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SAPULPA, Okla. (AP) — The U.S. Commerce Department is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the city of Sapulpa for improvements to its water system. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says the improved infrastructure will support business development and...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — As a cat lover, the story on her local news about a tiger cub that had been rejected by its mom hooked Terry Bronson almost immediately. Zoya, a Siberian tiger cub born at the Philadelphia Zoo, was motherless. The news report...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — If you work for Tulsa-area businessman Eddy Gibbs you learn pretty quickly to never be shocked. "I was surprised when Eddy called and told me he bought a boat," said Jon Davidson, vice president of operations for Shangri-La...

GERONIMO, Okla. (AP) — A 1-year-old Texas boy and a 31-year-old Oklahoma woman died of injuries suffered in a head-on collision in southwestern Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the boy, whose name wasn't released, from Arlington, Texas,...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation is offering a $10,000 reward for information about the unsolved slaying of a couple in northeastern Oklahoma. The OSBI says the reward is "for information that helps develop new,...

GARDEN CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas appeals court has overturned the child-endangerment conviction of a man found guilty of locking his two toddlers in a room for 14 hours with their clothing and bedding soaked in their bodily waste. The Wichita...

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — Two people are OK after escaping an early-morning fire in a Kansas suburb of Kansas City, thanks to the fast actions of a person passing by. The fire broke out early Saturday at a home in Shawnee. Fire officials say a person...

WINFIELD, Kan. (AP) — A train-themed restaurant is turning a small southern Kansas town into a dining destination. Shindigs Bar and Grill in Winfield has been nominated this year for a Kansas Restaurant and Hospitality Association Award in the...

MARION, Kan. (AP) — A rural central Kansas school district has stopped letting high school seniors personalize their parking spaces after one student painted his spot with a gay pride rainbow flag that was immediately vandalized. The school board...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The man killed when a trench collapsed in the Kansas town of Bel Aire has been identified. The Wichita Eagle reports that the victim was 29-year-old Jesus Foster. He was identified by family members. The collapse happened...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State University has hired a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga administrator to fill a position created over the summer after a noose was found hanging from a tree. Bryan Samuel has been selected as chief...

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump's first Christmas Eve in office was a busy one that unfolded like this: tweet against perceived adversaries, cheer U.S. troops spending the holidays overseas, play golf, chat with children anxious to k...

STERLING, Va. (AP) — Two Virginia sheriff's deputies were shot and wounded Sunday while responding to a domestic dispute in northern Virginia, authorities said. The injuries were serious but not expected to be life-threatening. The dispute...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Michael O. "Mo" Hartley built the archaeology program at Old Salem from the ground up by looking at it from the ground down. In his 47 years as an archaeologist, Hartley unearthed not only numerous artifacts but also...

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Gregg Martinez, the soul-singing bus driver from Opelousas, has enjoyed some high-profile fans in his 42 years in music. In the 1980s, one woman couldn't stop clapping and smiling during a casino show in Atlantic City, NJ....

HUEYTOWN, Ala. (AP) — If Selina Dailey can't give you Christmas spirit, no one can. Selina is a bell ringer for the Salvation Army at the Hueytown Walmart. And she sings as much as she rings. "I ring and sing, six days a week," Selina said. "It's...

ATLANTA (AP) — A Democratic congressional candidate outside Philadelphia calls the Republican tax overhaul a "cynical bill" that will redistribute wealth upward. One of her counterparts in California dismisses estimates of tax savings for most...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has full confidence in his new FBI director despite a series of attacks on the impartiality of his soon-to-retire deputy, a White House adviser said Sunday. Trump is "very pleased" with Director Chris Wray...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Supreme Court has overturned a lower court ruling that hundreds of restaurants in the state overcharged customers for mixed drinks. Lawsuits filed in 2011 by Tom Erbar and John Truel alleged restaurants...

EL DORADO, Kan. (AP) — Two higher education institutions in Kansas are partnering allow students to get a degree in drone-flying. Butler Community College announced on Tuesday its partnership with Kansas State University to offer an associate's...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A minister from Kansas City, Kansas, is soaring to the top of the gospel music charts after a chance encounter at a national worship event with a national gospel performer. Bishop Cortez Vaughn is the founder and senior...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas City's Secret Santa is at it again, this time focusing his annual good cheer on Kansas' capital city. A reporter for the Kansas City Star tagged along recently as Secret Santa followed his long tradition of handing out...

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. (AP) — As the Environmental Protection Agency considers whether a site contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals is one of the nation's worst, development continues unabated behind it and a large land sale has occurred across t...

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Sumiko Goeku was barely 7 when her aunt carried her on her back into the ocean, summoned strength to tow her to deep water, then pushed her away and left her to drown. One might easily conclude that the child's aunt must have...