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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Once again, Lawrence's most famous historic event makes an appearance in popular culture. William Quantrill's attack on Lawrence makes a brief appearance in the extremely popular video game "Red Dead Redemption 2," a w...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — It's been nearly five months since the episode of celebrity Chef Gordon Ramsay's "24 Hours to Hell and Back" featuring Wichita's Fetch Bistro aired. And since that day, when the national spotlight landed on the dog-friendly r...

CLAREMORE, Okla. – The Rogers State women's basketball team ended its three-game losing streak with a dominating 85-47 win over Randall on Friday (Dec. 14) at the Claremore Expo Center. The Hillcats (4-6) pulled away with a 25-7 scoring advantage i...

CLAREMORE, Okla. – Sophomore forward Brewster Peacock went for a career-high 25 points and 10 rebounds to lift the Rogers State men's basketball team to a 78-65 victory over Randall on Friday (Dec. 14) on Claremont Elementary School Day at the C...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A 19-year-old former University of Tulsa student has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting three women on campus. Zach Ryan Martin pleaded guilty Thursday to four counts of sexual b...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A Saudi Arabian man has pleaded guilty in an Oklahoma City federal court to fraud for failing to disclose that he attended an al-Qaida terrorist training camp in Afghanistan before entering the U.S. Court documents filed F...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City's new streetcar system has opened to the public, and rides are free for now. Local public school student leaders and city and state officials were among the first passengers Friday after a ribbon-cutting c...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Gov.-elect Kevin Stitt's latest cabinet-level appointments are the first holdovers from the outgoing administration. The Republican on Friday reappointed Maj. Gen. Michael Thompson as adjutant general of the Oklahoma N...

MIAMI, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says a Missouri man has been found dead in far northeastern Oklahoma. The OSBI said Friday that the body of 24-year-old Tyler Applebee was found Wednesday by hunters near the former t...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas clinics still don't know whether it will be legal for them to offer telemedicine abortions in January even though a state-court judge on Friday derided an upcoming ban as an "air ball" that can't stop doctors from p...

OZARKS, Mo. (AP) — Members of a southwest Missouri family have been caught after a lengthy investigation into the illegal killing of hundreds of deer, in what state conservation agents called one of the largest poaching cases in state history. D...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Election officials in Kansas counties don't believe voter fraud is a problem in the state, according to a survey of local election officials released Friday that counters Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's unsupported c...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Another Kansas lawmaker is switching from the Republican to the Democratic party. Outgoing Rep. Joy Koesten, of Leawood, announced Thursday that she's changing her party affiliation. Koesten wrote that she "just can't stomach t...

NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — A bomb threat forced the evacuation of the Sandy Hook Elementary School on Friday, a day of memorial services and moments of silence to mark the sixth anniversary of the massacre of 20 first-graders and six educators. T...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Heather Honore Goltz, University of Houston-Downtown and Matthew Lee Smith, Texas A&M University (THE CONVERSATION) Humans are sexual...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California moved Friday to eliminate climate-changing fossil fuels from its fleet of 12,000 transit buses, enacting a first-in-the-nation mandate that will vastly increase the number of electric buses on the road. The Califo...

NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors are reportedly investigating the finances of President Donald Trump's inaugural committee and whether foreigners contributed to its events using straw donors. The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday that p...

As he considers running for president, Joe Biden is talking with friends and longtime supporters about whether, at 76, he's too old to seek the White House, according to several sources who have spoken with the former Democratic vice president. The...

PENHOOK, Va. (AP) — When the certified letter from Farm Credit of the Virginias arrived, Johnny Angell wasn't surprised. The struggling tobacco farmer, battling a changed industry and failing health, knew he'd fallen behind on payments. The l...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is racing to avoid a partial government shutdown next Friday over President Donald Trump's border wall. But you wouldn't know it by the schedule, as lawmakers left town waiting for the White House's next move. The House is...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for President Donald Trump filed papers on Friday asking that a lawsuit accusing the president of profiting from his office be taken out of the hands of a Maryland federal judge and sent to a federal appeals court. Trump's...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The United States said Friday it has sanctioned three people over their roles in South Sudan's five-year civil war, saying it will continue to target those who "profit off the misery and suffering of the South Sudanese people." A...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Just 7 years old, Jackeline Caal was picked up by U.S. authorities with her father and other migrants this month in a remote stretch of New Mexico desert. Some seven hours later, she was put on a bus to the nearest Border Patrol s...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas' predominantly Republican Legislature is preparing to take up new abortion restrictions when lawmakers convene next month, even as the state's past efforts to restrict the procedure remain caught up in legal f...

A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out. Here are the real facts: ___ CLAIM:...