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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department is considering only partially forgiving federal loans for students defrauded by for-profit colleges, according to department officials, abandoning the Obama administration's policy of erasing that debt. U...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was a showdown 25 years in the making: With the world itching to finally get a look at classified Kennedy assassination files, and the deadline for their release just hours away, intelligence officials were still angling for a w...

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston Texans owner Bob McNair has released a second apology and is attempting to explain his comments, a day after a report revealed that he said "we can't have the inmates running the prison" during a meeting of NFL owners about p...

HONOLULU (AP) — Trapped on a storm-battered boat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean for months, Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava were just about out of food and beginning to believe they were completely out of luck when they finally saw it: a U.S. N...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Saturday the threat of nuclear missile attack by North Korea is accelerating. In remarks in Seoul with South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo at his side, Mattis accused the N...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Even without a week of practice, Mason Rudolph outshined Will Grier in the rain. Rudolph threw three touchdown passes and ran for another score to lead No. 11 Oklahoma State to a 50-39 victory over No. 22 West Virginia on S...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A full-scale replica of the Museum of the Bible's Gutenberg Gates has opened in Oklahoma City as part of a five-city tour before the museum opens in Washington, D.C. The Museum of the Bible commissioned the Gutenberg Gates for a...

OKARCHE, Okla. (AP) — A first-class relic of "native son" Stanley Rother was presented to his hometown parish during a recent much-anticipated Mass and special gathering. The relic — a piece of the priest's rib — was carried down the aisle in a rel...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Both the Oklahoma House and Senate adjourned minutes after convening with neither taking action on a $215 million budget hole. The Senate convened at 10 a.m. Saturday and immediately recessed while the House gaveled in at 11 a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The city where parking meters were born more than eight decades ago is phasing out the last of the coin-gobbling contraptions that reshaped America's downtowns in favor of computerized models seen in many other places. Parking m...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — About 75 people attended the first meeting of a group opposing bringing a Tyson processing plant to Sedgwick County. The Wichita Eagle reports Sedgwick County is one of three finalists for the plant, which the company says w...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A Lenexa woman has pleaded guilty to Medicaid fraud and has been ordered to pay $88,880 in restitution. Kansas prosecutors say 48-year-old Kerri Jo Hal pleaded guilty Thursday to two felony counts of making a false claim to the M...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police in Kansas City, Kansas, are planning a surprise for a fallen officer's son who was bullied at school after his father died. Officer Mitch Kelchen from Anamosa, Iowa, was killed in a car crash during Labor Day w...

SOLOMON, Kan. (AP) — A central Kansas woman is riding horses in an effort to raise cancer awareness. Brook Wallace, 22, of Solomon has ridden more than 50 times this month. She dedicates the rides to individuals who have cancer, survived cancer or d...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man who pleaded guilty in the death of his 7-year-old son whose body was fed to pigs wants a new trial. The Kansas City Star reports court records show 46-year-old Michael Jones will appear in court Friday seeking t...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita State police say they plan to start writing tickets — rather than issuing verbal warnings — for traffic offenses on campus. Beginning Nov. 1, bad driving habits like running stop signs will bring tickets and fines. Polic...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs officials say an unauthorized, secret waiting list for psychotherapy appointments at Omaha's VA hospital delayed care for 87 veterans this year. Letters addressed to Iowa Sens. Joni Ernst and Chu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his vice president came out this past week with initiatives that are not as big, bold or immediate as they appeared. Despite the drum-roll implied in Mike Pence's recent remarks to Christians, the U.S. i...

NEW BOSTON, Texas (AP) — A Texas prison inmate has been convicted of capital murder in the 2015 beating death of a guard who was escorting the handcuffed inmate to a cell. Billy Joel Tracy was convicted Friday in New Boston. The attack happened J...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A construction method rarely used in the United States underpins a new student housing project at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Large panels of wood and glue-laminated wooden beams from a European supplier will f...

WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AP) — When North Korea launches a ballistic missile over the Pacific, the United States top leaders turn to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Analysis by N...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Before he can focus on Bedlam, Oklahoma State coach Mike Gundy wants to eliminate some sloppy play that slowed the Cowboys in a double-digit win in rainy West Virginia. West Virginia recovered a blocked punt in the end zone f...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — For a while, it looked like No. 10 Oklahoma and Texas Tech were going to re-create their record-breaking offensive output from last year, when each team piled up 854 yards in Oklahoma's 66-59 victory. Each team scored t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says three people have been killed in crashes on state roads. The patrol says in a preliminary report that 20-year-old Emily Barrera died Sunday morning in Creek County after being ejected from her v...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The city of Lawrence will allow anyone with a proper permit to carry concealed firearms to bring weapons into public buildings starting in January. The Lawrence Journal World reports City Attorney Toni Wheeler says Lawrence h...