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MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military on Tuesday test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile and also launched drills involving missile units in Siberia. The Defense Ministry said a Topol ICBM was launched from the Kapustin Yar launch facility i...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian prosecutors have filed criminal charges against the CEO of the popular encrypted messaging app Telegram, a semi-official news agency reported Tuesday. They allege that the service, which is used to spread uncensored n...

MOSCOW (AP) — In its latest attempt to wrest control of the Internet, Russia's communications agency on Tuesday threatened to block access to Facebook if the company refuses to store its data locally. Alexander Zharov, chief of the Federal C...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — A company that wants to build and operate a large terminal to export coal from the western U.S. to Asia was denied a key permit by Washington state on Tuesday because of environmental concerns. The Department of Ecology r...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — New research aims to find out why highly endangered beluga whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet have failed to recover despite protective measures. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded more than $1.3 m...

BETHLEHM, Pa. (AP) — In a typical week, the state Department of Corrections receives a list of 1,000 inmates who need to be assigned to one of its 25 correctional facilities. The process isn't straightforward. There are nearly 100 factors that determ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The "Alternative Nobel" was given to four people Tuesday for their "courageous work" in human rights, public health and good governance. The prize foundation announced the 2017 winners as Indian human rights lawyer Colin G...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Lots of pop songs have hooks. This one has loops, too. Velcro Cos. this week released a music video with a message it hopes will stick as well as its products: "Don't Say Velcro." The video features actors portraying trademark a...

KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) — New yellow painted highway lines in the Alaska's Panhandle city of Ketchikan are crooked and the paint that's been used by state transportation officials has stained cars, officials said. Among those affected was Ketchikan Ga...

EWING, N.J. (AP) — A convenience store chain is challenging a man's claim that he found maggots in a sandwich he ordered from a store in New Jersey. Chris Garcia tells The Trentonian (http://bit.ly/2xufxRC ) he bought a buffalo chicken cheesesteak h...

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) — A former Blue Springs doctor and Boy Scout leader is being held without bond after admitting that he sexually assaulted a boy for years. The Kansas City Star reports 45-year-old Joseph Mackey, of Lee's Summit, pleaded g...

CHENEY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas woman was sentenced to five years of probation for embezzling more than $48,000 from a local newspaper where she worked. Sixty-year-old Diane Neises, of Cheney, pleaded guilty in July to felony theft and computer c...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A former Chapman basketball coach has been sentenced to more than five years in prison on two counts of sexual exploitation of a child. Mark Snider of Abilene, who was sentenced Friday, will be on lifetime supervision after r...

MAIZE, Kan. (AP) — Maize police are asking for the public's help as they continue to try and find a woman who's been missing for more than four months. Police say 30-year-old Kendra Leigh Nystrom was last seen around on the morning of May 4 when s...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man who used Facebook to try and lure girls into prostitution has been sentenced to nearly eight years in prison. Sedgwick County authorities say Jesse Duckens was arrested after a 16-year-old girl's mother went to police w...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities have filed charges in a prostitution investigation that included undercover police work at a network of illicit massage parlors in Oklahoma City and Lawton. Oklahoma County court records show pandering and c...

A frantic 911 call placed over the weekend by an Oklahoma man who discovered a 1-month-old baby abandoned on the side of a freeway was released by police Tuesday as officers continued to investigate why the boy was left behind. Roger Prater, a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma City School Board will not gather public input before deciding whether to rename three schools that are named for Confederate generals. The board on Monday adopted an agenda for its next meeting that doesn't i...