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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt removed the only two physicians from the board that oversees the state's Medicaid agency, just a week after the board voted 7-1 to delay implementing rules on Stitt's plan to privatize some Medicaid s...

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — The Department of Corrections is investigating the killing of an inmate at a private prison in Lawton. The agency said in a press release the body of 29-year-old Riley Walker was discovered Monday morning at the Lawton Correction...

ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Four people were hospitalized after a collision that occurred when a driver fled as police tried to stop her Tuesday in Arkansas City, police said. Officers tried to stop a pickup truck driven by 27-year-old Casiopia P...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall announced Tuesday that he was endorsing Attorney General Derek Schmidt in the Kansas governor's race. Marshall had initially endorsed former Gov. Jeff Colyer, who dropped out of the race last week after a...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas is moving slowly to spend the latest round of COVID-19 aid, and one town turned down its share because city officials decided it's not needed. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that while most state and local g...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — One man died and five women were injured early Tuesday in a shooting at a downtown nightclub in Wichita, Kansas, and police were still searching for the suspected shooter hours later, officials said. The shooting happened just af...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police have arrested a Wichita man on suspicion of first-degree murder in the shooting death last week of a man in Riverside Park. Detectives arrested Daniel Scott Carpenter, 33, on Friday in the death of 32-year-old Jason H...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — An arrest has been made in the shooting death of a man over the weekend in Kansas City, Kansas, police there said. The shooting happened late Saturday night, when officers called to the scene found Travis Eugene Bowman, 2...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — As the Labor Day weekend approached, Miles the Moose said goodbye to holiday travelers leaving Maine for the close of the summer. Miles the Moose and other members of the Maine Turnpike Authority handed out whoopie pies by W...

LaPLACE, La. (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in Louisiana, most of them outside New Orleans, still didn't have power Tuesday and more than half of the gas stations in two major cities were without fuel nine days after H...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Republicans in America's largest conservative state for years racked up victories under the slogan "Keep Texas Red," a pledge to quash a coming blue wave that Democrats argued was inevitable given shifting demographics. Now, t...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Joe Biden declared climate change "everybody's crisis" on Tuesday after touring neighborhoods severely damaged by the remnants of Hurricane Ida and said it's time for America to get serious about the danger or face ever wors...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban on Tuesday announced an all-male interim government for Afghanistan stacked with veterans of their hard-line rule from the 1990s and the 20-year battle against the U.S.-led coalition, a move that seems u...

VIENNA (AP) — Iran has continued to increase its stockpile of highly enriched uranium that could be used to make nuclear weapons in contravention of a 2015 accord with world powers that was meant to contain Tehran's nuclear program, the U.N. a...

BOSTON (AP) — Over two decades, the United States and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building databases for the Afghan people. The nobly stated goal: Promote law and order and government accountability and modernize a war-ravaged la...

COVID-19 booster shots may be coming for at least some Americans but already the Biden administration is being forced to scale back expectations — illustrating just how much important science still has to be worked out. The initial plan was to offer...

FREMONT, Ind. (AP) — The bald, broad-shouldered cyclist has spent years remembering a nighttime road in a faraway city. He can still describe the city's narrow streets and crushing heat. He talks about the dead end that forced his convoy turn a...

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Felony Filings David William Rigsby, Drummond, 44, has been charged with bringing contraband drugs into penal institution; endeavoring/conspiracy to deliver contraband and unauthorized entry into prison. ($1,024.50) Sandra Jean Robinson, Enid, 59,...

Donnie Head, program manager of Circuit Engineering District 8, sat with the Alfalfa County commissioners Monday during their meeting. Head, along with Marvin Woodall, Jay Hague, and Mike Roach, discussed at length several state jobs. They reviewed...

Popular columnist Peggy Goodrich will be the guest speaker at the annual Friendship Supper hosted by the Nash Christian Women’s Fellowship on Tuesday, Sept. 14, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at Nash Christian Church. Since 1993, Goodrich has been writing h...

At a special meeting, Kiowa's City Council hired a new city clerk. She is Sheila Smith, who is moving to Kiowa from Wichita, Kansas. City Administrator Sam Demel said Smith has “lots of experience.” Smith has worked for the Sedgwick County Court Tru...

Stewart Ott, 30 of Kiowa, died in a single vehicle rollover Friday morning, according to Kansas Highway Patrol Charley Brattain. Ott's friends reported to the Newsgram that he was on his way to work early. A call came to the Barber County Sheriff's...