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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A commission established by Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly in response to the mass civil unrest over racial injustice earlier this year is urging state lawmakers to ban officers from entering a home without announcing their presence, b...

Ray Bellia had a good business before the coronavirus pandemic. He topped $4 million in annual sales from his New Hampshire store that specialized in protective gear for police. Then he got a call from a buyer with the state of Massachusetts asking i...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress passed a two-day stopgap spending bill Friday night, averting a partial government shutdown and buying yet more time for frustratingly slow endgame negotiations on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package. T...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Contradicting his secretary of state and other top officials, President Donald Trump on Saturday suggested without evidence that China — not Russia — may be behind the cyberattack against the United States and tried to minimize its...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- The 2021 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race will be about 140 miles shorter than normal as a result of complications stemming from the coronavirus pandemic. Race officials announced Friday that teams will no longer embark on a 1,000-mi...

The guy with a swoosh on his shirt and a Tiger head cover on his driver looked pretty good. So did Tiger Woods. Charlie Woods, the 11-year-old son of the 15-time major champion, made his national TV debut Saturday in the PNC Championship. And...

Woods County Undersheriff Keith Dale has been named as the lead defendant in a civil lawsuit filed in federal court. Michael David Zimmerman, the plaintiff, is alleging that his civil rights were violated by falsifying of an affidavit that led to...

Center for Independent Journalism Members of the State Board of Education have voted to suspend school A-F report cards for another year, but will require schools to administer state tests to provide some level of public reporting on how students...

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Oklahoma will returning to the stadium where the Sooners just won their sixth Big 12 championship in a row to play SEC runner-up Florida in the Cotton Bowl on Dec. 30. The only other time Oklahoma and Florida played each o...

Tulsa (2-3, 0-1) vs. Memphis (5-3, 1-0) FedExForum, Memphis, Tennessee; Monday, 8 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Memphis looks for its fifth straight win over Tulsa at FedExForum. The last victory for the Golden Hurricane at Memphis was a 74-72 win on Feb....

CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline jumped 4 cents a gallon over the past two weeks to $2.26. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey said Sunday that a rise in crude oil prices spurred the i...

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Kansas prison officials say a twelfth inmate with COVID-19 has died. The state Corrections Department said Saturday that a 62-year-old man who had been held at the Hutchinson Correctional Facility died Friday. He had been h...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robert S. Colter, University of Wyoming (THE CONVERSATION) Depression is on the rise. A study conducted by the World Health...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As new daily cases of the coronavirus have surged in Oklahoma, Gov. Kevin Stitt is starring in a promotional video encouraging people to visit. The Oklahoma State Department of Health on Sunday reported 4,970 new cases and 23 d...

DENVER (AP) — On a frigid December night, Michael Cawthra prepared to embody the spirit of Christmas as he slipped into his plush, red coat with the white, furry trim and the matching red cap. The 66-year-old retired elementary school teacher became...

JEAN LAFITTE, La. (AP) — A group that has rescued and replanted more than 20,000 Louisiana irises since 2017 is holding bring-your-own-shovel events this winter to help save Louisiana's state wildflower. The Louisiana Iris Conservation Initiative was...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A lawsuit filed by Wichita's mayor against three GOP officials who were behind a smear campaign against the mayor will be allowed to move forward. The lawsuit is related to an ad published on YouTube during the mayoral e...

SAN RAMON, Calif. (AP) — More than 1 million people have passed through U.S. airport security checkpoints in each of the past two days in a sign that public health pleas to avoid holiday travel are being ignored, despite an alarming surge in C...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Washington negotiators, propelled by a late-night agreement on the last major obstacle to a COVID-19 economic relief package, said a Sunday agreement is all but inevitable to deliver long-overdue pandemic aid of almost $1 t...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — During a year when many feel disconnected and technology is the only thing keeping people together, Knoxvillian Jenny Sich's app Cardlet is rekindling relationships. Using the Cardlet app, senders can mail high-quality, p...

GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) — Seventy-five endangered sea turtles are being treated in Mississippi and Louisiana after being rescued from New England beaches where they washed up, injured and sick from the cold. They're Kemp's ridley sea turtles, the world'...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's largest city is removing invasive trees from one of its public spaces to restore views of the Fore River. Portland is taking away the Norway maple trees from Western Promenade. The removal of the trees will also a...