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After continued gloomy reports about city revenues, especially the decreasing sales tax collections, the Alva City Council received some encouraging news Monday. The last two months, the sales tax collections have actually shown an increase over...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Harvey (all times local): 6:50 p.m. Authorities say sheriff's deputies in the Houston area saw a tornado touchdown about four times near Cypress as Tropical Storm Harvey pounds Texas. The Harris C...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — Harvey spun deeper into Texas and unloaded extraordinary amounts of rain Saturday after the once-fearsome hurricane crashed into vulnerable homes and businesses along the coastline in a blow that killed at least one p...

DALLAS (AP) — Key oil and gas facilities along the Texas Gulf Coast have temporarily shut down as Harvey pounds the region with torrential rain and high winds, virtually assuring gasoline prices will rise in the storm's aftermath. Even before the H...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of peace marchers flooded the heart of Barcelona on Saturday shouting "I'm not afraid" — a public rejection of violence following extremist attacks that killed 15 people, Spain's deadliest in more than a...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Matt "Airistotle" Burns is the best when it comes to pretend playing guitar. The American successfully defended his title at the 22nd Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland on Friday after competing in the f...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea fired several rockets into the sea Saturday in the continuation of its rapid nuclear and missile expansion, prompting South Korea to press ahead with military drills involving U.S. troops that have angered P...

ST. GEORGE, Utah (AP) — Federal regulators are asking Utah officials to show they'd be able to pay for a contentious proposed billion-dollar Lake Powell pipeline to draw water to southwestern Utah's growing Washington County. The state submitted i...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro vowed Friday to prosecute for treason opponents he accused of being behind sweeping U.S. financial sanctions that will strain relations between the countries and make it harder for the s...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Nearly 1,800 temporary work visas have been certified in Illinois so far this fiscal year. Most of the Illinois visas went to labor-intensive fruit and vegetable farms, the Chicago Tribune reported. There's no cap on the n...

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Justin Heupel has stuck with plan A for more than two decades as he's moved from eastern to western Montana teaching agriculture. "Plan A was to be an ag education teacher," Heupel said during an interview in a classroom at t...

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Active-duty transgender troops say a policy change that puts them at risk of being removed and indefinitely bars transgender people from enlisting in the military is a step backward for civil rights that will promote inequality in th...

NEW YORK (AP) — As a court fight simmers over New York City's pioneering requirement for calorie counts on chain restaurant menus, scientists say the jury's still out on whether giving people the numbers spurs them to eat healthier. The city says tha...

PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) — When anesthesiologist Richard Wick opted to practice in rural Walla Walla after his residency last summer, the decision put him at odds with most of his classmates. Young physicians tend to flock to jobs in big cities. Wick, w...

DALLAS (AP) — A young girl's repeated attempts to dial 911 went unanswered as her mother lay dying from stab wounds in a Texas hotel room. She didn't know she had to dial 9 first to get an outside line. Under a measure nearing final approval in C...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia Tech's new drone cage is taking shape on the north side of campus, promising students and researchers a place to go when they want to push the boundaries on new technologies outside of what is allowed in public a...

GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — If a man pees in the forest and a mountain goat is around to lick the salt deposit, will the goat ever leave? As it turns out, no. After four years of study, Glacier National Park rangers have definitively figured out why m...

GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey authorities say a psychic and her son cheated an elderly man out of more than $147,000 for treatment they said would rid him of evil spirits. Galloway police say Sally "Kim" Wando and her son, Frank Marco, f...