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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican leaders in the Oklahoma House and Senate say they're surprised that Gov. Mary Fallin vetoed a budget plan to raid cash reserves and further cut state agency spending. Fallon's veto late Friday underscored the o...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group of Oklahoma seniors and adults with disabilities who receive in-home state services to keep them out of nursing homes has filed a federal lawsuit against the two agencies that fund the programs. The lawsuit was filed F...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A Hutchinson man has died in a crash in central Kansas that happened as he was being chased by a sheriff's deputy. The Wichita Eagle reports that the Friday night crash killed 25-year-old Angel Montiel. Officials say M...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers from across the political spectrum say they'll push to fix the state's culture of secrecy after a newspaper highlighted alarming levels of opacity in state and local government. Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer pledged last w...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal agency and Kansas are at odds over whether the state took nearly $18 million in Medicaid funds that it shouldn't have. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General says Kansas o...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas says its unemployment rate dropped to 3.6 percent in October, but the state continued to see a decline in the number of non-farm jobs over the previous year. The state Department of Labor reports that the seasonally a...

SALINA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Wesleyan University has donated Cold War-era spy equipment to the Kansas Aviation Museum. The school said this week that David Silverman, associate professor of communication at Kansas Wesleyan, delivered a 1950s aerial r...

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — An advanced U.S. weather satellite designed to improve the accuracy of extended forecasts has been launched into polar orbit from California. The Joint Polar Satellite System-1 lifted off from Vandenberg A...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia has become the first state to adopt mandatory standards for computer-science education. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports (http://bit.ly/2zLOnqh ) that the state Board of Education unanimously approved the new s...

TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — It's been 22 years since Bosnia's bloody 1992-95 war ended, yet the remains of numerous victims of genocide and war crimes still await identification. Forensic anthropologist Dragana Vucetic spends her working h...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — A young camel named Scooby is back at home after going on a 90-minute jaunt that blocked traffic and provided an uncommon photo opportunity for motorists in Ohio. The Blade reports 1-year-old Scooby escaped from his fenced-in h...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Oklahoma Baptist finished the Mizzou Invitational Saturday with six new top five times, including two new No. 1 marks, for NCAA Division II. For the three-day meet, OBU leaves with 13 top five and six new No. 1 times for the d...

COLUMBIA, Mo. – Oklahoma Baptist capped off the three-day Mizzou Invitational with a pair of new top five times for NCAA Division II. OBU ended the meet with five new top five times in Division II, including three No. 1 marks. The 400 free relay t...

Henderson State spent three days in San Antonio, Texas with the Red Wave men's and women's swim teams claiming the 2017 Trinity University Tiger Invitational Meet. The Red Wave women came from behind on the final day of competition to overcome host...

The Big 12 already has a higher percentage of bowl-eligible teams than any other conference. Now the Big 12 gets one more weekend to find out if the league can add to that and make it eight out of 10 teams in bowl games. Plus, No. 3 Oklahoma needs an... Full story

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Baker Mayfield knows full well by now that the television cameras are always on him, part of the gig when you're the starting quarterback at perennial powerhouse Oklahoma. Not to mention the Heisman Trophy front-runner. The down... Full story

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Officials with a water district downstream from Lawrence are concerned about the short notice they received regarding the city's release of nitrogen-contaminated water into the Kansas River. The Lawrence Journal-World reports t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Some Kansas police departments do not identify officers involved in fatal shootings, and body camera footage from the incidents may never become public. Records in unsolved criminal cases can remain closed indefinitely, even to v...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Beverly Dow remembers the call from child welfare. "Did my son-in-law kill my daughter?" she asked, bracing herself. No, was the response. But her five grandchildren were being starved to death. Dow picked them up and brought t... Full story

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Although happy to have escaped it, Glenn Huffman couldn't watch what was happening to his ship without feeling his heart sink. "I heard someone say 'there she goes' and we all looked," he told the Tulsa World . From where they w...

EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey has recorded two earthquakes that struck near a central Oklahoma town. Both temblors hit just east of the Oklahoma City suburb of Edmond early Sunday. The first quake had a preliminary magnitude of 3...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic-eyed face of evil across America after orchestrating the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969, d...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska regulator is set to decide whether to approve the proposed route of the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline through the state. The decision Monday could have a big impact on whether TransCanada Corp. decides to p...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — It's hard to say whether businessman Kyle Graves hit rock bottom when he shot himself in the ankle so emergency room doctors would feed his opioid habit or when he broke into a safe to steal his father's cancer pain medicine....

A look at some of the key business events and economic indicators upcoming this week: ECONOMIC BAROMETER A measure of the U.S. economy's future health is expected to have improved last month. Economists predict that the Conference Board will report M...