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BEAVER, Pa. (AP) — A health network that fell victim to a worldwide cyberattack was unable Wednesday to offer lab and diagnostic services at 14 community and neighborhood offices as it worked to restore its computer systems. Heritage Valley Health S...

TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) — A city in southwest Arkansas is creating a legal structure to accommodate medical marijuana entrepreneurs approved for state licenses. Texarkana has responded to about 70 to 80 inquiries about opening medical cannabis c...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Stacey English has modest desires for her 7-year-old daughter Addison: Be able to eat without gagging and move both her arms. But since Addison's occupational therapist went out of business this winter, the child with a rare g...

PARIS (AP) — The French government says it will follow the advice of an ethics panel in favor of allowing single women and lesbian couples to have children through assisted reproduction. Government spokesman Christophe Castaner added Wednesday t...

GREELEY, Colo. (AP) — Anne Green was just starting to enter the world of physical therapy when her sister was just starting to revive her career as a pianist. Once again, Green was inspired by her sister. Janet Ashley Spencer was a successful m...

PARIS (AP) — Companies and governments around the world on Wednesday counted the cost of a software epidemic that has disrupted ports, hospitals and banks. Logistics firm FedEx says deliveries by its TNT Express subsidiary have been "slowed" by t...

NEW YORK (AP) — Twice in the space of six weeks, the world has suffered major attacks of ransomware — malicious software that locks up photos and other files stored on your computer, then demands money to release them. It's clear that the world needs...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump attacked The Washington Post and Amazon on Twitter Wednesday, arguing that the online retailer was not paying "internet taxes." Trump stated on Twitter Wednesday: "The #AmazonWashingtonPost, sometimes referred...

NEW YORK (AP) — While hiking in the Himalayas for three weeks, Mike Scanlin had no cellphone service much of the time and no way to charge his phone. Running his business — a one-man operation — became a very sporadic proposition. It was a calculated...

KODIAK, Alaska (AP) — Archaeologists have discovered a prehistoric fish trap constructed of rock walls near the mouth of a salmon stream on Alaska's Kodiak Island. The trap is in a lower intertidal zone that's covered by ocean water at high tide a...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota scientist who leads an Environmental Protection Agency scientific advisory board says she was pressured by the agency's chief of staff to change her testimony before Congress to downplay the Trump administration's d...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Martin Ogando and his 91-year-old grandmother, Delia Giovanola, flip through a stack of photos until they reach an image of a man Ogando never saw in life: his father. The two share similar skin tone and blue eyes ...

STEEL CITY, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man who loved motorcycles and recently died is taking one last ride. Family members say 89-year-old Steel City resident Arthur Werner Sr. made plans way ahead of his death from cancer Sunday to be buried in t...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — A fisherman isn't telling fish tales when he says he fished a 45-year-old wallet out of a West Texas lake. The San Angelo Standard-Times reported that John Riley reeled in the wallet Thursday while fishing in Lake N...

NEW DELHI (AP) — Local officials are blocking a toilet-building charity's effort to rename a north Indian village after U.S. President Donald Trump, the group said Wednesday. District officials did not immediately return calls for comment, but w...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas Highway Patrol trooper has been indicted on a charge alleging that he used excessive force. Federal grand jurors in Topeka returned the indictment Wednesday in the case against 43-year-old James Carson, of I...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The baby sitter of a Wichita toddler whose body was found in a field has been ordered to serve 18 months of probation. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2siLhqN ) reports that Tyerria Miles was sentenced Wednesday for one count o...

HOLTON, Kan. (AP) — One of five women who allege they were sexually assaulted by a northeast Kansas man told jurors that she was attacked after a party at his home and that he hit her and pulled her hair before raping her. The woman testified T...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The state of Kansas says its divorce rate has dropped to the lowest levels since it began keeping yearly records in 1966. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2tjUqPI ) reports that the Kansas Department of Health and Environment s...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former University of Tulsa soccer player has been arrested on allegations he raped another student-athlete after escorting her from a party. The Tulsa World (http://bit.ly/2sRKewM ) reports that 20-year-old Lesley Nchanji was a...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man yelled "Freedom!" as he crashed his vehicle into Arkansas' new Ten Commandments monument early Wednesday, nearly three years after he was arrested in the destruction of Oklahoma's monument at its state Capitol, a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Republican candidate for Oklahoma governor filed a lawsuit Wednesday that asks the state Supreme Court to invalidate three revenue-raising measures passed by the 2017 Oklahoma Legislature that the lawsuit alleges are u...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's rural roads and bridges are among the worst in the nation, according to a new report from a national transportation group. TRIP researchers said 16 percent of Oklahoma's rural bridges are structurally deficient, The O...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma prisons are in such bad shape that the state has been fortunate to avoid a major prison riot, Department of Corrections Director Joe Allbaugh said Tuesday. The system is suffering from aging facilities, low staffing, s...