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CHICAGO (AP) — A rookie bomb-sniffing dog at Chicago's Midway International Airport is having a little trouble waiting to poop in the proper place. The Chicago Sun-Times reports the dog has been pooping in the terminals and concourses. Kevin M...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A cat with an unlikely name has an important job at a training center for dogs. Support Dogs, Inc. in St. Louis took in the black and white cat over the summer and named him D-O-G (dee-OH'-jee). He's more than a mascot - officials s...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Pizza Hut is offering a $10,000 reward for information in the death of one of their drivers last month in Wichita. The company announced the reward Thursday, seeking tips in the Nov. 26 killing of Hasan Rahman. His body was f...

STAFFORD, Kan. (AP) — Police in central Kansas have a new drug detective: a pit bull who was rescued by a Texas organization and trained for law enforcement work. Kano, a 55-pound (25-kilogram) puppy, completed his first drug bust Monday for the S...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former Coffey County deputy has pleaded no contest to multiple child sex charges. Matthew Vander Linden entered the plea Thursday. He was charged with two counts each of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and criminal s...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A city of Topeka spokeswoman says the father of a black man fatally shot by police will view body camera footage from the incident Friday. City spokeswoman Molly Hadfield says a family attorney is scheduled to join Kelly White i...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The head of the University of Oklahoma's LGBTQ Alumni Society is asking the organization's 400 members to stop donating to the university until Regent Kirk Humphreys resigns from the board. OU LGBTQ Alumni Society President J...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Four employees of the Oklahoma State Department of Health sounded the first alarms about dire financial problems at the agency when they approached auditors conducting a routine review of the agency in early August, State A...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma police officer serving a 10-year prison sentence following his 2011 corruption conviction isn't entitled to a reduced term, a federal judge has ruled. In an opinion and order released Wednesday, U.S. District J...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma prosecutor decided against charging Sooners running back Rodney Anderson with sexual assault on Thursday, clearing a major cloud hanging over the team ahead of its College Football Playoff semifinal against Georgia. "...

LUTHER, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a Luther police officer was stabbed in the arm by a man he found walking alongside a road. Oklahoma County sheriff's spokesman Mark Opgrande says the officer stopped Thursday to check on the man, who first i...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A judge has denied an Oklahoma man's request for immunity from prosecution for a first-degree murder charge under the state's "stand your ground" law. The Tulsa World reports that 45-year-old William Wolverton Bridges faces c...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The man who led police on a 2½ hour police chase and standoff last month has been arrested again. Police say 25-year-old Brenton Hager was arrested Thursday morning in Oklahoma City on a complaint of unauthorized use of a mo...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma police officer has been transferred to a state prison, where officials will determine how he'll serve his 15-year sentence in the fatal shooting of his daughter's boyfriend. The Tulsa World reports that 5...

JACKSON, Tenn. – Ke'Vonshaye Stackhouse scored 17 points on 8-of-9 shooting, Ryann Goodsell poured in 16 points with nine boards as the Arkansas Tech Golden Suns basketball team (6-1) downed Lane College (1-10) 80-59 on Wednesday at the Lane G...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal judge in Philadelphia on Friday ordered the Trump administration not to enforce new rules that could significantly reduce women's access to free birth control. Judge Wendy Beetlestone issued the injunction, temporarily s...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans solidified support for their major overhaul of the nation's tax laws Friday, securing endorsements from wavering senators as they pushed to muscle their bill through Congress next week and give President Donald Trump h...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX racked up another first on Friday, launching a recycled rocket with a recycled capsule on a grocery run for NASA. The unmanned Falcon rocket blasted off with a just-in-time-for-Christmas delivery for the I...

QUANTICO, Va. (AP) — Taking aim at the credibility of the FBI, President Donald Trump unleashed a blistering attack on the bureau's leadership even as he praised state and local police officers as a bulwark against rising violence and crime. Trump d...