Alva Review-Courier -

Only half of America's smallest businesses now offer health coverage to their workers because many say steady cost hikes have made it too expensive to afford a benefit that nearly all large employers still provide. The Kaiser Family Foundation said...

Attorneys general from most states are broadening their investigation into the opioid industry as a nationwide overdose crisis continues to claim thousands of lives. They announced Tuesday that they had served subpoenas requesting information from...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Employing an array of giant telescopes positioned in the New Mexico desert, astronomers have started a massive surveying project aimed at producing the most detailed view ever made of such a large portion of space using r...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An environmental science teacher at Broken Arrow Public Schools has been named Oklahoma's Teacher of the Year for 2018. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister said Tuesday that Donna Gradel (GRAW-dul) was n...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Cleanups at some U.S. hazardous waste sites have stopped or slowed down because the Environmental Protection Agency does not manage its Superfund staff effectively to match its workload, an internal government watchdog said T...

DENVER (AP) — The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has finished excavating the Thornton triceratops. The Denver Post reports (http://dpo.st/2fhDKmP ) that excavation of the pre-historic creature finished on Monday, and with about 80 percent of t...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Arctic sea ice this summer dropped to its eighth lowest level on record, new federal data show. That's far below average, but considerably above the record low set five years ago. The National Snow and Ice Data Center said T...

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Amazon has rejected the 21-foot (6.4-meter) Saguaro cactus that southern Arizona economic leaders planned to send as a gift to CEO Jeff Bezos, in a bid to attract the company's second headquarters. "Unfortunately we can't accept...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Nearly 100 foster children in Kansas have stayed overnight in the offices of contractors who administer the state's foster care system because no foster homes are available, state contractors told a meeting of the state's Child W...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police say a man under investigation by the Kansas Department of Revenue is suspected in a shooting that critically injured an employee at the agency's Wichita office. Wichita Police spokesman Charley Davidson told reporters t...

CHETOPA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a Kansas man who is suspected of growing marijuana in a park in a small town in the southeast corner of the state. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says in a news release that the 54-year-old man w...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a Manhattan man as involuntary manslaughter. The Manhattan Mercury reports that police responded to a call late Saturday and found 60-year-old Randy Abarr unconscious. He was rushed t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka man faces a sentence of up to 20.5 years in prison after he was found guilty in the stabbing death of another man. A Shawnee County jury on Monday convicted Caleb John Kanatzar of voluntary manslaughter in the death of 2...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The body of a man who police believed killed himself sat in his pickup truck in a Kansas City International Airport parking lot for eight months before being discovered and his family wants to know why it wasn't noticed s...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — James Washington came into the season as the standout receiver for No. 6 Oklahoma State. Now he has a lot of company among the Cowboys' talented group of wide receivers. Four OSU wideouts, including Washington, recorded at l...

CHICKASHA, Okla. (AP) — Police say seven officers were injured during a weekend shootout in central Oklahoma, including one who remains hospitalized. Police initially said two officers were wounded Sunday as they tried to serve a search warrant f...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An audit has found that test results were repeatedly altered for an adult basic education program at Oklahoma City Community College. The audit conducted by Oklahoma City accounting firm Crawford & Associates found six of the s...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) — The secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is in Oklahoma to meet with members of the Pawnee and Cherokee nations. Secretary Tom Price began a three-day visit to Oklahoma Tuesday as part of the f...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Democratic schoolteacher who defeated a Republican businessman in a special election for a state House seat in a traditionally GOP district is getting sworn into office. Jacob Rosecrants will take the oath of office W...

OKMULGEE, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says the Okmulgee County sheriff has asked the agency to investigate a shooting by a deputy that wounded two men at the end of police pursuit in eastern Oklahoma. The OSBI says the d...