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Bradley Ralph of Wann, Oklahoma, made sure the Sutherland Rodeo was a stop on his long list of rodeos he’s participating in this summer. He first made a visit to Sutherland three years ago, and this year, he finally got to make a return. “They added...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Overall collections to the Oklahoma treasury continue to set record highs fueled largely by an influx of federal funding over the past year, State Treasurer Randy McDaniel said Wednesday. Overall treasury receipts for June and t...

EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe's office announced Wednesday that he requested $4 million in federal funds to help combat illegal Oklahoma marijuana growing operations. Inhofe's chief of staff, Luke Holland, announced the request during a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A lawsuit seeking to remove one of the state's three Corporation Commissioners alleges that his being on the board violates the Oklahoma Constitution due to a business conflict of interest. The suit, filed by former Republican st...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Roger Cornish, a news anchor at KWCH-TV in Wichita for several decades, died Wednesday, the station reported. He was 66. The station said Cornish died of liver disease. He was a news anchor at the Wichita station from the 1...

AMERICUS, Kan. (AP) — A civil rights group is threatening to sue a Kansas school district if it doesn't train employees about LGBTQ rights in response to an eighth-grade student being suspended from riding a school bus after saying, "I'm a l...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man fleeing officers is accused of causing a crash in Wichita that killed a pregnant 22-year-old woman, forcing doctors to perform an emergency delivery and leaving the baby in critical condition, police said. The incident happ...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. government has agreed to pay nearly $7 million to settle claims from eight veterans that they were sexually abused by a former physician assistant at a Veterans Affairs hospital in Kansas. The veterans, who served i...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Authorities say they've been searching for a 12-foot python that escaped from its enclosure inside Louisiana's largest shopping mall. Cara, a yellow and white Burmese python, slithered out of its enclosure at the Blue Zoo i...

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Emergency workers gave up Wednesday on any hope of finding survivors in a collapsed Florida condo building, telling sobbing families that there was "no chance of life" in the rubble as crews shifted their efforts to recovering m...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — The biographical blurbs about competitors in the Scripps National Spelling Bee include a litany of other interests, from sports to musical instruments to science competitions to Indian classical dance. Scripps' m...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — When the University of North Carolina first declined to vote on granting tenure to journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, kicking off a protracted battle marked by allegations of racism and conservative backlash over her work e...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has filed suit against three of the country's biggest tech companies, claiming he and other conservatives have been wrongfully censored. But legal experts say the suits are likely doomed to fail, g...

New York held a ticker-tape parade Wednesday for the health care workers and others who helped the city pull through the darkest days of COVID-19, while authorities in Missouri struggled to beat back a surge blamed on the fast-spreading delta...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The assassination of President Jovenel Moïse seemed to have thrown an already turbulent nation into chaos on Wednesday, with a muddled line of succession. Here is a look at the situation: WHO WAS THE ASSASSINATED PR...

The FBI is taking the unusual step of ordering a new look at the autopsy of Black motorist Ronald Greene to consider evidence not provided after his 2019 death, including graphic body camera video of Louisiana state troopers stunning, punching and...