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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Court of Appeals will have a new chief judge next month. The Kansas Supreme Court selected Judge Karen Arnold-Burger to serve as chief judge of the 14-member state appeals court beginning January 9. She succeeds C...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas welfare officials plan to have agency staffers perform all annual foster home inspections by midway through next year. The Department for Children and Families officials updated lawmakers Wednesday on the agency's e...

WHITE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are trying to determine what caused a Kansas grain bin to collapse and spill about 250,000 bushels of corn on the ground. The Hays Post (http://bit.ly/2h7H3cC ) reports that no one was injured when the bin gave w...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Former Baylor football coach Art Briles sued three school regents and a vice president for libel and slander Thursday, accusing them of falsely stating he knew of reported assaults and alleged gang rapes by players and didn't r...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Colleges that expel students whom they suspect of having committed sexual assault are being asked to go further by specifying the reason for expulsion on their transcripts. Victims' advocates say it's critical to ensuring that...

NEW YORK (AP) — A decades-long trend of rising life expectancy in the U.S. could be ending: It declined last year and it is no better than it was four years ago. In most of the years since World War II, life expectancy in the U.S. has inched up, t...

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia Tech researchers have found that the type of lighting used in retail display cases can affect the taste of milk. Susan Duncan is a professor of food science and technology in the Virginia Tech College of Agriculture a...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — It got so cold in Wyoming, even the Moscow Ballet couldn't move. The traveling ballet group famous for performing "The Nutcracker" this time of year couldn't start their buses Thursday morning in Casper. The temperature in the c...

BOSTON (AP) — Signs marking the eastern and western ends of the longest continuous road in the U.S. have been unveiled on both coasts. Historic U.S. Route 20 runs between Boston and Newport, Oregon. On Thursday, Massachusetts highway officials i...

WINSLOW, Maine (AP) — A horse and a camel at a Maine petting zoo have formed an unlikely friendship. The 5-year-old camel, Caesar, at the Pony X-Press Zoo in Winslow has become a guide for Dolly the horse, who is blind. The zoo's Ed Papsis tells W...

WINDSOR, Ont. – Oklahoma Baptist swimming alum Daniel Carranza Ramirez qualified Friday morning for the FINA World Swimming Championships semifinals in the 50 meter butterfly. Ramirez, who helped establish OBU as a NAIA powerhouse as a three-time N...

EDMOND, Okla. – SWOSU Women's Basketball had their three-game winning streak snapped by Oklahoma Christian, falling 94-77 Thursday night after fourth quarter woes in Edmond. Tied with OC at 60-60 with 1:15 left to play in the third quarter, the Lady...

OKLAHOMA CITY (Dec. 8, 2016) – With Oklahoma Christian nursing a three-point lead in the final seconds of the third quarter against Southwestern Oklahoma State, OC freshman guard Megan Shelton had the basketball and heard the OC bench counting d...

SEARCY – Harding made 13 3-pointers, including six from senior Will Francis, and the Bisons extended their home winning streak to 11 games with a 73-65 non-conference victory over LeMoyne-Owen on Thursday at the Rhodes-Reaves Field House. Harding imp...

NEW YORK (AP) — Together, Baker Mayfield and Dede Westbrook were practically unstoppable for Oklahoma. Mayfield is one of the most productive quarterbacks in college football and something of a magician in the pocket, escaping trouble to make s...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Bill Snyder recalled this week arguably the lowest point of his coaching career. It was nearly two decades ago, when Kansas State rolled into the Big 12 title game unbeaten and ranked No. 1. The Wildcats needed only to beat T...

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after the carcass of a wild hog was dumped in the parking lot of an Islamic center in Oklahoma. Lawton Police spokesman Sgt. Tim Jenkins says security cameras showed a person dropping the carcass a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Marshals Service says authorities in Mexico have arrested an Oklahoma man who's been missing for nearly two years after an arrest warrant was issued on sexual abuse charges. Officials say the man, who has not been f...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The state violated the rights of a convicted sex offender by holding him in jail for years without a trial under the claim that he was a sexually violent predator subject to involuntary civil commitment, the Kansas Supreme C...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two Oklahoma lawmakers say selling the Grand River Dam Authority and other assets that are not core government functions could help raise new revenue for the state. Republican Rep. Leslie Osborn of Mustang and GOP Sen. Greg T...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas high school student has filed a federal lawsuit accusing an assistant football coach of sexually harassing her. The student, who is not identified, and her mother filed the Title IX lawsuit Thursday in federal c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Senate will have to rewrite some decades-old statutes because the 40-member body will be without any lawyers during the 2017 session. The statutes needing to be recast call for a licensed attorney to serve on some c...

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy who was killed by a white supremacist at a Jewish site in suburban Kansas City will be honored in this year's Tournament of Roses Parade. Reat Underwood was shot to death along with his grandfather, W...

NEW YORK (AP) — With a DNA profile but no suspect to match in the strangling of a woman who went for a run and met a killer, authorities are looking to an emerging approach: using the DNA to look for the killer's relatives. The technique, known as f...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — For decades biology textbooks have gotten fern reproduction all wrong — at least the part accusing the ancient plants of inbreeding. Ferns have not survived millions of years by sperm and egg from the same plantlet con...