Democrats in the Oklahoma House of Representatives have elected a 32-year-old Norman attorney to lead the minority caucus for the next two years.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says three vehicles, including a school bus, were involved in a crash on Interstate 70 near Rocheport.

A 26-year-old Texas sailor killed during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor will be buried in Dallas on the 77th anniversary of the attack.

A Kansas City nurse decided to donate a kidney to a patient, triggering a series of events that led to three people getting new organs in the first kidney donation chain collaboration between Children’s Mercy and…

The creation of so-called “free speech zones” designated for protests and demonstrations would be prohibited at Ohio’s public college campuses under legislation introduced by two Republican lawmakers, who say it’s…

An Oklahoma who conspired with his son to make pipe bombs, is sentenced to 30 months in prison.     U.S. District Judge John E. Dowdell handed down the sentence Wednesday in Tulsa to 54-year-old Berry Albert Nichols, who pleaded guilty in August to one count of conspiring with his son, 24-year-old Christopher Nichols, to purchase materials at a hardware store to create two pipe bombs.       Christopher Nichols was sentenced in December 2017 to 44 mon…

   A telephone hoax that lead to the shooting death of a Kansas man, could put the caller in jail for decades.     A California man has admitted making a hoax call that ultimately led police to fatally shoot a Wichita man following a dispute between online gamers over $1.50 bet in a Call of Duty WWII video game,     Twenty-six-year-old Tyler R. Barriss pleaded guilty to making a false report resulting in a death, cyberstalking and conspiracy rel…

     Arkansas and Oklahoma state agencies have signed an agreement which commits the states to work together to address concerns about water quality in the Illinois River prompted by poultry operation waste in northeastern Oklahoma.     The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality says that the agency, along with the state’s Natural Resources Commission and Oklahoma’s Secretary of Energy and Environment and Secretary of Agriculture, agreed Wednes…

     The last of 15 defendants has been sentenced in a conspiracy to distribute more than $1 million in Methamphetamine in Missouri.     Federal prosecutors say 29-year-old Michael Ryan Nevatt of Springfield was sentenced Wednesday 38.4 years in prison without parole.     Nevatt had been found guilty in April on seven charges involving the drug ring.     Testimony at the trial indicated Nevatt helped distribute methamphetamin…

Nicole Argent of St. Charles checked her Powerball ticket against the winning numbers and thought she won $100. It turned out she was a few zeroes off.