Angry residents gathered outside their damaged homes in Kendricktown Thursday after a Jasper County Sheriff’s deputy delivered notices ordering them to call the county to inspect their homes before they could start rebuilding. Residents are invited to the next Jasper County Commission meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 5, at the Jasper County Courthouse to hear more on this order and why the county has to inspect their homes.

The city of Leavenworth will be required to spend $85,000 for violating the federal Clean Water Act.

Revelers will ring in the New Year with music, fireworks and the raising of an illuminated ball when Opening Night 2016 festivities kick off in downtown Oklahoma City.

Republican candidate John Brunner is pouring millions of dollars into his campaign for Missouri governor in 2016.

Officials with the Joplin Municipal Court are working to correct problems cited in a state audit.

The Environmental Protection Agency is ordering installation of an isolation barrier to make sure than an underground fire does not reach buried nuclear waste at a suburban St. Louis landfill site.

Members of the Iowa National Guard will travel to a flooded community near St. Louis to provide clean water for residents.

The latest developments from the College Football Playoff national semifinal game between Clemson and Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl (local time):

The winner of a $1 million Kansas Lottery promotion bought the prize ticket in south-central Kansas.

By KELLY P. KISSEL Associated Press The shooting of an unarmed man on a Tulsa street, which raised questions about a reserve deputy program, has been selected as the top story in Oklahoma in 2015.