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NEW YORK (AP) — The city's quest to make itself a legitimate rival to Silicon Valley as a high-tech hub has long bumped up against some harsh realities, among them the fact it hasn't had a top-tier technology school pumping out the next generation o...

LARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — The Interstate 80 corridor cutting across Wyoming is a major thoroughfare for tractor-trailers transporting freight across the country. It can also be deadly during the long Wyoming winter, when blowing snow, ice and decreased v...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's civil war has been one of the modern world's most brutal conflicts and one of its most heavily filmed. Hundreds of thousands of amateur videos uploaded to YouTube document every heartbeat of the war over the past seven years, fr...

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The bristlecone pine tree, famous for its wind-beaten, gnarly limbs and having the longest lifespan on Earth, is losing a race to the top of mountains throughout the Western United States, putting future generations in peril, r...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's Cassini spacecraft is getting a grand but hilarious opera send-off before it plunges through Saturn's atmosphere and vaporizes Friday. An actor from TV's old "Star Trek: Voyager" series, Robert Picardo, said he d...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Thousands of Pacific walrus are coming to Alaska's northwest shore again in the absence of summer sea ice and not all are surviving. A survey Monday of a mile of coastline near the Inupiaq Eskimo village of Point Lay found 6...

PISA, Italy (AP) — Tenor Andrea Bocelli has brought down the house at Pisa's Teatro Verdi by performing with an unusual conductor: a robot. The white, two-armed YuMi robot, designed by the Swiss company ABB for factory assembly lines, led Bocelli a...

BONNER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by a Kansas teacher who sued a school district for installing a hidden camera in a classroom where he sometimes changed clothes. Science teacher Rob Marriott said in a lawsuit t...

BERLIN (AP) — Scientists say one-third of the ice stored in Asia's glaciers will be lost by the end of the century even if the world manages to meet its ambitious goal of keeping global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius, affecting water supplies f...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The Manhattan fire department says it responded to a small hazardous waste leak at Kansas State University. The department was sent to the university's Chemistry/Biochemistry building Wednesday morning, where a small ammonia c...

LINCOLN, Mass. (AP) — A new report warns that more than 40 percent of the most common breeding species of birds in Massachusetts are considered "highly vulnerable" to climate change. The Mass Audubon State of the Birds report released this week s...

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A Soyuz space capsule with two Americans and a Russian aboard has docked with the International Space Station. The capsule blasted off from the Russian manned space launch facility in Kazakhstan and docked with the o...

PLANO, Texas (AP) — An injured hawk that sought refuge in a Houston taxicab before Harvey made landfall last month has been returned to the wild. Cabdriver William Bruso dubbed the female Cooper's hawk "Harvey the Hurricane Hawk" in online videos ....

LONDON (AP) — London's monster fatberg may be destined for a museum. The Museum of London says it is trying to acquire a chunk of the 130 metric ton (143 U.S. ton) mass of oil, fat, diapers and baby wipes currently clogging one of the city's V...

EASTON, Pa. (AP) — Police say a driver's global positioning system device caused him to drive into a Pennsylvania river. The (Easton) Express-Times (http://bit.ly/2vT26GH ) says the motorist wound up in the Lehigh River in Easton shortly after 1...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas State Board of Education panel has recommended a new licensing system to reduce the shortage of teachers in the state. State education department officials said Tuesday that there are 90 elementary school teacher o...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man accused of conspiring to bomb a Kansas apartment complex housing Somali refugees argued Wednesday that he was unaware his co-defendants intended to carry out the attack. Gavin Wright made the argument in a redacted, 9...

GIRARD, Kan. (AP) — A former Pittsburg police officer is charged after he allegedly coerced a woman he had arrested into improper sexual contact in exchange for helping her in her legal case. Twenty-two-year-old Jessie Edward Loren Davis, of C...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita officer recovering from injuries suffered when he was run over by a stolen car earlier this year has been transferred to a rehabilitation center in Texas. The Wichita Eagle reports that Brian Arterburn flew to Texas o...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Department of Transportation has extended a scenic byway to add local and regional landmarks in two counties. The Manhattan Mercury reports the Native Stone Scenic Byway has increased from less than 50 miles (80 m...

ABILENE, Kan. (AP) — A former central Kansas sheriff's lieutenant is charged with stealing cash that was seized as evidence. The Salina Journal reports that Greg Swanson will make his first appearance next month on felony charges of theft, o...

TONGANOXIE, Kan. (AP) — Three state lawmakers who represent parts of Leavenworth County have scheduled a public forum to discuss a proposal from Tyson Foods Inc. to build a massive poultry processing complex near Tonganoxie. The forum comes amid o...

MINNEOLA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say two people are dead after a pickup truck and tractor-trailer crashed head on in southwest Kansas. The Kansas Highway Patrol says the truck was headed westbound in an eastbound lane of U.S. 54 on Tuesday m...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A former Oklahoma state senator cried in federal court as he pleaded not guilty to child pornography and sex trafficking charges. The Oklahoman reports that Ralph Shortey appeared in court Wednesday after a federal grand jury i...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has ended a two-year legal fight between a pipe shop and a Republican prosecutor in a liberal college town. The court on Monday ruled in favor of returning hundreds of glass pipes that were seized in 2...