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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities say a body was found inside a vehicle after it was pulled from the North Canadian River in western Oklahoma City. Battalion Fire Chief Grant Roberts said the body was found Saturday morning after the vehicle was r...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A Tulsa County jury has found a 17-year-old competent to stand trial on murder, rape and 21 other felony charges. The jury on Friday decided that Deonte Green is fit for trial in the October 2017 fatal shooting of Broken Arrow m...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Nearly three months after returning from a mission trip in Nepal, Lexi Darrah died on Jan. 4, 2018. She was 21. Her family is honoring her memory by carrying on Lexi's gift of helping others. Lexi was diagnosed with Type 1 d...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Ling Ma said she hopes her new book will prompt readers to re-evaluate their everyday routines and "reconsider their own personal bigger picture of their own life." The author spent her teenage years in Topeka and went to W...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — It had been a rough weekend for first responders in Lawrence. First, they rescued a 1-year-old and his mother, after she allegedly drove a vehicle into the Kansas River. Then, the next day, they recovered the body of a 5-year-ol...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City University is hoping to shorten the learning curve by creating a program for prospective city officials that gives a basic understanding in civics and local government. The Leadership & Public Ad...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita police captain who was recorded shoving a teenage referee during a youth basketball game earlier this year is no longer with the department. Officer Paul Cruz tells the Wichita Eagle that Kevin Mears' employment with t...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Wichita say two people have been killed in an overnight shooting. Police say officers were called to the scene in north Wichita around 2:30 a.m. Saturday and found two men with gunshot wounds. The men were taken to a h...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A professor in Kansas says that poet Langston Hughes may have been born a year earlier that what's on record. Hughes is commonly thought to have been born in 1902, spending his childhood in Topeka and Lawrence, the Topeka Capital-...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A street market in Wichita has turned into a grassroots business incubator, reinvigorating the city's north end. The Nomar International Market, or Mercadito Hispano Nomar, is a grassroots business incubator launched and m...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Law enforcement agencies across Kansas are participating in a nearly month long campaign to reduce impaired or distracted driving. The "You Drink; You Drive; You Lose" campaign began Thursday and runs through Labor Day, Sept. 3...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Kofi Annan left the United Nations far more committed than it had been to combating poverty, promoting equality and fighting for human rights — and until his death Saturday he was speaking out strongly for nations working tog...

FREDERICK, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado has judge denied a request by a defense attorney for a man accused of killing his pregnant wife and two daughters to require a coroner to collect DNA from the necks of the young girls. The judge said in an order F...

MECCA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia is preparing to host the annual hajj pilgrimage beginning Sunday, as over 2 million Muslim faithful are ready to take part in the ultraconservative kingdom. The pilgrimage represents one of the five pillars of...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Vocal juggernaut. Social activist. Artistic collaborator. Diva. As Aretha Franklin is laid to rest, the Queen of...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Funding cuts to in-home care for the disabled could force some Missouri residents into nursing homes, advocates said. About $8 million of the $50 million the state Legislature initially cut last year has been restored, The St. L...

BLACK JACK, Mo. (AP) — A baby bobcat found in eastern Missouri and being nursed back to health might be mistaken for an ornery feral cat — until you hear her roar. The animal was found in July outside the YMCA in Potosi, scrawny and with her mot...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The state is promoting a campaign to reduce the number of stillborn deaths in Kansas. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced Wednesday it is partnering with Count the Kicks, a stillbirth prevention public h...

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump is accusing social media companies of "totally discriminating against Republican/Conservative voices" and says "we won't let that happen." Trump's Saturday morning tweets come as companies have been w...

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan is responding to China's arms buildup by developing missiles and interceptors of its own that could reduce Beijing's military advantage over the self-ruled island, defense experts say. Since President Tsai Ing-wen took o...

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal regulators are alleging that Facebook's advertising tools allow landlords and real estate brokers to engage in housing discrimination. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said in an administrative complaint t...