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The biopsy shows cancer, so you have to act fast, right? Not necessarily, if it's a prostate tumor. Men increasingly have choices if their cancer is found at an early stage, as most cases in the U.S. are. They can treat it right away or monitor with...

A treatment for a common childhood blood cancer could become the first gene therapy available in the U.S. A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted 10-0 on Wednesday in favor of the leukemia treatment developed by the University of...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's federal prisons are holding inmates in solitary confinement for long periods of time, sometimes years, in spite of mounting evidence that it can seriously hurt their mental health, a government watchdog said W...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A health care proposal from Senate conservatives would let insurers sell skimpy policies provided they also offer a comprehensive plan. It's being billed as pro-consumer, allowing freedom of choice and potential savings for many. B...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — While there's nothing you can do or take to ensure you won't get Alzheimer's disease, experts say there are some strategies that might help keep your brain sharp. And you don't need to dole out a lot of money to do it. "Does one...

HOUSTON (AP) — After Michael Covert submitted his resignation as CEO of the St. Luke's Health System in June, the initial announcement came not from his Houston bosses, but from the Colorado headquarters of its owner, Catholic Health Initiatives. T...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A man who fled federal custody more than 25 years ago couldn't escape new-age crime fighting, thanks to facial recognition technology. The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles said it nabbed 64-year-old Robert Frederick Nelson in J...

NEW YORK (AP) — AT&T has a surprise for tech firms and internet activists supporting net neutrality, the principle that bars internet service providers from playing favorites with websites and apps. Although AT&T has fiercely fought the Federal C...

NEW YORK (AP) — Visa is looking to push more small businesses into updating their digital payment technology, offering up to $10,000 each to 50 U.S.-based small business owners that are committed to going cashless. The program will focus on r...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A curious monkey with a toothy grin and a knack for pressing a camera button was back in the spotlight Wednesday as a federal appeals court heard arguments on whether an animal can hold a copyright to selfie photos. A 4...

SOCORRO, N.M. (AP) — Two New Mexico professors will be studying how hurricanes are formed under a $2.8 million grant. A New Mexico Tech news release says that the physics researchers have used the funds from the National Science Foundation to c...

CALDWELL, Idaho (AP) — A woman accused of stealing the placenta and umbilical cord after her daughter gave birth at an Idaho hospital in an attempt to conceal any possible drug use that could result in the baby being taken away is facing charges. R...

DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Authorities and relatives are at a loss to explain how the cremated remains of a Georgia woman mysteriously washed up on a Florida Beach. The Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday that a box containing the ashes of an A...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — If you want to live in a governor's mansion without being elected, North Dakota has a deal for you. With a catch. The state wants to preserve the 10,000-square-foot home that has served North Dakota's first families for 57 years...

LAKEVILLE, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man has gotten drivers to slow down for years with the help of a life-sized cutout of a police cruiser posted in his driveway. Kelly Tufts tells WFXT-TV (https://boston25.com/2uPzj5I ) he got the life-sized C...

BONNER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) — Five people were killed in a fiery six-vehicle wreck that temporarily closed a stretch of Interstate 70 on the western edge of the Kansas City metropolitan area, authorities said. The crash happened Tuesday afternoon w...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say an officer has shot and killed a suspect in northeast Kansas while investigating a vehicle theft. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation identified the man killed as 47-year-old Antonio Garcia Jr. of L...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Federal officials are no longer requiring Kansas to file bi-weekly reports on a large backlog of applicants for the state's privatized Medicaid program. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment was notified last week by t...

COLDWATER, Kan. (AP) — A western Kansas man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison in a fatal shooting. The Kansas attorney general's office said in a news release that the sentence was imposed Tuesday for 44-year-old Frank Domingo Asebedo, of C...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A 28-year-old man facing federal charges in a pipe bomb explosion outside a northeast Oklahoma Air Force recruiting center "turned to hate" after he couldn't complete the training required to become a certified electrician in t...

PONCA CITY, Okla. (AP) — A northern Oklahoma woman charged with using the internet to solicit the killing of her ex-husband in Israel has been released from federal detention but will remain on house arrest until trial. Danielle Layman, 37, of P...

SHERMAN, Texas (AP) — A Texas doctor wrote unnecessary prescriptions for powerful drugs that contributed to the overdose deaths of at least seven people over a four-year period, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday. Howard Gregg Diamo...

GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) — Police say an Oklahoma man and woman have been arrested after allegedly forcing an 11-year-old boy to smoke methamphetamine. The Oklahoman reports (http://bit.ly/2uRR8kD ) that police say 21-year-old Michael Andrew Crick and h...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City police say seven officers will be placed on paid leave after the fatal shooting of a man who reportedly opened fire on the officers. Officer Megan Morgan says the man died after being shot by police at about 2:30 a...

MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) — A report shows that a veterans health care system in Oklahoma has made significant improvements since the Department of Veterans Affairs investigated it in 2016. The report released Monday by the department's Office of I...