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DENVER (AP) — Health officials say the number of Hepatitis A cases in Colorado this year is more than double the total for a typical year. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said Wednesday the state has recorded 54 cases in 2...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's Supreme Court said a former worker in a Samsung LCD factory who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis should be recognized as having an occupationally caused disease, overturning lower court verdicts that h...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Brad Davis leaned over the box of pastels and asked what colors go with anger. Two women sculpting clay nearby suggested red, orange and maybe yellow. The fiery-colored pastels rasped across his sketching paper as Davis set to w...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) The technologies driving artificial intelligence are expanding exponentially, leading many technology experts and fut...

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A test version of a spacecraft resembling a mini space shuttle was carried aloft over the Mojave Desert by a helicopter Wednesday in a precursor to a free flight in which it will be released to autonomously l...

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. military shot down a medium-range ballistic missile during a test off Hawaii, officials said. The Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai Island launched the target missile late Tuesday. Sailors aboard the destroyer USS John...

BOSTON (AP) — Alexa, meet Cortana. Microsoft and Amazon are pairing their voice assistants together in a collaboration announced Wednesday. Both companies say that later this fall, users will be able to access Alexa using Cortana on Windows 10 c...

NEW YORK (AP) — Donna Brown visited a Whole Foods for the first time in at least five months with one goal: see how much Amazon had cut prices. She did buy almond milk, yogurt and lunch meat, but doesn't plan to quit her usual grocers, Walmart and HE...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two weeks before Harvey's flood waters engulfed much of Houston, President Donald Trump quietly rolled back an order by his predecessor that would have made it easier for storm-ravaged communities to use federal emergency aid to r...

DEVILS TOWER, Wyo. (AP) — Just like in the science-fiction movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," UFO enthusiasts are being drawn to a strange geological formation in Wyoming. Devils Tower played a key role in the well-known UFO film that c...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Chicago software company is donating $1 million to an artificial intelligence initiative at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. University officials announced Tuesday that Uptake's investment in CMU AI will create a new f...

LONDON (AP) — Spitting into a hand-held device could soon be a way of diagnosing concussions in sports. For the upcoming season in English rugby, players in the top two leagues will provide saliva samples as part of major study into concussions. T...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — John Stephenson stood atop a boulder in a steep talus field high above Jenny Lake, turning a VHF tracking antenna from side to side. To a layman the fuzzy beeps that bounced back sounded like a whole lot of nothing. To the G...

PAJARITO MESA, N.M. (AP) — A New Mexico man is facing aggravated assault charges after authorities say he used an AK-47 to shoot out the tires of a man he accused of stealing his horses. Court records show that David Derringer was arrested S...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican state Rep. Scott Schwab says he plan to run for Kansas Secretary of State. Schwab, of Olathe, announced his campaign Wednesday, saying he wants to improve how the state implements its election laws. He said his e...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say they have made more than 40 arrests over three days stemming from an investigation into narcotics distribution in several western Kansas and eastern Colorado counties. The announcement in a press release W...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has issued an executive order to help commercial vehicles headed to Texas to help with Hurricane Harvey recovery. The governor's order issued on Wednesday applies only to commercial vehicles p...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A former physician assistant at a Veteran's Administration hospital in Kansas on trial for sexually abusing patients told investigators in a taped interview that he didn't "have any business in medicine." The interview was p...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a southeast Kansas woman has admitted to embezzling more than $210,000 from the bank where she worked. The U.S. attorney's office says 59-year-old Debra Nading, of Oswego, pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma City Council is moving forward with completing the construction of the American Indian Cultural Center and Museum. The Council's unanimous vote Tuesday supports agreements to complete the project with the C...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter says Oklahoma's Price Stabilization Act is in effect now that a disaster declaration has been issued to deal with the impact of Hurricane Harvey. Hunter said Wednesday that the p...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Police in Norman say one of two suspects in a woman's shooting death has surrendered to sheriff's deputies in southwest Oklahoma. Officials say 29-year-old Ashlee Nicole Vasquez turned herself in at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday in C...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A hospital spokesman says an Oklahoma City entertainer has died after being injured at a wrestling event. State Athletic Commission Administrator Joe Miller says 25-year-old William Ogletree suffered a critical head injury S...

ADA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter wants a national advocacy group to stop sending letters to the state demanding removal of religious articles from a state university's chapel. Hunter wrote a letter Wednesday to the W...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — It's been a quarter-century since a standoff in the mountains of northern Idaho left a 14-year-old boy, his mother and a federal agent dead and sparked an expansion of radical right-wing groups in the United States that c...