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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin man who doctors say came perilously close to death after accidentally shooting a nail into his heart while working on his house calmly drove himself to the hospital and even parked his pickup truck in the lot before w...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — An alligator has been found in a swimming pool at a motel at the New Jersey shore. The 3-foot-long (0.91-meter-long) alligator was discovered Tuesday morning at the Bayview Inn & Suites in Atlantic City. Authorities say i...

MALMEDY, Belgium (AP) — Defying rain and a tainted egg scandal that has shaken European consumers, a Belgian town has turned nearly 10,000 eggs into a giant omelet for the whole community. Cooks and volunteers whipped up the massive concoction T...

BERLIN (AP) — Police say a semi-trailer full of chocolate has been stolen in a small central German town and are calling on witnesses who may have seen the sweet-toothed thieves. Police spokesman Martin Ahlich said Tuesday the cooled truck trailer c...

NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio (AP) — A northeast Ohio sheriff's office is auctioning off a nearly century-old machine gun to help pay for new weapons for deputies. The Dover-New Philadelphia Times Reporter reports (http://bit.ly/2us3bJ2 ) that an expert h...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — He won't even be able to vote, but a 16-year-old Wichita high school student says he's serious about his bid to run for governor of Kansas. Jack Bergerson has filed to run as a Democrat in the 2018 race for governor of Kansas, s...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has joined 13 other states in an interstate communications network that allows public safety agencies to communicate across jurisdictions during emergencies. Gov. Sam Brownback announced Tuesday that the state has joined t...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A judge has dismissed charges against a former Bel Aire police officer ensnared in a scheme to buy and sell discounted firearms by falsely claiming they would be used for law enforcement purposes. Court records show p...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The parents of a Kansas child missing for nearly 30 years are suing authorities to release investigative records from the case. Harold and Alberta Leach filed the lawsuit Monday in Leavenworth County District Court, the Lawrence...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Missouri woman has been sentenced after she said she obtained more 8,000 oxycodone tablets without any type of medical exam from a Kansas doctor. The U.S. attorney's office says 52-year-old Kimi Harper, of Kansas City, M...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The FBI says a 24-year-old man accused of robbing a Louisiana bank has been caught at a university in Oklahoma. Jeffrey Sallet, special agent in charge in New Orleans, said in a news release Tuesday that Langston University p...

MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (AP) — The 22-pound animal is full of energy. He swings his tail left and right as patients circle in the Baxter Regional Medical Center's Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation to watch him perform old and new tricks. Barney, who is 7...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Vietnam veteran Grant Dorothy has tried just about everything to manage the pain he's lived with since 1970, when he was wounded in combat. He drank heavily to self-medicate until 1986. He tried pain management counseling a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Underneath the streets of downtown Oklahoma City, a series of tunnels connects parking garages and office buildings. What many don't know is that the tunnels also contain a small collection of businesses and restaurants. Oklahoma...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Amazon's sorting center and FedEx Ground's new distribution warehouse knocked on the city's door rather than being recruited. "Both of them are a result of the momentum of the marketplace," said Kurt Foreman, executive vice presi...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's attorney general has requested that state regulators dismiss a preapproval case for a utility that wants to build a $4.5 billion wind farm. The motion against the Public Service Co. of Oklahoma's Wind Catcher p...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — School officials in Oklahoma City and Tulsa will reconsider whether their schools should bear the names of confederate generals after a white nationalist rally decrying the planned removal of a Robert E. Lee statue turned d...