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SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) — Inside a hotel ballroom near the nation's capital, a U.S. Army officer with battlefield experience told 120 state and local election officials that they may have more in common with military strategists than they might t...

MUIR WOODS NATIONAL MONUMENT PARK, Calif. (AP) — A huge redwood tree fell and killed a man visiting Muir Woods National Monument in California on Christmas Eve, authorities said Thursday. Subhradeep Dutta, 28, of Edina, Minnesota, died while w...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Thursday: Amazon.com Inc., up $79.56 to $ 1,868.77 Retailers rose following a report that showed a surge in last-minute online holiday shopping. Apple Inc., up $5.64 to $289.91 The...

CASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming Gov. Mark Gordon's office is taking public comment on a proposed executive order aimed at protecting migration corridors that are used by mule deer and antelope. Wyoming is home to the world's longest intact mule deer a...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — Police on Thursday arrested a 26-year-old man accused of skateboarding on a Louisiana interstate bridge and a 34-year-old woman accused of taking a video of it later posted on Facebook. Louisiana State Police arrested L...

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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A group seeking to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Oklahoma refiled their petition on Friday after facing a fierce backlash over what the plan might do to the state's burgeoning medical marijuana industry. Two Oklah...

ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Burrow needed a year under his belt, along with a coaching change and a new wide-open offense, to really find his way at LSU. Jalen Hurts didn't have even that long to adjust, which makes his lone season at Oklahoma even more r...

BAXTER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) — An Oklahoma man is accused of abducting a woman and forcing her to dance at a Kansas strip club, then taking the money she earned at the club. Gary Ballard, 29, of Tulsa, is charged with aggravated human trafficking and a...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A person of interest was in custody Friday in the shooting of a 1-year-old child who was struck by gunfire that was fired into an SUV, Tulsa police said. The 1-year-old was in critical condition after the shooting Thursday, a...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — More than a dozen people were injured Friday when a nitrogen line ruptured at the Beechcraft aircraft manufacturing facility in Wichita, Kansas, causing part of the building to collapse, authorities said. Daniel Wegner, deputy f...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — One of the Kansas Legislature's most conservative members and strongest abortion opponents is retiring in next month. Republican state Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook of Shawnee announced Friday that she will step down Jan. 16, just d...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Ethics Commission says a former Democratic leader who was an executive for one of the state's most populous counties broke campaign finance laws by using political contributions to pay personal cell phone b...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A paroled killer and a woman whom he had lived with have been arrested in the death of the man's girlfriend. KAKE-TV reports that jail records show that 39-year-old Ahmad Bey and 34-year-old Vanessa Waner were each booked e...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita church says a baby Jesus statue has been stolen — again — from an outdoor nativity scene. The Church of the Blessed Sacrament says in a Facebook post Thursday that it would like the statue back "no questions asked...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe's plan to grow hemp became one of the first in the nation to get federal approval on Friday. The Department of Agriculture announced that the Santee Sioux were among three tribes and three s...

There has been no shortage of big news over the last decade. Spanning the globe, some stories were expected while others caught the world off guard. Some were so massive they were visible from space, captured through state-of-the-art imaging...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Where will the world's attention turn in 2020? The United States' impeachment trial of Donald Trump and the United...

MIDDLETOWN, Md. (AP) — The average number of bushels of corn per acre is between 180 and 250. This year, Drew Haines of Middletown yielded over 422 bushels of corn per acre, beating Maryland's state corn yield record and winning first place in the Na...

Anyone under 21 can no longer legally buy cigarettes, cigars or any other tobacco products in the U.S. The new law enacted last week by Congress also applies to electronic cigarettes and vaping products that heat a liquid containing nicotine. The...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. (THE CONVERSATION) For years, my husband would say after we returned from the church, "I thought the sermon was good." To that, I...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri officials have granted licenses to 60 of the more than 500 companies that applied to grow marijuana for the state's fledgling medical cannabis industry. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services a...

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has announced plans for a new outpatient medical clinic in Fort Smith, which is expected to create about 100 jobs. The agency announced plans Thursday for the new clinic, which will h...

NEW YORK (AP) — This year, the germs roared back. Measles tripled. Hepatitis A mushroomed. A rare but deadly mosquito-borne disease increased. And that was just the United States. Globally, there was an explosion of measles in many countries, an u...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Michael R. Nadorff, Mississippi State University and Mary E. Dozier, Mississippi State University (THE CONVERSATION) Many people love...