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The shooting last May that killed 19 children and two teachers inside an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, led to pledges by governors in several states to make classrooms safer. But their speed in following through has varied. Here's a look at...

GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — Investigators announced Tuesday that they have collected new DNA evidence they hope will lead to a break in the killing of two Kansas women at a bakery 20 years ago. A delivery driver found the bodies of 24-year-old Mandi Alex...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Chris Klieman remembers when Missouri and Kansas State played every year in football, back before money-grabbing university administrators ushered in an era of conference realignment at the expense of deep-seated rivalries t...

JAMES SMITH CREE FIRST NATION, Saskatchewan (AP) — Fears ran high Tuesday on an Indigenous reserve in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan after police warned that the suspect in a deadly stabbing rampage over the weekend might be nearby and o...

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street Tuesday, extending the market's losses into a holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 fell 0.4% after bouncing between a gain of 0.5% and a loss of 1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.6% and the Nasdaq lost...

ATLANTA (AP) — Two months after the 2020 presidential election, a team of computer experts traveled to south Georgia to copy software and data from voting equipment in an apparent breach of a county election system. They were greeted outside by the h...

ATLANTA (AP) — Two months after the 2020 presidential election, a team of computer experts traveled to south Georgia to copy software and data from voting equipment in an apparent breach of a county election system. They were greeted outside by the h...

Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, built during the Soviet era and one of the 10 biggest in the world, has been engulfed by fighting between Russian and Ukrainian troops in recent weeks, fueling concerns of a nuclear catastrophe. Here is a...

According to the affidavits and petitions on file, the following individuals have been charged. An individual is innocent of any charges listed below until proven guilty in a court of law. All information is a matter of public record and may be...

Tuesday, August 30, 2022 During this day was one traffic stop and one report of cattle being out. 10:50 p.m. – Report of a suspicious person in the alley behind the Thrift Store. 11:06 p.m. – Report of four people at the ACE Hardware parking lot. Off...

The ladies of Nash Christian Women's Fellowship are honored to have Janet Cordell share some of her experiences during their annual Friendship Supper on Tuesday, Sept. 13, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at Nash Christian Church, 116 N, Main in Nash, Okla....

Commissioners in Alfalfa County took the action of taking no action on the county's burn ban. Mike Roach, Jay Hague, and Marvin Woodall conferred and collectively agreed to take no action, as the ban expired just the day before. But, again, officials...

Tuesday, Aug. 23, the Burlington School Board of Education met for a special morning meeting that lasted just under 30 minutes. President Robert Hill called the meeting to order with five board members present: Lindsey Callison, Terry Graham, Robert...

Handmade little wooden cars zooming down the track set up in a shelter at Progress Park were a main attraction on Sunday afternoon during Kiowa's Labor Day celebration. It was Kiowa's first Pinewood Derby on this leisurely weekend. The race coincided...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Civil rights groups filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of three transgender Oklahoma schoolchildren, arguing the state's new law requiring students use only the bathroom of the sex listed on their birth certificate is u...

BEIJING (AP) — Chinese state media say a man has been found safe after he spent two days aloft in a hydrogen balloon, traveling about 320 kilometers (200 miles), after it became untethered and flew away while he was using it to harvest pine nuts from...

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss said Thursday that her government will cap domestic energy prices for homes and businesses to ease a cost-of-living crisis that has left people and businesses across the U.K. facing a bleak winter. S...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unscheduled visit to Kyiv on Thursday as the Biden administration announced major new military aid worth more than $2 billion for Ukraine and other European countries threatened b...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A gunman who livestreamed himself driving around Memphis shooting at people, killing four and wounding three others in seemingly random attacks, was finally arrested after crashing a stolen car, police said early Thursday. T...