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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in Oklahoma City say they have no suspects in the death of a man who was shot multiple times. Authorities say the shooting occurred about 5:30 p.m. Saturday at an apartment complex on the city's northwest side. Police w...

ODESSA, Texas (AP) — Authorities said Sunday they still could not explain why a man with an AR-style weapon opened fire during a routine traffic stop in West Texas to begin a terrifying rampage that killed seven people, injured 22 others and ended w...

SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) — The Archer Learning Center's new home adjacent to Murphy Park has excited its students, Principal Coby Davis noticed. "Kids are a lot more interested when it feels like the space is made for them," he told the Northwest A...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas schools are struggling to prevent vaping among students, even as growing cases appear nationwide of a mysterious lung disease related to the use of electronic cigarettes. E-cigarettes have been described as a less d...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Tom Folz drives around on a sunny, August afternoon and surveys the thousands of acres of dark green, leafy soybean plants and tall stalks of corn he grows on his sprawling farm in Christian County, Kentucky. At 54, Folz h...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Another small earthquake has rattled shelves and rattled nerves in the Kansas town of Hutchinson. The U.S. Geological Survey says the earthquake occurred at 8:21 a.m. Sunday and was a 3.1 magnitude. There were no immediate r...

JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — Yellowstone National Park biologists have announced plans to release toxins into a river to remove exotic fish. The Jackson Hole News & Guide reported Friday that the poisons are expected to be discharged Monday into the upper G...

McLEAN'S TOWN CAY, Bahamas (AP) — Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas on Sunday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, its record 185 mph winds ripping off roofs and tearing down power lines as hundreds hunkered in schools, churches and o...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities say former New Mexico Chief Justice Charles Daniels has died. Chief Justice Judith K. Nakamura issued a statement Sunday on behalf of the state Supreme Court about Daniels' death, calling him "a titan of the l...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and China on Sunday put in place their latest tariff increases on each other's goods, potentially raising prices Americans pay for some clothes, shoes, sporting goods and other consumer items before the holiday s...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of miles from the union halls of Pennsylvania and Michigan, organized labor is flexing its muscles in a pitched battle with Big Tech. And the Democratic Party's 2020 class isn't being shy about picking sides. In a...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump expressed a commitment Sunday, hours after the latest deadly mass shooting, to work with a divided Congress to "stop the menace of mass attacks." He said any measures must satisfy the competing goals of p...

GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — One of the South's largest grocery store chains is eyeing a future that could involve hand-held scanners and fewer cashiers. The new method of shopping has been in place this summer at a Kroger store in Gainesville, G...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska fire department has announced new technology has been installed to help monitor wildfires. The Alaska Energy Desk reported Friday that forester John See oversaw the installation of the fire-monitoring device on a S...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana wildlife organization has announced it has expanded its conservation area after purchasing a ranch. The Billings Gazette reported Thursday that the American Prairie Reserve has added 22 square miles (57 square k...

BENI, Congo (AP) — The United Nations secretary general visited Congo's eastern city of Beni on Sunday, pledging solidarity as the region faces an Ebola outbreak that has killed nearly 2,000 people in a year and ongoing insecurity that has r...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Where's the pope? He's stuck in a Vatican elevator. Thousands of people who were gathered in St. Peter's Square for the traditional Sunday on-the-dot-of-noon appearance by Pope Francis were watching for the window of the A...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In a story Aug. 29 about rural Nevada counties making emergency plans in case crowds arrive for "Storm Area 51" events, The Associated Press reported erroneously that organizers of festivals in two Nevada desert towns hope people w...

ATLANTA (AP) — With Bobby Cox in the house, the Atlanta Braves found instant extra motivation. Josh Donaldson and Johan Camargo hit two-run homers and Mike Soroka snapped a streak of eight starts without a win as the Braves beat the Toronto Blue J...

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — Ezekiel Elliott's holdout wasn't a topic when Jason Garrett addressed the Dallas Cowboys for the first time at training camp in California, or at least that's what the coach says. Now that the Cowboys have held their first p...

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Some Alabama players kept an eye on former teammate Jalen Hurts' debut as Oklahoma's quarterback. They came away pleased, but not really surprised. Crimson Tide coach Nick Saban, meanwhile, said he didn't get to watch the f...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Though he wasn't named Oklahoma State's starting quarterback until right before kickoff last weekend, redshirt freshman Spencer Sanders enjoyed an impressive debut in the Cowboys' 52-36 victory at Oregon State. After w...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Even one of the best nights ever for an Oklahoma player wasn't good enough for Jalen Hurts. The new Sooners quarterback passed for three touchdowns and ran for three more, and No. 4 Oklahoma rolled past Houston 49-31 on Sunday ni...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kansas City-area schools are trying to remedy a critical teacher shortage looming as the new school year begins, including by placing unqualified educators into some classrooms. Some school districts have been rehiring r...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Everything has to come from somewhere. So it is that a small company in south Arkansas has become a leading producer of sand. Not "Lawrence of Arabia" sand or time-is-running-out sand or bury-dad-to-the-neck-on-vacation s...