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PORT JEFFERSON, N.Y. (AP) — A dog that saw a baby deer in danger of drowning in New York jumped in and dragged it to shore. The daring rescue in Long Island Sound was caught on video by his owner Mark Freeley. He tells WCBS-TV (ht...

SYDNEY (AP) — Half a world from where an Australian woman was shot dead by a Minneapolis police officer, Tuesday's front-page headline in her hometown Sydney newspaper summarized Australia's reaction in blunt terms: "AMERICAN NIGHTMARE." In J...

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Additional environmental review of the disputed Dakota Access oil pipeline is likely to take the rest of the year to complete, U.S. officials said in court documents in which they also advocate for keeping the line operating d...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Facebook's plans for New Mexico now call for a half-billion-dollar investment and a data center that will span an area equal to 17 football fields. Gov. Susana Martinez's office announced early Tuesday that the social m...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is pushing for increased exports of natural gas and other energy sources as it seeks U.S. "energy dominance" in the global market, Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Tuesday. He and President Donald Trump h...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The "Raging Grannies" have lost their case in federal court in Spokane. That's the nickname of a group of people who filed a lawsuit seeking to stop coal and oil trains from moving through Spokane. A federal judge dismissed t...

ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — Authorities say they believe animal rights activists set free from a pelt farm in central Minnesota 35,000 mink incapable of surviving in the wild. Someone dismantled parts of the exterior fence at Lang Farms near Eden V...

GILFORD, N.H. (AP) — These buffalo have been roaming through a New Hampshire town. Police in Gilford spent Tuesday afternoon corralling a herd of buffalo that got loose from a local farm. They say on Facebook the buffalo are "scared and running." T...

PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas Department of Agriculture has closed a Pine Bluff rice mill after the company laid off 35 workers without notice while defaulting on $10 million in state loans. The "cease and desist" notice issued to Southwind M...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Laughter can combat trauma. Spiritual cleansings could be used to fight an opioid addiction. Cactus extract may battle diabetes and obesity. These insights are from curanderismo — traditional indigenous healing from the Ame...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The University of Missouri System has closed its $10 million medical research institute as part of an effort to cut costs. The decision to close the International Institute of Nano and Molecular Medicine will affect 17 f...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An international robotics competition in Washington attracted teams of teenagers from more than 150 nations. The team that drew the most attention at the FIRST Global Challenge, which ended Tuesday, was a squad of girls from A...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon has begun selling ready-to-cook meal packages for busy households in a bid to expand its groceries business. Amazon-branded meal kits come with raw ingredients needed to prepare such meals as chicken tikka masala and falafel p...

MANITOWOC, Wis. (AP) — Police say an officer using a stun gun to restrain a naked man accidentally set the man's chest hair and beard on fire. Officers found the 32-year-old naked man standing in the street in Manitowoc (MAN'-ih-toh-walk), W...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Sens. Mike Lee and Jerry Moran decided they were in ready to disrupt the GOP rewrite of the health care law, they chose President Donald Trump's favorite medium. They could not support Senate Republicans' plan, the somewhat u...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran is nobody's idea of a rabble-rouser. A Republican stalwart with a low-key style and reputation for caution, his decision to publicly torpedo the latest Senate GOP plan to overhaul health care raised e...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court on Tuesday began weighing whether state legislators boosted spending on public schools enough this year to provide a suitable education to all children, as the court had ordered. Justices heard arguments f...

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A central Kansas 18-year-old has been ordered to spend four years in prison for causing a several-vehicle crash that killed one of the other drivers. The Salina Journal (http://bit.ly/2veEQmr ) reports Hunter Burns was s...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A woman has been charged with leaving a 3-year-old and an 11-month-old in a hot car at a suburban Kansas City mall. Neither child was seriously hurt. Thirty-two-year-old Sara Fite, of Olathe, Kansas, was charged Monday in J...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested one suspect in the weekend shooting death of a semi-pro football player in Wichita and continue looking for two others. KAKE-TV (http://bit.ly/2tBrvCP ) reports that police have identified the victim a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 62-year-old Wichita, Kansas, man with a previous conviction of sexual misconduct involving a boy has been sentenced to two life terms for sex offenses involving two more children. A Sedgwick County judge last week ordered D...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Democratic member of the U.S. Senate committee that conducted confirmation hearings for Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt said in a letter Tuesday that Oklahoma's former attorney general presented "...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The speaker of the Oklahoma House has replaced the head of the powerful House Appropriations and Budget Committee amid a disagreement about cuts to services by the state Department of Human Services. Republican Speaker Charles M...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma prosecutor is appealing a judge's order to return items confiscated during 2015 raids at a now-closed pipe shop in Norman. District Attorney Greg Mashburn asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Monday to order Special J...

IDABEL, Okla. (AP) — Two Oklahomans and one Texan have been arrested in the death of a man whose body was found in a well in southeast Oklahoma. The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday that 31-year-old Heather Melancon and 2...