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MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — Most questions lobbed at Kansas State coach Bill Snyder during his weekly media availability had to do with his offense, running the gamut from poor play calling to lack of execution. In short, nothing that c...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — TCU coach Gary Patterson has never lost to Kansas in four Big 12 meetings. None of them have been particularly easy. There was the 20-6 victory on the road in 2012, the Horned Frogs' first year in the league, a...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — The NCAA relocated its men's basketball regional tournament to Greenville, South Carolina, on Friday after withdrawing the event from Greensboro, North Carolina, because of that state's law restricting the rights o...

TULSA, Okla. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — An attorney for an Oklahoma teenager charged with his older brother in the stabbing deaths of their parents and three siblings may try to use an insanity defense at the trial. Michael Bever, 17, has pleaded not g...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — A recent Wichita State University report says Kansas could see more than 12,500 new nonfarm jobs in the coming year. Wichita State business researchers announced that the rate of growth in nonfarm jobs in the state n...

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — A 32-year-old Missouri man faces more than two years in prison after being convicted of charges stemming from a pipe bomb explosion in Leavenworth. Simon Nigel Pohl of St. Joseph was sentenced Friday in L...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — A couple has bought a former central Kansas plantation that was once a large shipping point for fruit between the Missouri River and California. The 1,260-acre Yaggy Plantation near Nickerson was auctioned off t...

HOUSTON (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. increased by two this week to 524. A year ago, 795 rigs were active. Depressed energy prices have sharply curtailed oil and gas exploration. Houston o...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — Attorneys for a couple accused of laundering drug money for a Mexican cartel at a small southwest Kansas bank say they have negotiated a plea deal with federal prosecutors. A joint notice filed Friday by George a...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — A man already charged with killing a man connected to the shooting death of a Kansas bride has been charged in another killing. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/2dEPPxy ) reports that 27-year-old Cortez T...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — A review has found a discrepancy in the number of state tax deductions awarded to Missouri families who claimed they had stillborn babies compared with the number of fetal deaths recorded by the state h...

SHANGHAI (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — It's one of the strongest opioids in circulation, so deadly an amount smaller than a poppy seed can kill a person. Until July, when reports of carfentanil overdoses began to surface in the U.S., the substance was best k...

BANGKOK (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — Cat cafes where customers sip lattes while petting resident kitties are just opening their doors around the U.S. and Europe. But in Asia, where the first one opened more than a decade ago, the concept has moved well b...

NEW YORK (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — An egg industry group's discussions about thwarting the sale of an eggless vegan spread were inappropriate, a yearlong investigation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture has found. The investigation also determined t...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — A Virginia Beach math teacher has been accused of assault for writing on the forehead of an eighth grader in his class. A criminal complaint says 46-year-old Daniel Board grabbed the back of the boy's head, w...

ESCALON, Calif. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — Police say a 16-year-old Northern California boy has been arrested in connection with a school threat linked to the national creepy clown trend. The Modesto Bee reports (http://bit.ly/2dBcprX ) Friday that the t...

OGDEN, Utah (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — A 14-year-old junior high student has been charged for making clown-related threats against a middle school on social media. According to the Weber County Sheriff's Office, the Rocky Mountain Junior High School was a...

STOCKHOLM (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — When the young Australian cervical cancer patient learned she had to lose her womb in order to survive, she proposed something audacious to the doctor who was treating her: She asked if she could have a womb t...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — The deaths of two 13-year-old boys in Park City may be connected to a new synthetic drug that was also found at Prince's estate, an investigation that comes as law enforcement struggles to keep up with e...

LANSING, Mich. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — Michigan health officials say there have been 19 Detroit-area deaths since July that could be related to carfentanil (kahr-FEHN'-tuh-nihl), a deadly painkiller used to tranquilize elephants. The state's Human S...

WASHINGTON (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — The U.S. bluntly accused Russia on Friday of hacking American political sites and email accounts in an effort to interfere with the upcoming presidential election. In a one-two punch, the United States also directly a...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — Packers tight end Jared Cook got an unappetizing surprise in his order of chicken wings last week — a fried chicken head. Cook said he found the head Tuesday as he was at home, eating a carry-out order from...

NEW YORK (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — Artist Pedro Reyes thinks American politics are pretty darn terrifying, especially this election year, and he wants to scare the wits out of you with his "Doomocracy" exhibition. Alternately called "The Haunted House o...

AUBURN, Mass. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — Police in Massachusetts say they plan to charge a father who wore a scary clown mask and followed his child's school bus. Auburn police say some middle-school-age children were so scared that they hid under a b...

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP, Oct. 7, 2016) — Police in a southern New Mexico city are asking residents not to dress up as clowns and carry baseball bats around town amid a national "scary clown" craze. The Roswell Police Department said they have received s...