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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — The University of Arkansas at Fayetteville says it will offer reduced out-of-state tuition to qualifying first-year students beginning next year. The reduction is part of the university's Extended Stat...

HUNTSVILLE, Ark. (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Authorities say a police dog died after she was left in a hot patrol car by her handler in western Arkansas. Madison County Sheriff Phillip Morgan says the dog, named Lina, died Friday. The sheriff s...

DALLAS (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Orderly lines of small homes in the shadow of Interstate 30 in Dallas are a sign that Texas is embracing a national trend of giving the homeless permanent, subsidized housing and augmenting it with support s...

WACO, Texas (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — A grand jury declined to recommend charges for three Waco, Texas, police officers who shot bikers during a gunfight between rival motorcycle clubs in which nine people were killed and 20 others were hurt, t...

NEW YORK (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — The next book from former President George W. Bush will be more about pictures than words. "Portraits of Courage: A Commander in Chief's Tribute to America's Warriors" will feature 66 oil paintings and a f...

ODESSA, Texas (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Prosecutors who originally charged a 17-year-old in the shooting deaths of his parents at their West Texas home have also charged his 23-year-old sister with the slayings. Ector County District Attorney B...

GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — A candy company has stuck to its word and sent a Texas man a Louisville Slugger glove nearly 60 years after a bubble gum and baseball card contest began. Darwin Day, 70, of Grand Prairie was c...

SARDIS, Ala. (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Far from the desert, a teenage driver collided with a camel on an Alabama road, injuring the driver and animal. Sardis Police Chief James Harp tells The Gadsden Times (http://bit.ly/2c887t9) that the c...

MADRID (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Agustin Aliaga's marriage to his wife Juani Sanchez has lasted 37 years, even though he lost his wedding ring just months after they tied the knot. But now, the ring has been found. Diver Jessy Nisos says she f...

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — A grieving Lithuanian family had its grief compounded by shock last week when a coffin arrived from Sweden bearing a body that was supposed to belong to a dead relative. Instead, the 41-year-old t...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — A Texas A&M University student holding a sign that pleaded with rocker Bruce Springsteen to share a song on stage had his wish come true in Philadelphia. KBTX-TV (http://bit.ly/2c8GT0K) reports M...

DURANGO, Colo. (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Two pack llamas that have been stranded for a month in the Weminuche Wilderness are still on the lam. The llamas, named Dawson and Chai, were with two women who became lost for two cold nights northeast o...

BROWNSTOWN, Ind. (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — A southern Indiana man passed over for a coaching and teaching position allegedly mailed four dead skunks and a dead raccoon to the successful applicant, court documents say. Travis Tarrants, 40, of W...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Don Dickens reached a peak on The Promontory at Yellowstone National Park, certain he would saunter down a few hundred feet and find the 40-pound chest of treasures that Santa Fe author and artifacts c...

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus has raised a few eyebrows with some of the names he has picked for naval ships. Why, critics questioned, would he name a ship in honor of the late gay rights leader Harvey Milk or after former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords whe...

HANNIBAL, Ohio (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Crushed by Chinese competition and feeling betrayed by mainstream politicians, workers in the hills of eastern Ohio are embracing Donald Trump and his tough talk on trade. For decades, they and others l...

NEW YORK (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — In Japan, it's called "shinrin-yoku," which translates as forest bathing. It's the practice of immersing yourself in nature to improve your well-being, and interest in the concept is growing, with spas, r...

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Ocean explorer Dave Lovalvo's underwater robot Yogi, custom made to probe the depths of Yellowstone Lake, gives him a fancy new tool to find something. "Something" being the operative word. What it w...

MADRID (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — If space is the final frontier, it will help to have an accurate map, and the European Space Agency said Wednesday its mission to chart more than 1 billion stars in the Milky Way is on track for completion in a y...

LONDON (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Men with early prostate cancer who choose to closely monitor their disease are just as likely to survive at least 10 years as those who have surgery or radiation, finds a major study that directly tested and c...

WASHINGTON (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Facing public furor for the price of its emergency allergy shot EpiPen, Mylan Pharmaceuticals quickly pointed to a familiar industry solution: copay discount cards. Copay coupons or cards have become a u...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — A Fairfax County mosquito biologist has brought back his hip-hop alter ego to teach listeners how to prevent the spread of the Zika virus. The Washington Post (http://wapo.st/2cJstqL) reports that Andy L...

AMES, Iowa (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — A former Iowa State University student is suing the school for allegedly mishandling the response to her sexual assault by another student in 2014, saying its insensitive approach and bureaucratic errors f...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Two Liberty University football players have been suspended from the team after an investigation connected them to an alleged sexual assault last year, the school said. Players Cameron Jackson and Kyle C...

GREENSBURG, Pa. (AP, posted Sept. 14, 2016) — Faster-than-expected corrosion caused a Pennsylvania natural gas pipeline blast that scorched 40 rural acres in April and badly burned a man whose home was destroyed, the Texas energy company that owns th...