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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A city in Kansas has received $107,000 from a family's insurance company after a 5-year-old boy accidentally knocked over a sculpture at a community center. Overland Park spokesman Sean Reilly says the city plans to send $...

WELLINGTON, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a man and woman in southeast Kansas as a murder-suicide. Sheriff's Capt. Mike Westmoreland says 27-year-old Carrie Ensminger, of Emporia, and 36-year-old Toby Farley, of W...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court says Kansas prison officials aren't deliberately indifferent to a transgender inmate who says her medical treatment is so poor it violates her constitutional rights. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of A...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a former Kansas certified public accountant has pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns. U.S. Attorney Stephen McCallister said 70-year-old Robert Purinton, of Fountain Hills, Arizona, was s...

HAYSVILLE, Kan. (AP) — Staff members are trying to find a way to keep one of Kansas State University's research centers open after the school announced it would close the center south of Wichita. Kansas State said last month that it planned to c...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A judge on Monday dismissed the federal government's claim that U.S. law trumps two California laws intended to protect immigrants who are in the country illegally, affirming his ruling last week that California was w...

WASHINGTON (AP) — After days of frenzied lobbying and speculation, President Donald Trump decided on federal appeals Judge Brett Kavanaugh for his second nominee to the Supreme Court, setting up a ferocious confirmation battle with Democrats as he s...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Faced with chants of "no justice, no peace" and a blaring recording of "Fight the Power," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell abandoned his dinner at Kentucky restaurant. The Courier Journal reports the protesters Sunday o...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A quarter of the world's children — about 535 million — are living in a country affected by conflict or disaster, the head of the U.N. children's agency said Monday. Henrietta Fore told a Security Council meeting on child...

NEW YORK (AP) — IHOP has come clean. The pancake chain has acknowledged that a name change announced last month was just a publicity stunt to promote its hamburger menu. The company best known for its breakfasts already had burgers on the menu but h...

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By , Associated Press DENVER (AP) — An illegal campfire likely ignited another destructive blaze in Colorado, an outcome authorities were trying to avoid across the hot, dry U.S. West by enforcing strict fire rules and closing some public lands. S...

LONDON (AP) — The Latest on Brexit (all times local): 9:00 p.m. British Prime Minister Theresa May has named Jeremy Hunt to the job of foreign secretary after the resignation of Boris Johnson. Hunt, who had been the health secretary, is considered on...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The next Supreme Court justice will join the bench at a time when the public has more confidence in the high court than in Congress or the presidency. A Gallup survey in June found 37 percent of Americans have a great deal or q...

LONGWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a SWAT officer shot and wounded the owner of a Florida bar during a standoff. The Orlando Sentinel reports that Connolly's Irish Pub owner Leonard Nolan was injured Monday afternoon. Longwood police say o...

SEATTLE (AP) — Snohomish County Health District officials have confirmed a case of measles in a child who visited the U.S. in June for a summer program. KING-TV reports that child visited nine public places in King and Snohomish Counties between J...

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