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Native American nations say the Supreme Court's rejection of a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act has reaffirmed their power to withstand threats from state governments. They say the case conservative groups raised on behalf of four Native...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas' power grid operator asked residents Tuesday to voluntarily cut back on electricity due to anticipated record demand on the system as a heat wave kept large swaths of the state and southern U.S. in triple-digit t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials have agreed not to enforce a new restriction on medication abortions for at least five weeks before a state court judge decides whether to put it on hold until he decides a lawsuit challenging it and other e...

ATLANTA (AP) — The owner of an auto repair shop who paid a former employee with 91,500 oily pennies has been ordered by a judge to pay nearly 4 million more cents. A federal judge ruled that Miles Walker, who owns A OK Walker Autoworks in P...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida sheriff's deputy and a motorist are lucky to be alive after they were sucked into a flooded storm drain during a torrential downpour, then dragged underwater for around 30 seconds before emerging — soaked but unh...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A federal judge struck down Arkansas' first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for children as unconstitutional Tuesday, the first ruling to overturn such a prohibition as a growing number of Republican-led states ado...

In a race against the clock on the high seas, an expanding international armada of ships and airplanes searched Tuesday for a submersible that vanished in the North Atlantic while taking five people down to the wreck of the Titanic. U.S. Coast Guard...

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According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be...

Tuesday, June 13, 2023 During this day were three traffic stops. 11:18 a.m. – Caller needs a snake removed in the 100 block of Grand. 8:50 p.m. – Caller asked if an officer could check in the 300 block of Kansas for a suspicious person. Caller adv...

Real Estate Transfers Book 148 page 527: Connie S. Boggs and John L. Boggs; Michael Boggs and Amanda Boggs; and Brittany Jones convey unto Michael Boggs and Brittany Jones. Lots 5 through 8 in Block 21 in the City of Sharon. Joint tenancy quit claim...

The following people filed for school board and municipal positions in Barber County Kansas by the June 1 deadline. A spokesperson at the Barber County Clerks Office said there is no need for a primary. The voters will determine the winners in the...

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“What little wheat that's been brought in is decent, but there's not a lot of it,” Kevin Pingelton, assistant manager of the Alva Farmer's Cooperative said. “Sadly enough, that is it for now.” For the first time in many area farmers' lives (in the Ne...

At the regular monthly June meeting of Kiowa's City Council, they discussed selling three city-owned properties. Those properties are: the old hospital that was demolished and the lot totally cleaned-up at 810 Drumm; two vacant properties by...

Richard Earl Davis Jr. was born on June 5, 1936, in Fairbury, Nebraska. He passed away on May 12, 2023, in hospice care at St Francis Hospital, Wichita, Kansas. A memorial graveside service will be held at 2 p.m., Thursday, June 29, 2023, at...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former southern Kansas sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a man with a defective beanbag has been stripped of his peace officer certification. Virgil Brewer, a former Barber County deputy, was found not guilty of i...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Kansas man is facing federal charges of making threats on social media to build bombs and carry out a mass shooting at a Nashville Pride festival. According to U.S. Attorney Henry C. Leventis' office, the indictment u...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon was sued Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission for allegedly engaging in a yearslong effort to enroll consumers without consent into Amazon Prime and making it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions. In a c...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff was defiant Wednesday as the Republican-led House prepared to censure him over his comments made several years ago during investigations into President Donald Trump's ties to Russia. He said he will w...