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WASHINGTON (AP) — Design limitations of the Tesla Model S's Autopilot played a major role in the first known fatal crash of a highway vehicle operating under automated control systems, the National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday. The b...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) — Google is appealing a $2.9 billion fine imposed by European Union regulators. The EU had dinged the search giant for favoring shopping listings it gets paid for. Google's appeal comes even as it is working to comply w...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Carmakers at the Frankfurt auto show are unveiling the low-emissions vehicles and technology strategies they hope will let them profit from the sweeping changes expected to hit the auto industry in the next few years. D...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Hurricane Harvey, with its historical amount of rainfall over Texas, followed by a string of Hurricanes Irma, Jose...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Millions of high schoolers are fighting with their alarm clocks as they start another academic year. As they...

Until Cassini's arrival at Saturn in 2004, humanity had never viewed Saturn up close and personal. In all, Cassini has provided more than 453,000 pictures of Saturn, its rings and moons. The final snapshots will be coming down hours before the...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's Kennedy Space Center remained closed Tuesday but appeared to have weathered Hurricane Irma well. The same holds true at adjoining Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Power was restored to NASA and Air Force f...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Many people find mathematics daunting. If true, this piece is for you. If not, this piece is still for you. What do...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Human evolution can seem like a phenomenon of the distant past which applies only to our ancestors living millions...

ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland (AP) — One of the candidates in for mayor in St. John's, Newfoundland, has become a celebrity — the one with fur and four legs. It's a 5-year-old Australian cattle dog named Finn. He's featured in a tongue-in-cheek, cam...

DENVILLE, N.J. (AP) — Two women have delivered healthy babies on back-to-back days in the parking lot of the same Burger King restaurant in New Jersey. Denville police say they were called to the restaurant Friday night for a woman going into l...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Derek Mason has the Vanderbilt Commodores off to their first 2-0 start in his tenure, a perfect beginning that is about to be tested. And how. The Commodores host 18th-ranked Kansas State on Saturday night, and that's the f...

EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have released the identity of a man whose body was found inside a burning car in rural Lyon County. The victim who was identified Tuesday as 19-year-old Jesus Avila-Galvin Jr. of Emporia. Emergency responders were c...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State University will use a $3.6 million grant from the Charles Koch Foundation to create an Institute for the Study of Economic Growth. University officials say the institute will focus on economic and business r...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City prosecutor has found that law enforcement officers were justified in fatally shooting a woman. KMBC-TV reports that District Attorney Steve Howe made the decision after reviewing the Aug. 23 shooting of 2...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A wooden cross on the roof of a church in Lawrence has been found sawed off in a recent act of vandalism. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that church member Esther Harjo found the cross on the ground outside the Lawrence I...

BELLEVILLE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suspect in a Kansas City, Kansas, homicide after a search that caused several schools and public agencies to be placed on lockdown in two small towns near the Nebraska border. The Salina Journal r...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State freshman linebacker Brendan Vaughn has been dismissed from the team after being charged with unlawful possession of marijuana with intent to distribute within 2,000 feet of a school and unlawful possession o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Democratic school teacher defeated a Republican businessman Tuesday in a special election for a House seat in west Norman, making it the third Republican-held seat Democrats have captured in special elections this year. A...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma state senator accused of grabbing an Uber driver's head and kissing her neck while she was driving him to a bar both resigned from office and was booked into jail Tuesday after being charged last week with felony s...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma audit has found financial mismanagement within a sheriff's office in the central part of the state, causing over-expenditure of public funds and noncompliance with state law. The audit conducted from July 2011 to J...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma state senator resigned after he was arrested and a former governor's aide was charged Tuesday in separate investigations linked to sex scandals. These are the latest allegations against Oklahoma's ruling Republican l...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Baker Mayfield is one of the most visible players in college football. Oklahoma's energetic quarterback has finished in the top four of the Heisman Trophy race the past two years. He garnered more attention last Saturday by plant...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Charges have been filed against a former member of the Oklahoma governor's staff who was investigated on allegations that he took photos or video up a woman's skirt at the State Capitol. Oklahoma County District Court records s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The chairman of Oklahoma's House Appropriations and Budget Committee has a plan to fill a $215 million budget shortfall that includes raising the tax on cigarettes by $1.50 per pack and allowing Indian casinos to offer r...