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GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the slayings of a Kansas couple who were killed after a carnival worker ordered their deaths as part of a fictitious carnival mafia. Rusty Frasier, 37, of A...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police are investigating the stabbing death of a man in Wichita. The incident happened around 1:20 a.m. Sunday inside a home along South Washington, police said. Officers called to the scene found a 59-year-old man with m...

BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — A small community college in northeast Kansas has settled a lawsuit accusing it of directing coaches to recruit more white athletes and subjecting Black students to excessive scrutiny such as background checks before o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The coronavirus continued its rampage through Oklahoma on Sunday with state health officials reporting an almost 10% increase in active cases. That brought the total cases of the virus that causes COVID-19 to 27,807 since the p...

All-Star guard Chris Paul is being traded from the Oklahoma City Thunder to the Phoenix Suns, where he'll play alongside one of the league's most dynamic young scorers in fellow All-Star Devin Booker, a person with knowledge of the situation said...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Louise Chawla, University of Colorado Boulder (THE CONVERSATION) As an environmental psychologist who works to improve young people's...

Voters in Oklahoma made their pick for president while holding mixed views about the country's direction, according to an expansive AP survey of the American electorate. The race between President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden...

Home Depot is reuniting with former subsidiary HD Supply, buying the company in a deal valued at about $8 billion. The acquisition will give Home Depot a stronger hand in the contractor and professional side of its business, which is booming during...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Calvin Coolidge, known by some as "Silent Cal" during his time in the White House, used his autobiography to live up to his nickname. "The words of a president," he wrote in 1929 after leaving office, "have an enormous weight and ou...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The CEOs of Facebook and Twitter are being summoned before Congress to defend their handling of disinformation in the 2020 presidential election, even as lawmakers questioning them are deeply divided over the election's integrity a...

Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney bought one of the world's oldest soccer teams on Monday and plan to document their first foray into the sport in a fly-on-the-wall TV show. In a pinch-yourself moment for success-starved fans of Welsh...

NEW YORK (AP) — As half of HGTV's "Property Brothers," Jonathan Scott is all about transforming interior spaces. Now he's revealing a massive space he'd like to transform — the Earth. "Jonathan Scott's Power Trip" is his new documentary about sol...

NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors say the man accused of punching actor Rick Moranis is a suspect in multiple other unprovoked attacks on people in New York City. At a Manhattan Criminal Court hearing on Sunday, prosecutors said Marquis Ventura, 35, is cha...