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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City police will again wear body cameras under an agreement announced Tuesday between the department and the Fraternal Order of Police. Officials say that officers are to turn on the cameras during voluntary contact w...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the murder conviction and life without parole sentence of an Enid man in the beating death of a woman he lived with. The court on Tuesday rejected appeals by 27-year-old Jason D...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A judge has rejected a new trial request by a former Tulsa police officer convicted on two misdemeanor charges in the shooting death of his daughter's boyfriend. A motion to merge the convictions into one is pending. Shannon K...

SMITHVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Fire crews are working to contain a blaze that erupted when a gas pipeline ruptured north of Kansas City, Missouri. There was no immediate word about any injuries resulting from the fire reported about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in P...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a Texas woman accused of faking a pregnancy before killing a mother and kidnapping her newborn daughter is fighting extradition to Kansas. The Sedgwick County district attorney's office said Tuesday it has b...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A former U.S. Army explosives expert has admitted in federal court that he illegally possessed grenades that authorities say were among a cache of explosives found in his Kansas home. Forty-two-year-old John Panchalk of O...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Topeka man who answered a Craigslist ad to donate sperm so two women could have a baby together is not legally the child's father and isn't required to provide financial support, a Kansas judge has ruled. The state Department f...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit filed by the Kansas state treasurer that argued the state had a right to claim ownership to savings bonds it deemed abandoned. The ruling was handed down Monday, according to The Wichita E...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Two southwest Kansas men have pleaded guilty for their roles in a hate crime against black Somali men in Dodge City. The Justice Department said 24-year-old Armando Sotello pleaded guilty Tuesday to one count of a hate crime f...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials on Tuesday announced a two-year initiative to bring high-speed internet to school districts across the state, with the federal government picking most of the potential $100 million cost. California-based n...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A man fatally shot by officers outside a suburban Kansas City retail store has been identified as a 50-year-old Texan. Police say Walter R. Echols of Cypress, Texas, was shot Sunday night outside a Wal-Mart in Olathe, Kansas, a...

GARDNER, Kan. (AP) — Motion-activated cameras intended to capture images of mountain lions in a Kansas park have instead snapped pictures of pranksters dressed as animals, monsters and Santa Claus. Police said they found the images on the two c...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas school district is sticking with a policy of telling staff not to wear safety pins in a sign of solidarity to the disenfranchised. The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/2fHyKC7 ) reports that the Shawnee Mission S...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A female student contends in a court filing Monday that Kansas State University's failure to investigate the rape of another woman allowed the same alleged assailant to sexually assault her. The accusations were levied in c...

SPENCER, Ind. (AP) — When most people retire, they expect to relax a little, take on fewer daily chores and have fewer responsibilities. That's not what happened for Jerry and Paula Perron, owners of Bittersweet Farm in Owen County. The couple m...

GALT, Calif. (AP) — California is taking its fight against global warming to the farm. The nation's leading agricultural state is now targeting greenhouse gases produced by dairy cows and other livestock. Despite strong opposition from farmers, G...

WASHINGTON (AP) — American students have strides to make when it comes to math and science, where they lag behind a solid block of East Asian countries, according to results released Tuesday from an international exam. Eighth graders in the United St...

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A southern New Mexico school district is trying to entice students to ride the bus with free televisions, drones, and tablets. KVIA-TV in El Paso, Texas reports (https://goo.gl/uWw4jS) the Las Cruces Public School District i...

EXETER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire town that said it wouldn't be decorated with holiday lights this season because of code issues with a utility now has a glimmer of hope. The Portsmouth Herald reports (http://bit.ly/2gtW08r) that Exeter town o...