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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The major reasons the athletic director job at Kansas became available nearly two months ago are precisely the same reasons Jeff Long will be filling that seat beginning Aug. 1. He's shown a gift for raising money and r...

MOUNDRIDGE, Kan. (AP) — A woman charged in connection with the deaths of three people north of Wichita has pleaded guilty. Myrta Rangel entered her plea Monday to federal charges for her role in the October 2016 killings of Travis Street, Angela G...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Police say a small armory's worth of weapons and ammunition were stolen this week from a Topeka house. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported Thursday that the thefts included 80 firearms, including rifles, shotguns and handguns. T...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A former Crawford County deputy alleges in a lawsuit she was fired after the sheriff told her she was too old and too feeble to do the job. Mary Mays spent more than 20 years at the sheriff's office before she was fired l...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas City man has been charged in a shooting near a Kansas elementary school that killed one man and left another critically injured. The Kansas City Star reports that 32-year-old Anthony Grable was charged Thursday w...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Vietnamese woman who lived apart from her daughter for 18 years is celebrating receiving her U.S. citizenship in Nebraska. Tu Tran, 62, became a naturalized citizen last week, the Omaha World-Herald reported . She's the mother of...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — No government officials conducted a safety inspection of a new waterslide at Six Flags St. Louis before a woman said she suffered whiplash last month from the force of the "Typhoon Twister" that featured a five-story d...

BEIJING (AP) — China's says it is "forced to make a necessary counterattack" to a U.S. tariff hike on billions of dollars of Chinese goods but gave no immediate details of possible retaliation. The Commerce Ministry on Friday criticized Washington f...

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Associated Press has learned that the U.S. Army has moved in recent weeks to discharge immigrant recruits and reservists who enlisted through a program that promised them a path to citizenship. Some of these service members s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned Thursday amid ethics investigations of outsized security spending, first-class flights and a sweetheart condo lease. With Pruitt's departure, President Donald T...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross came in for an Oval Office tongue-lashing after he used a mundane soup can as a TV prop. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis got overruled by President Donald Trump's announcement that a new "Space Force" i...

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nomination is expected on Monday, with three federal judges leading the pack. Here's a look at who they are (plus three more who haven't been completely counted out just yet): AMY CONEY B...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — Cherokee Nation officials in Oklahoma say more than 180 patients affected by a tribal hospital nurse improperly reusing syringes have been notified they can receive free blood tests and that no one has tested positive for H...

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a Lawton man who police fatally shot emerged from his apartment holding two butcher knives and then charged the officers, cutting one. Police in Lawton released an incident report that identifies Millard Clark J...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Scott Pruitt's tenure as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency ended with his resignation, but political experts in his home state of Oklahoma say he could continue his career in public office. The path could lead h...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a woman has fatally shot her ex-boyfriend, who she said was breaking into her Tulsa home. Tulsa police said the man was shot early Friday morning. Cpl. Chris Butterfield says the woman called 911 to report the s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Bowing out after months of scandals, Scott Pruitt is turning the Environmental Protection Agency over to a far less flashy deputy who is expected to continue Pruitt's rule-cutting, business-friendly ways as steward of the c...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Though the summer heat can make staying at home on the couch sound inviting, getting out for some exercise is still important for long-term health. Hitting the local trails in and around Manhattan for a quick walk, run or h...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — No one likes an empty space. But throughout downtown Wichita, there are plenty of vacant spaces, unattractive to potential tenants for one reason or another. Maybe the spot doesn't have street frontage, maybe it's in need of s...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — For nearly two decades, Victoria Bruce has lived in a modest one-bedroom apartment at an affordable housing complex on Poplar Street in Olathe, close to friends and stores and not far from where she grew up. "This is home. It's s...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Protesters camping near an Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Wichita are demanding that the agency allow it to be inspected by a group of elected officials. Democratic state Sen Oletha Faust-Goudeau says i...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy's retirement is giving the Kansas governor's race an odd twist by complicating the bid of a major Democratic candidate who's trying to rebuild his party's brand with rural voters but i...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Overland Park police say a man shot by officers during a confrontation at an apartment complex has died. Spokesman John Lacy said 43-year-old Charles Webb died Friday after being shot earlier in the day. No police were i...

ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say some type of incendiary device damaged eight businesses in downtown Atchison. Fire Chief Ted Graf says no one was injured the incident early Friday. The St. Joseph News-Press reports investigators responding t...