FORT BENNING, Georgia (AP) — Army Col. Scott Jackson reaches out and grasps the hand of a male soldier. Their fingers interlaced, Jackson talks to the soldier for a few minutes and then asks if he feels uncomfortable. The soldier's answer: "A l...

Time has not healed the Democratic party's wounds. On Election Day 2016, Democrats suffered a devastating and shocking loss. A year later, they're still sorting through the wreckage. The infighting, the divisive personalities and the questions about...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A key Oklahoma House budget panel has passed a broad range of tax increases to shore up a hole in the budget, sending a signal that House leaders could be willing to give the package a vote on the floor this week. The House b...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Longtime energy industry executive and former Republican Oklahoma Senate leader Brian Bingman says he plans to run for a seat on the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. The Republican from Sapulpa said Tuesday he would seek the p...

HENNESSEY, Okla. (AP) — After a series of small to moderate earthquakes in central Oklahoma, two companies are being told to reduce the amount of wastewater they inject into the ground. About a dozen quakes have struck just south of Hennessey, a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin has appointed Oklahoma County assistant district attorney Scott Rowland to the state Court of Criminal Appeals. Rowland has spent nearly 11 years as first assistant district attorney in Oklahoma C...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Transportation Commission has approved a work plan that calls for repairing or replacing nearly 400 county bridges and improving more than 800 miles (1,287 kilometers) of county roads over the next five years. The O...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A man and a woman have been found dead following a house fire in north Tulsa. District Fire Chief Bryan Hickerson told reporters that firefighters were called to the home about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday and found the couple inside the h...

Oklahoma went from the joy of a 2016 Final Four appearance to the misery of a 20-loss campaign last season. Now the Sooners have a chance to redeem themselves . "Last year motivates me every day," Oklahoma forward Khadeem Lattin said. "It's...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislative leaders plan to hire two attorneys to help lawmakers draft a new public school funding law and meet a court mandate because top members of the House and Senate haven't agreed on a choice. The top five R...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The Black Student Union at Kansas State University is calling for criminal charges against the 21-year-old black man who defaced his own car with racist graffiti in what he described as a Halloween prank that got out of h...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Advocates for victims of sex traffickers in Kansas say they are pleased federal prosecutors are searching for traffickers but they were upset that two traffickers sentenced in Topeka received relatively light sentences. On M...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A judge ordered the U.S. government on Tuesday to turn over some grand jury materials to a court-appointed investigator who's looking into whether secret recordings made of conversations between inmates and their attorneys at a...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas commerce secretary has ended a congressional race days after Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's office confirmed he was fired partly over questions about state contracts. Ex-Commerce Secretary Antonio Soave (...

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A new resolution says Salina city employees cannot be discriminated against because of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Salina city commissioners voted Monday to add those categories to the city's personnel manual. T...

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A Salina man who admitted killing his infant son will get a new sentencing hearing under an amended law involving how a court determines if a defendant has an intellectual disability. On Monday, 31-year-old Nicholas Corbin's s...

GARNETT, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a fired eastern Kansas jailer who is charged with sex crimes. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says 27-year-old Lexington Laiter, of Garnett, was arrested Monday. He worked at the Anderson County J...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a burning northeast Kansas home as a homicide. The Douglas County Sheriff's Office identified the victim Monday as 34-year-old Joel Wales, of Eudora. He w...

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) — The Air Force Academy says racial slurs posted outside the dorm rooms of five black students were written by one of those students. The announcement Tuesday was a jarring turn in an episode that prompted the a...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansans overwhelmingly support the death penalty, in contrast to national sentiment, months after the state executed four inmates before a lethal injection drug expired, according to a poll released Tuesday by the U...

NEW YORK (AP) — Forbes reported Tuesday that Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross exaggerated his net worth to the magazine by $2 billion. The publication cited years of internal reporting notes and conversations with Ross, an investor who has been d...

DENVER (AP) — Opponents of some Obama-era oil and gas regulations say a decision by a federal appeals court in Denver could allow those rules to go into effect temporarily, even though the Trump administration plans to revoke them. Four states, t...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Energy Department says workers have finished treating dozens of containers of radioactive waste that were inappropriately packed at one of the nation's premier nuclear weapons laboratories. It was a similar c...

VIENNA (AP) — OPEC says growth in global oil demand will steadily lessen from an annual average of 1.3 million barrels a day between 2016 and 2020, to 300,000 barrels a day by 2035-2040. But it says fossil fuels will remain the main energy source d...