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In one fell swoop, the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board on Wednesday approved 73 inmates for a new type of parole intended to help alleviate the state’s overcrowded prisons. The parole process, approved by the Legislature last year, could be a firs...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The daughter of Tulsa County District Judge Sharon Holmes has been charged with stabbing Holmes in the leg. Court records show 28-year-old Adrienne Smith was charged Friday with felony assault and battery with a dangerous...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Obituaries reported the world lost an actor. But those in the bull riding community, including the mother of a famous Oklahoma bull rider, tell stories that suggest the world lost a heck of a guy. "He was a great person," Elsie...

DUNCAN, Okla. (AP) — A group of third grade girls from Comanche have been working together in friendship to help people through a hard time dealing with cancer. Brenley Green, MaKenna Kulbeth, Cianna O'Connor and Emma Milburn have been making...

DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Unlike many other rural cities, Dodge City is experiencing a strong economy that is making it an anchor in Kansas' southwest region. The city, which as long marketed its Old West ties, has in recent years completed $86...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Beto O'Rourke opened his Democratic presidential campaign this past week with a call to action on global warming that misrepresented the science. From Iowa, he claimed scientists are united in believing the planet only has a...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Emergency officials say two people, a man and a woman, are dead after a twin-engine jet crashed as it attempted to land at a small airport in northwest Oklahoma City. Oklahoma City Fire Capt. David Macy says the corporate jet...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Less than one week after being given sweeping new power over five of the state's largest agencies, new Gov. Kevin Stitt is taking advantage by appointing new board members to oversee three of them. Stitt announced on Monday...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Federal officials in Tulsa are conducting an online auction for 21 vehicles forfeited by a man who pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy and money-laundering charges. The U.S. Marshals Service and an auctioneer, Apple Towing Co.,...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A grassroots weather observation network needs more volunteers to measure precipitation in an effort that could benefit farmers and emergency management officials, organizers said. The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and...

MONTICELLO, Ark. (AP) — Authorities are investigating after a college baseball player from Oklahoma was seriously injured when he was struck by a vehicle in an apparent hit-and-run crash in Arkansas. Arkansas State Police say 20-year-old Joseph...

HEAVENER, Okla. (AP) — Authorities say a kidnapping suspect who escaped from a Missouri jail and then from an Oklahoma police car apparently stole a pickup truck and returned to Missouri. The truck was found Sunday in Pettis County, Missouri....

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Police in Oklahoma City say they have arrested three people in connection with last week's shooting death of a southeastern Oklahoma teen. Sgt. Gary Knight said Monday that investigators took three people into custody...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court is refusing to toss out a lawsuit filed by two female students alleging Kansas State University refused to investigate their rapes and other sex assaults at off-campus fraternity houses. The U.S. 10th...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas Department of Transportation worker who posted a tweet from the agency's official Twitter account criticizing President Donald Trump is no longer employed by the department, the agency said. The tweet on Sunday came...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A coalition of Kansas City-area leaders is working to reduce the impact of climate change amid reports that the region could be among the hardest hit in the nation. After an international group of scientists issued a...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Kansas' solicitor general on Monday called on a federal appeals court to reinstate the state's law requiring people to provide proof of citizenship before they can register to vote, saying problems with how it was enforced dur...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Hundreds of homes flooded in several Midwestern states after rivers breached at least a dozen levees following heavy rain and snowmelt in the region, authorities said Monday while warning that the flooding was expected to...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's nomination of a trial judge to Kansas' second-highest court appeared doomed Monday after two key Republican legislators decried past social media posts criticizing President Donald Trump and express...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Latest on a police investigation into an alleged sexual assault of a teenager participating in a legislative page program (all times local): 3:50 p.m. Oklahoma's speaker of the House says he's suspending a high school page...

EDMOND, Okla. (AP) — An attorney plans to seek a competency hearing for a 19-year-old Oklahoma murder suspect whose brother told investigators he said he killed their parents because he thought they were Satan worshippers communicating with him...

SHAWNEE, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma's oldest art gallery is commemorating its 100th birthday with a series of special exhibitions and festivities. The Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art in Shawnee is launching its centennial events with the exhibition...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Gov. Kevin Stitt has signed into law new regulations for Oklahoma's burgeoning medical marijuana industry. The Republican on Thursday signed a measure known as the "unity bill" because it's supported by various factions of the...

SALLISAW, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says a 27-year-old man has died after he approached police officers in eastern Oklahoma with a knife and they shot him. Authorities say Shawn Taylor Watie of Stillwell died Thursday...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors say an Oklahoma man was sentenced to nine years in prison for trafficking more than 20 pounds of methamphetamine. The U.S. attorney's office said in a news release that 23-year-old Guillermo D. Andrade of Oklahoma...