TEXAS CITY, Texas (AP) — When Lynn Ray Ellison lived in "The Rectangle" — the area of Texas City where the city's African-American community lived and thrived in the 1940s, '50s and '60s — life was different, he said. The Galveston County...

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — University of Oklahoma students demanded more from their campus administrators Tuesday, hours after the school released public apologies from two former students who were involved in a video in which one of the women wore...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — While most people can recognize her instrument by sight, harpist Yolanda Kondonassis knows their familiarity with its wide range of sounds is probably limited to the stereotypical tinkling glissandos. "It's like the intro to...

TALIHINA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma's House Veterans and Military Affairs Committee probably won't hear a bill that aims to end a $100 million state construction project and keep a veteran's center in a small southeastern town. Committee chair Rep....

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says it's are trying to identity a burned body found by a hunter in southeastern Oklahoma. The OSBI says the body was found on Monday near the unincorporated community of Cloudy in...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 26-year-old Missouri woman who intentionally drove her car into the Kansas River with her two children inside has been sentenced to life in prison. KMBC-TV reports Scharron Dingledine, of Columbia, Missouri, was sentenced...

GOODLAND, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Highway Patrol says a 19-year-old woman has died in a crash on an ice-covered section of Interstate 70. The patrol says Ashlen Leigh Lemon, of Hays, died Tuesday afternoon in the one-vehicle crash in Geary County....

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Snow and freezing rain has prompted officials to close the largest school districts in Nebraska and Iowa ahead of a winter storm that's threatening the Midwest with several inches of snow. The storm comes on the heels of the...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 34-year-old man who authorities say suffocated his 2-month-old twin son by rolling over on him while they slept has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison. The Wichita Eagle reports Kyle Kempton was sentenced Tuesday...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has delayed sentencing for a California man who admitted making a hoax call that led police to fatally shoot a Kansas man following a dispute between two online gamers over a $1.50 bet in a Call of Duty WWII...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Anti-abortion leaders are promising to pursue a change in the Kansas Constitution if the state's highest court rules that the document protects abortion rights. Several hundred abortion opponents rallied Tuesday inside the...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Female lawmakers are now able to breastfeed in the Kansas House. The Kansas City Star reports lawmakers approved the breastfeeding provision Tuesday as part of a package or rules for the chamber. Rep. Ponka-We Victors, a...

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A 27-year-old Olathe woman has been found guilty of injuring an infant boy so badly at her home day care that he was left blind and brain damaged. Paige Hatfield was found guilty Friday of aggravated battery in Johnson County...

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Committees in the Kansas House are considering two bills that would repeal the secretary of state's authority to prosecute election crimes, which was established after a long political fight by former Secretary of State Kris...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Leighton Mark, a photojournalist who taught himself to make pictures with one arm after he was wounded in 1984 while covering the civil war in Lebanon, has died. He was 67. Mark died Saturday at Lexington Park Assisted Living...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Lawrence police say an officer was impaled on his baton while struggling with a suspect. Police Sgt. Amy Rhoads says the officer is hospitalized after the confrontation but didn't appear to have life-threatening injuries....

DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — A New Mexico man died earlier this month following an explosion at a natural gas well site on the Southern Ute Reservation in southwest Colorado. The Durango Herald reports the preliminary investigation indicates 47-year-old...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas lawmaker filed legislation Tuesday that would trigger an abortion ban in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns its landmark 1973 decision that legalized the procedure across the nation. The proposal...

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Missouri inspectors have found that staff at hospital south of Kansas City failed to properly respond to an 83-year-old woman who showed distress after a routine colonoscopy and died the next day from internal bleeding....

SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. (AP) — The Republican Party believes it finally has its answer to the Democratic fundraising behemoth ActBlue. GOP groups are lending their support to a new donor platform called Patriot Pass, which they say will help the...

GALENA, Kan. (AP) — A military veteran has purchased a historic Kansas gas station along old Route 66 with plans to restore the building to its original condition. U.S. Army and Coast Guard veteran Aaron Perry is the new owner of a 1939 Texaco gas...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 49-year-old Overland Park man is facing federal charges in an alleged scheme that prosecutors say cost the government more than $12 million. Troy Bechtel was charged Friday with two counts of major program fraud and two...

SUGAR LAND, Texas (AP) — Bill Mills experienced firsthand the cruel conditions of Sugar Land's notorious Imperial Prison Farm. The Houston Chronicle reports back in 1910, he became a part of the Texas prison system shortly after his 17th birthday w...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Jan and Dave Meilner simply volunteered to help out at Children's Church on Sundays at Asbury United Methodist Church. They taught a kindergarten Sunday School class and used a puppet to help illustrate some Bible stories. "The...

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Tulsa's mayor says creating an independent office to monitor police will help build trust in law enforcement. Mayor G.T. Bynum announced Wednesday that the Office of the Independent Monitor will follow up on citizen complaints,...