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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The number of voters in Oklahoma who left their presidential ballot blank or wrote in a candidate nearly doubled in the 2016 election compared with 2012, according to data from the Oklahoma State Election Board. About 15,930 v...

WICHITA FALLS, Texas (AP) — Workers have begun surveying private land in North Texas along the Red River as part of a federal review that's drawn heavy criticism from property owners who say the government is trying to seize their land. The W...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — University of Oklahoma President David Boren says a student involved in a racist incident at the University of Pennsylvania "is no longer enrolled" at OU. Boren said in a statement Tuesday that the university has "zero t...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Planned Parenthood opened an abortion clinic in the Oklahoma City area on Tuesday, becoming the second provider in the last two months to open one in or near Oklahoma's largest city. The new Planned Parenthood Great Plains c...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has agreed to spend 50 years in prison after pleading no contest to charges that he fatally stabbed a 6-year-old girl, critically injured her sister and raped their mother. The 47-year-old man, who is related to t...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Richard Myers, a retired four-star Air Force general and former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, will be Kansas State University's president as it wrestles with budget problems and the possibility that students, staff and visito...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — State Question 777, the failed ballot measure on embedding rights to farmers and ranchers in the state constitution, divided Oklahoma along geographic lines. County-by-county results show the measure had strong support in w...

NORTH ENID, Okla. (AP) — Chisholm Public Schools child nutrition employees get to work with a chef to improve their food service skills. Through the USDA-sponsored "Cooking for Kids" program, schools applied to have a chef come to their cafeterias s...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A top Texas official says it's "possible" oil and gas wastewater being injected deep underground can cause earthquakes. The statement by Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton signals a small but potentially key shift in d...

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Microsoft has announced that it will purchase 178 megawatts of production from a wind farm under construction near Dodge City. The Wichita Eagle (http://bit.ly/2gdpTwL ) reports that the purchase from Bloom Wind will be a p...

ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — The quest for eternal youth never gets old. By extension, companies making progress on developing anti-aging treatments always have been very popular with deep-pocketed investors. The latest focus on making people healthier a...

Three days into his carjacking trial in 2005, James Ochoa faced a daunting choice: Risk spending the rest of his life in prison if convicted by a California jury or plead guilty and be released in two years. Ochoa, then 20 and on probation for drug...

WASHINGTON (AP) — With two months left in President Barack Obama's term, his administration issued a rule Tuesday intended to clamp down on oil companies that burn off natural gas on public lands. The new rule seeks to reduce waste and harmful m...

NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook is under fire for failing to rein in fake and biased news stories that some believe may have swayed the presidential election. Its predicament stems from this basic conundrum: It exercises great control over the news its u...

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say a woman who asked them if it was legal to keep tigers at home in rural Nevada was arrested after police found three of the animals in her backyard. The Nye County sheriff's office says 34-year-old Trisha Meyer had c...

CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. (AP) — A bus driver for an upstate New York school district is in trouble for allowing students who would have voted for Donald Trump to exit the vehicle before children who would've voted for Hillary Clinton. The Canandaigua (k...

DALLAS (AP) — There's a new member of the Bush family: a rescue puppy. George W. Bush says he and his wife, Laura Bush, visited the Jan Rees-Jones Animal Care Center in Dallas last week just to thank employees for their work, but they ended up l...

SAITAMA, Japan (AP) — While much of the world anxiously awaits what happens under U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, one factory manager in Japan is all smiles. Ogawa Studio, the only manufacturer of rubber masks in Japan, is working feverishly to c...