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RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge has thrown out a defamation lawsuit a Western art collector filed against a prestigious auction house and the owner of a Reno gallery who claimed an early 20th century cowboy painting he sold for $750,000 was a...

BOLIVAR, Mo. (AP) — Missouri officials have identified three Kansas City-area teens killed in the crash of a church van that injured 10 others. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Friday's crash happened when a rear tire of the van blew out,...

PONCA CITY, Okla. (AP) — The National Transportation Board says a small airplane that crashed in northern Oklahoma, killing four members of a Kansas family and a family friend, was seen climbing slowly before it went down in a soybean field. The...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs didn't violate privacy laws when it allowed medical aides to search patients' records on their cellphones, according to a state investigation. Mark Gower, the state's chief informatio...

FRIENDSHIP, Okla. (AP) — Authorities in southwestern Oklahoma say a volunteer firefighter has died while battling a house fire. The Jackson County sheriff's department says 54-year-old Madison "Maddy" Lee Clinton Jr. was killed while battling a...

LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — A new generation of crocheters in Lawton is ensuring the crafting art does not fall by the wayside. Michell Rosario, activities coordinator at the Owens Multi-Purpose Center, has hosted a twice-weekly crocheting class since...

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City high school baseball star has been paralyzed from the waist down after a diving accident. The Kansas City Star reports that Nolan Sprague was hurt Thursday. Mill Valley High School baseball coach Jeff...

LA CYGNE, Kan. (AP) — Officials say a man has drowned at a private lake in eastern Kansas. The Kansas parks department reports 55-year-old Melvin Eugene Stierwalt, of Kansas City, Kansas, drowned Wednesday at Tanglewood Lake near La Cygne....

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — On stage, Emma Blakley feels free - free from the past, free from the future, free to focus on nothing else but her dance. "It's a time when you're just purely right there and you're with an audience that's also right there...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Bullets screamed by as the wooden DH-4 airplane skimmed the top of the French Argonnes forest in 1918. The airplane carried vital ammunition and supplies for the Lost Battalion — a group of more than 500 men in the United Sta...

BOLIVAR, Mo. (AP) — Three teenagers from Kansas were killed and 10 other people were injured Friday after a church van heading for an outing crashed in southwestern Missouri. The wreck happened around 10:40 a.m. on Missouri Route 13, five miles...

DILLEY, Texas (AP) — A little boy with closely cropped hair was sitting quietly and grinning when he suddenly sprang to his feet and tried to swipe a brownie off a nearby tray. He couldn't quite reach it, though, instead sending crumbs and napkins...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas woman who already was celebrating the return of one cat that disappeared three weeks ago after an explosion at her home says she's received a second "miracle." The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Ashley Nadeau...

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — An athlete died a day after he was pulled from the water during the Boulder Ironman 70.3 triathlon in Colorado. It was the third death in four years of Ironman competitions in Boulder. A witness, physician Donald Cain from...

INMAN, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a fireworks company employee was burned while disposing of fireworks. The Hutchinson News reports that the 39-year-old Jason Ukele, of Salina, was flown to a Wichita hospital after the Monday morning accident at...

HUBBARD, Okla. (AP) — The Latest on a fatal plane crash in northern Oklahoma (all times local): 5:25 p.m. The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says five people were killed when a small plane crashed in northern Oklahoma. A patrol report says the five died...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Diving crews have pulled the body of a 5-year-old child from the Kansas River, a day after the vehicle the child had been riding in crashed into the river. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the child's body was...

PONCA CITY, Okla. (AP) — An investigator with the National Transportation Safety Board has examined debris from a small aircraft that crashed in a northern Oklahoma field, killing all five people on board. NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said Sunday...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has joined 18 other states in adopting a law requiring motorists to use caution around garbage trucks by making driver carelessness a fineable offense. A ticket for what is now known as "unlawful passing of a waste...

ADA, Okla. (AP) — District 22 District Attorney Paul Smith's recent work on complicated capital murder cases has garnered the attention of a national advocacy group representing government attorneys. The Association of Government Attorneys in...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — "Is anybody home?" Sgt. Felix Valadez wiggles the poles of a tent, waiting for a sign someone is inside. When one tent is empty, he walks 10 feet to the next. "Police department, let me talk to you for a second." Muffled voices...

PONCA CITY, Okla. (AP) — Officials say a Kansas firefighter, three of his family members and a family friend were killed in the weekend crash of a small aircraft in northern Oklahoma. The Independence Rural Fire Department says Sycamore, Kansas,...

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Residents in Stillwater will soon have a place to pay their respects to those who died during a homecoming parade nearly three years ago. The $100,000 Stillwater Strong Memorial is scheduled to be dedicated on Oct. 26, the...

WARNER, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says the 72-year-old driver of a horse-drawn carriage has died in a collision with an SUV in Muskogee County. Troopers say carriage driver Billy Rogers was pronounced dead at the scene of...

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — He has never lived in Mississippi. But the state is home in a way much deeper than his own birth. "This is my homeland," said Thomas Olive, standing at the Natchez Trace Visitor Center on a recent day in Tupelo. "I always get...