyer announced his actions Tuesday during a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita school district's battle over state funding has surpassed $2 million in legal bills as it heads into another year. School board members unanimously voted Monday for a resolution continuing Wichita Public Schools' m...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — It all began on a whim. It ended with Jay Ellis and Stacy Ellis sheltering 12 homeless donkeys — and loving every minute of it. For the last year, the couple have operated a satellite branch of the Texas-based Peaceful Val...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County authorities say a man who died after being shot by a Wichita police officer in a "swatting" case had no drugs or alcohol in his system. The county's autopsy shows 28-year-old Andrew Finch died in December from a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County is planning to auction off land it owns at the Wichita Greyhound Park. No dog races have run at the park for more than 10 years and the county commission says it's time to sell because the land isn't being used a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer has denied pardons for 21 state inmates, including a man who helped kill a pregnant Wichita teenager 12 years ago. The Wichita Eagle reports 29-year-old Everett Gentry applied for clemency earlier this y...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Democratic Party is calling for its lone candidate for state attorney general to drop out of the race because of a poster in her law office showing the superhero Wonder Woman pulling a lasso around a police o...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A civil rights group filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach challenging a multi-state voter registration database it claims exposed sensitive information including partial Social Security n...