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IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Bedlam rivalry between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State is moving to its earliest date in more than a decade as the Big 12 tries to avoid a quick rematch in the return of its championship game in 2017. The Sooners and Cowboys w...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The University of Oklahoma's 2017 football schedule includes six home games. OU opens the season Sept. 2 hosting Texas-El Paso, followed by a Sept. 9 game at Ohio State. The Sooners host Tulane on Sept. 16 and travel to Baylor o...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State 2017 football schedule has six home games that include Oklahoma visiting Stillwater. The season opens Sept. 2 at home against Tulsa, followed by trips to South Alabama on Sept. 9 and Pittsburgh on Sept. 1...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out a law requiring abortion clinics to have doctors with admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, saying efforts to portray the measure as protecting women's health are a "guise." T...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture says Oklahoma's cotton crop is rebounding from several years of drought. Oklahoma Cotton Council executive director Harvey Schroeder tells The Journal Record (http://bit.ly/2hpAlS0 ) the s...

OWASSO, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma couple has been arrested in what a police officer calls the worst case of child abuse he's seen. Police arrested 25-year-old Kevin Fowler and 24-year-old Aislyn Miller on Friday at an urgent care center in Owasso o...

HOUSTON (AP) — Houston-based Patterson-UTI Energy plans to acquire Seventy Seven Energy in a nearly $1.8 billion stock deal. The proposed merger was announced Monday night. A statement from Patterson and Oklahoma City-based Seventy Seven Energy s...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has approved the issuance of $480 million in bonds to fund construction of several turnpikes across the state. The state's highest court affirmed the validity of the bond issue Tuesday in a petition w...

SHARON SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) — Federal workplace safety officials are investigating a western Kansas oil field explosion that injured five workers, two of them critically. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration s...

EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) — A former Emporia State University assistant professor has refiled a federal discrimination lawsuit against the university and several administrators, and his wife has filed a separate lawsuit also claiming the school d...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A former employee at a bank in Great Bend has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $73,600 from that bank. KAKE-TV (http://bit.ly/2hp8bXu ) reports that 19-year-old Kaden Herman pleaded guilty on Monday to one count of e...

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas woman who once was listed as the world's oldest person to receive a college degree at the age of 95, has died. Nola Ochs died Friday at a senior living home in Dodge City at the age of 105. Her funeral is scheduled fo...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Lawrence school board abruptly adjourned a meeting amid a disruption sparked by frustration over the district's handling of a teacher accused of making racist comments during class. The Lawrence Journal-World (...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Elected leaders at the University of Kansas are voicing opposition to guns on campus. The Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/2gCSOeg ) reports that the University Senate said it's opposed "in the strongest possible terms" t...

BLEVINS, Ark. (AP) — The Arkansas NAACP and several residents are calling for the resignation of a school board member in eastern Arkansas after photos surfaced of him at a Halloween party in blackface while holding a sign referring to the Black L...

BERRYVILLE, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas sheriff's office paid hackers the equivalent of $2,400 to regain access to hijacked computer files. Carroll County Sheriff's Office Lt. Daniel Klatt said the department's system was infected Dec. 5 with r...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The self-driving car project that Google started seven years ago has grown into a company called Waymo, signaling its confidence that it will be able to bring robot-controlled vehicles to the masses within the next few years. "...

WASHINGTON (AP) — All new cars and light trucks would be able to talk wirelessly with each other, with traffic lights and with other roadway infrastructure under a rule the Transportation Department proposed Tuesday. Officials say the technology hold...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Monsanto Co. shareholders on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a $57 billion merger with Bayer AG, a deal that would combine two of the world's biggest agricultural companies. But the path toward securing regulatory approval may be r...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Through a dozen witnesses on Tuesday, federal prosecutors reconstructed the activities of Dylann Roof in the months leading up to night he went to a black Charleston church and shot nine members to death during a Bible study s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Is hydraulic fracturing — better known as fracking — safe, as the oil and gas industry claims? Or does the controversial drilling technique that has spurred a domestic energy boom contaminate drinking water, as environmental group...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Energy Department said Tuesday it won't provide the names of staffers who worked on climate policy or other issues to President-elect Donald Trump's transition team, even as it pledges to cooperate with the incoming administrati...

CORONADO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday asked President Barack Obama to permanently ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in the state before he leaves office. If Obama agrees, the edict would set up a potential showdown w...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Scores of ones and zeroes stolen from addresses mounted on the homes of Philadelphia residents have been returned. The news website Billy Penn reports that a white trash bag containing 83 metal address markers was left Monday n...

WESTLAND, Mich. (AP) — A suburban Detroit family is conceding that it can't match the neighbors' holiday display. The Detroit News reports (http://detne.ws/2gTSUKT ) that Jami Kelly used plywood and a few strings of white lights to form the word "...