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EDMOND, Okla. (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Four small earthquakes have rattled parts of central Oklahoma. The U.S. Geological Survey's website reports the four quakes struck midday Monday, all with magnitudes lower than 3.0. The first magnitude 2...

TULSA, Okla. (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Public costs connected to the case involving an ex-reserve deputy who fatally shot an unarmed man has reached over $334,000. The costs have reached $334,160 following the settlement of tort claim filed by a...

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Authorities have arrested and charged a Kansas man in an attempted robbery and shooting at a suburban Kansas City store. The Johnson County District Attorney's office announced Tuesday that 27-year-old A...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — A judge has denied self-defense claims from one of four men charged in a fatal gunfight at a suburban Kansas City. De'Anthony Wiley, of Kansas City, Missouri, claimed that he was wounded and trying to s...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Prosecutors say a man who pleaded guilty to a series of shootings on Kansas City-area highways in 2014 will be sentenced to 30 years in prison. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said in a n...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Kansas City's mayor accused Missouri legislators Tuesday of trying to "double down on stupid" in their push to override Gov. Jay Nixon's veto of a measure that would broadly expand the rights of gun o...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson proposed Tuesday that the state tap into $8.5 million in unused money from the 1999 settlement with tobacco companies to provide more services to the developmentally d...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin said Tuesday a state panel doesn't have the authority to reject placing a Ten Commandments monument at the Capitol, while three other proposed displays would s...

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — A Bentonville woman has been charged after authorities say she took a kitten from an animal clinic. The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://bit.ly/2cFVMdS) reports that 27-year-old Brittany D...

CHICAGO (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Federal prosecutors in Chicago have filed fraud charges against an Arkansas sports memorabilia collector, accusing him of defrauding investors by offering a phony Heisman Trophy as collateral for a $100,000 l...

HOUSTON (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — A federal court rejected a lawsuit by five Texas death row inmates who said the lethal drugs intended for their executions should be retested before their punishments are carried out to ensure they suffer no u...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Austin police say a man and woman found dead last week in a tent in the woods were killed. Police said Monday that the Travis County medical examiner's office has ruled that the two deaths were h...

ODESSA, Texas (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Leaders of a West Texas county have approved an agreement to fix headstones at a cemetery where a 4-year-old boy died last year when a tombstone fell on him. Ector County Commissioners on Monday approved a...

VICTORIA, Texas (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Prosecutors say a 36-year-old convicted human smuggler from Mexico linked to the deaths of two immigrants must live out his life in a U.S. prison. Noe Aranda-Soto of San Carlos, Mexico, was sentenced M...

ALPINE, Texas (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — A 14-year-old female freshman who shot and wounded a fellow student at a West Texas high school before killing herself had planned to shoot her 14-year-old stepbrother before shooting herself, police h...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — The fight over a grouse found in pockets across the Great Plains is far from over as industry and state officials worried Tuesday that relisting the lesser prairie chicken as a federally protected s... Full story

HAMILTON, Ohio (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Police say a 23-year-old man looking for protection ran into an Ohio jail and became trapped in the facility. Authorities say Chad Saylor breached the Butler County Resolutions facility in Hamilton on S...

TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — The punishment for a New Jersey pizza man who finished last in his fantasy football league included a very public walk of shame and a pair of women's underwear. Angelo Boemio, 42, marched down a r...

BROOKLINE, N.H. (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — After waiting 11 years to marry her groom, a flat tire wasn't going to stop a determined New Hampshire bride from walking down the aisle on her special day. With her limo rendered inoperable along an i...

HOMER, Ohio (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Nearly a century and a half before Hillary Clinton, a fiery activist from Ohio became the first woman nominated for U.S. president. Victoria Woodhull's varied and colorful life makes her difficult to p...

Leave it to the great minds at MIT and Georgia Tech to figure out a way to read the pages of a book without actually opening it. A team of researchers from the two institutions pulled it off with a system they developed that looks like a cross...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — A case of the Zika virus in Utah is now the only one in the continental U.S. that's still puzzling researchers on exactly how it spread, health officials said Tuesday. The man caught the illness after cari...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — The state attorney general announced settlements Tuesday with Viacom, Mattel, Hasbro and JumpStart Games to stop them from using or allowing tracking technology on their popular children's websites. The sett...

NEW YORK (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Listen up. Amazon is adding free audiobooks and a digital audio service called Audible Channels to the ever-growing list of perks for members of its Prime loyalty program. Seattle-based Amazon has been e...

NEW YORK (AP, posted Sept. 13, 2016) — Pandora will soon take on Spotify, Apple Music and others in an extremely competitive field with its own, $10 monthly streaming music service, and a cheaper version as well. The Internet radio company did not r...