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NEW YORK (AP) — A portrait of an angry doctor seeking revenge on the medical professionals he believed turned their backs on him emerged Saturday as a New York hospital began to recover from his assault-weapon rampage that left one doctor dead, a...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis sacked the head of the Vatican office that handles sex abuse cases Saturday, just days after he released another top Vatican cardinal to return home to stand trial for alleged sexual assault. The developments u...

MOSCOW (AP) — Ukraine accused the Russian security services Saturday of planning and launching a massive cyberattack that locked up computers across the world. The Ukrainian security agency, known as the SBU, alleged in a statement that s...

CHICAGO (AP) — A man has been charged with kidnapping a visiting University of Illinois scholar from China who authorities believe to be dead after she disappeared three weeks ago. A federal criminal complaint alleges the suspect's phone was used t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has barged into Senate Republicans' delicate health care negotiations with a suggestion bound to muddle things: If you can't cut a deal on repealing the Obama-era law, then repeal it right away and then replac...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — If you keep a handgun in your backpack and the professor calls you to the front of the class to answer a question, take the backpack with you. If your weapon is holstered on you, make sure your shirt or jacket won't ride up and s...

DENVER (AP) — An energy company that owns a natural gas pipeline linked to a fatal home explosion in Colorado said more than 99 percent of the pipelines it tested afterward showed no sign of leaks. Anadarko Petroleum said late Friday the pipelines t...

PLAINFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Most roads have reopened in Plainfield after a train carrying crude oil derailed about 40 miles southwest of Chicago. Plainfield police say it will take several days to clean up an estimated 45,000 gallons of oil near Route 5...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahomans will spend more money on tickets to professional sporting events and the purchase of vehicles under two new laws that took effect Saturday. The laws hiking taxes on both of those purchases are among 61 pieces of l...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Federal officials say the Kansas City Zoo was not at fault when a chimp died. The U.S. Department of Agriculture inspected the zoo's chimpanzee program after a 31-year-old chimpanzee died June 21. The chimp, Bahati, died a...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials say the number of planted acres in New Mexico is up slightly from last year. Results of the annual agricultural survey were released Friday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The survey shows corn, w...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Central Missouri officials are funding a study to determine the need, feasibility and a possible location for a multi-modal port on the Missouri River. The $170,000 study is being funded by Callaway and Cole counties, J...

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND, Texas (AP) — Officials say 50 concrete pyramids have been sunk in the Gulf of Mexico off South Texas as part of an artificial reef to increase fish habitat. The project, backed by the group Friends of RGV Reef, involves marine s...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Drivers in Kansas now have more reasons to buckle up. Starting Saturday, the fine for driving without a seatbelt increased to $30 from $10. State lawmakers approved legislation in May to increase the fines for anyone 18 and o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — President Donald Trump is upset that all states aren't fully cooperating with his voting commission's request for detailed information about every voter in the United States. Some of the most populous ones, including C...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Some state lawmakers want Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to explain his claim that corruption exists at the Statehouse. Kobach said recently he is running for governor to end the "culture of corruption" in the L...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former Wichita truck driving school and its owner will pay $6,000 back to students after admitting to making false claims about its credentials. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said Friday that Wichita Truck D...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Following the deadliest month in Tulsa's modern history, Oklahoma's second largest city has recorded 45 homicides in the first six months of 2017. The Tulsa World reports (http://bit.ly/2tBFop9 ) the number of homicides in T...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Tax Commission says wind farms, manufacturers and data centers received about $106 million in property tax subsidies last year. The Oklahoman reports (http://bit.ly/2uaCfcM ) that's the most since the five-year p...

NEW YORK (AP) — A doctor who appears to have been the intended target of a former physician who started shooting at a New York hospital, killing one person and injuring six, said he has no idea why he would have been singled out. Dr. Kamran Ahmed t...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A rapper whose concert in Little Rock was the site of a shooting that left 28 people injured was arrested early Sunday on unrelated assault charges while outside an Alabama club where he was performing just 24 hours later, an...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is making a weekend push to get a Republican Senate bill to repeal and replace former President Barack Obama's health care law "across the finish line," Trump's top legislative aide said Sunday, maintaining t...

WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man was in custody Sunday for what a prosecutor called the "savage" and "senseless" death of a recent high school graduate shot in the head during a road-rage confrontation as the two tried to merge in a s...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Qatar likely faces a deadline this weekend to comply with a list of demands issued by Arab nations that have cut diplomatic ties to the energy-rich country, though its leaders already have dismissed the u...

CHICAGO (AP) — The 28-year-old Illinois man charged with kidnapping a Chinese scholar now believed to be dead was among a select few admitted to the University of Illinois' highly competitive physics graduate program in 2013. Brendt Allen C...