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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Clubgoers screamed and scrambled for cover as dozens of gunshots rang out during a rap concert in downtown Little Rock early Saturday, leaving 28 people injured from an 11-second melee that police said may be gang-related. T...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The summer air is sizzling as the Fourth of July approaches, yet 86-year-old Richard Perkins already worries about how he's going to stay warm this winter. President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating heating aid for low-inc...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials for the nuclear and electricity industries say there has been no apparent impact from a hacking campaign that has drawn the attention of federal officials. The assurances on Saturday came after federal officials told e...

GLADBROOK, Neb. (AP) — On the wide-open plains of central Nebraska, a little more than a mile north of the Logan County line along Avenue 70, Pam Schaeffer can go days without functional internet. On those days, her husband Rodney will walk around th...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Bright and early at Avery's Branch Farms in Amelia Court House, you'll find five of the six Alexander children herding Jersey cows to the barn and hooking them up to a pumping system. The milk flows to another building where i...

WACO, Texas (AP) — Baylor University deaf education lecturer Lewis Lummer comes from four generations of deafness, and he's leading an effort to offer a Christian school experience for deaf children. The Waco Tribune-Herald reports American Sign L...

STEELEVILLE, Ill. (AP) — David Knop is not scared of risk. That's why when he looked at the 14 acres behind is home in rural Steeleville he had no problem with planting organic blackberries in hopes for a harvest in the next two years. Knop, who c...

WILLIAMS, Ore. (AP) — Williams is known as one of Oregon's pot-growing capitals, but longtime residents have raised alarms over industrialized grows they say are ruining the character of this remote but close-knit rural community. "People are p...

MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) — Melinda Kramer knew her life was about to change after a flyer in a country western store caught her eye. Instead of a new pair of boots, Kramer brought home a brand new hobby, a sport known as "cowboy mounted shooting". Six y...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) So, your doctor told you that you need insulin therapy for your Type 2 diabetes. This is a common problem and likely...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) As members of Congress are heading back to their districts over Fourth of July break, the future of the Affordable Ca...

WHEATON, Ill. (AP) — Sheriff's deputies and a hospital's occupational therapists in a Chicago suburb have launched the first of what they hope will be a series of classes to prepare drivers with developmental disorders for traffic stops. The course h...

NEW YORK (AP) — Sexism in Silicon Valley may be coming in for a reckoning, prompted by women coming forward with stories of sexual harassment by industry bigshots. Apologies, resignations and self-reflection have followed, although it's too soon to t...

YUMA, Ariz. (AP) — A solar-powered drone backed by Facebook that could one day provide worldwide internet access has quietly completed a test flight in Arizona after an earlier attempt ended with a crash landing. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's l...

MOSCOW (AP) — The chief executive of Russia's Kaspersky Lab says he's ready to have his company's source code examined by U.S. government officials to help dispel long-lingering suspicions about his company's ties to the Kremlin. In an interview w...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Researchers trying to track bee activity to find areas where the bee population is declining could soon be using an acoustic system developed by a research team that includes scientists from Missouri universities. Scientists deve...

WASHINGTON (AP) — On the surface, the investigation was routine. Federal agents persuaded a judge to issue a warrant for a Microsoft email account they suspected was used for drug trafficking. But U.S.-based Microsoft kept the emails on a server i...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Mobile phones are everywhere. In fact, they may be nearly as common on the African savanna as they are on American...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An atheist group is raising questions about prayers at high school basketball games in Western Kansas, but school officials are defending their practices. The Wichita Eagle reports (http://bit.ly/2svMoDO ) the Freedom From R...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansans will see the bite from an income tax increase with their first paychecks this month and the state is advising business owners who legally can avoid the bill until next year to start paying up this fall. Legislators e...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma police officer who said he was trying to protect his daughter when he fatally shot her black boyfriend in 2014 is on trial for the third time in seven months, after jurors in previous trials couldn't decide w...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — The town of Newtown and its Board of Education asked a judge to throw out the wrongful death lawsuit filed by the parents of two children killed during the Sandy Hook shootings in December 2012. The lawsuit, filed in state S...

NEW YORK (AP) — The first Tesla Model 3 electric car for the masses should come off the assembly line on Friday with the first deliveries in late July, the company's CEO says. CEO Elon Musk, in several Twitter messages early Monday, says the new c...

CHICAGO (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered outside a federal courthouse Monday as the suspect in the kidnapping of a Chinese scholar at the University of Illinois made his first appearance since being arrested last week. During the nine-minute h...