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WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' school-choice agenda is getting a bit of a boost from the Republican tax bill, which would allow parents to use education savings accounts to pay tuition at private elementary and secondary s...

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump sent a plea Saturday for Saudi Arabia to list its massive state-run oil company, Saudi Aramco, on the New York Stock Exchange. Trump tweeted Saturday morning that he would "very much appreciate" that the S...

DENVER (AP) — The one constant in the oil and gas industry is the boom-bust cycle. Prices spike, drillers rush in. Prices drop and the drilling ends. But what if the boom doesn't come back? Some in the industry say that's the unique situation f...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — With his country spiraling into a desperate financial crisis, Venezuela's president has proposed restructuring its massive debt, leaving international investors wondering Friday whether they'll be paid and some residents e...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's state oil company says it has made a significant onshore find in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz. A statement from Petroleos Mexicanos says the field could represent total reserves of about 350 million barrels of crude e...

HOUSTON (AP) — The number of rigs exploring for oil and natural gas in the U.S. declined by 11 this week to 898. That's up from the 569 rigs that were active a year ago. Houston oilfield services company Baker Hughes said Friday that 729 rigs s...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Developers of a proposed natural gas pipeline are suing hundreds of landowners in two states to gain rights of way granted by federal regulations. Mountain Valley Pipeline lawyers filed federal court complaints in C...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A Republican state representative and county Farm Service Agency director for the U.S. Department of agriculture have been named state directors of U.S.D.A. agencies in Arkansas. The U.S.D.A. has announced that Rep. David B...

KALISPELL, Mont. (AP) — Nestled in the Pleasant Valley floodplain and flanked by rolling foothills, the fledgling creek channel navigates newly planted pods of native willow and dogwood trees. Its sculpted banks — supported by a tiered matrix of roo...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Police in Rhode Island are investigating after the mother of an 8-year-old girl found four Adderall pills inside her bag of Halloween candy. East Providence police say the woman was doing a check of the girl's candy on H...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A developmentally disabled Santa Fe woman's guardian is suing an Albuquerque group home and the state Department of Health after she was raped last summer after running away. The lawsuit alleges the state contractor operating t...

UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Twelve days after his release from prison, Richard Dale Thomas hadn't let go of the routines that got him through 2½ years of solitary confinement. Every day, 1,200 pushups. Pacing to the point of exhaustion. Keeping his di...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Four years ago, well before the furor over allegations Moscow meddled in the 2016 election that put Donald Trump in the White House, at least 195 web addresses belonging to Trump, his family or his business empire were hijacked b...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The 61 high schools that participated in the Arkansas Advanced Initiative for Math and Science program last school year produced almost half of the state's Advanced Placement math, science and English test-takers and 44 perce...

GRADY, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas death row inmate who was convicted of raping and killing a 5-year-old girl has died after being found unresponsive in his cell. Department of Corrections spokesman Solomon Graves says 57-year-old Roger Coulter was f...

KEARNEY, Neb. – Both Northwestern Oklahoma State cross country teams competed at the Central Region Championships this morning in Kearney, Nebraska, where the women finished in 32nd overall while the men came in 27th in the meet. Pacing the women t...

TULSA, Okla. – The Northwestern Oklahoma State women's basketball team opened their season in an exhibition match-up against Division I foe Oral Roberts University and were defeated by a final score of 109-60. Guard Jade Jones began her Ranger c...

KEARNEY, Neb. – Oklahoma Baptist, disappointed in a fifth-place finish at the Central Region Cross Country Meet Saturday, has an agonizing 48 hours ahead of them. At fifth place in the region, Oklahoma Baptist must wait on a NCAA committee d...

KEARNEY, Neb. – Oklahoma Baptist didn't have the finish it wanted but may have gotten a start it needed at the Central Region Men's Cross Country Meet Saturday. While the team finished 18th, Coach Mark Heard and the team made its first appearance a...

SHAWNEE – A second-half rally fell short as No. 1 Oklahoma Baptist fell, 3-2, to No. 2 Southwestern Oklahoma State in the Great American Conference Championship Final on Saturday afternoon in Shawnee. It was OBU's first trip to the GAC Final in p...

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – Southeastern struggled to find any traction early as Arkansas Tech scored the game's first 31 points and the Savage Storm would go on to fall 48-10 on Saturday afternoon in Russellville, Ark. The loss drops the Savage Storm to 6...