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Texas Association of Basketball Coaches high school rankings for the week of Jan. 30.

“Would you look at that! Already ready to be a cat cafe!”

A man was found on fire in the bathroom of a Walmart Neighborhood Market over the weekend. The man was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

A Kansas man was charged Wesnesday for his part in a fire that killed two children and his girlfriend. Kyle Tyler was treated for smoke inhalation when he was found outside the home.

John Keith Calvin, 56, an inmate at Kansas' El Dorado Correctional Facility, has died of colon cancer after suing the state DoC for allegedly failing to provide proper treatment.

Police said the dog was in the back seat of a pickup truck when it stepped on the gun, shooting the hunter in the back.

A man who was shot by Kansas deputies was a suspect in a double-homicide case in Arizona. The man was fatally shot several times on Monday, along with two deputies.

Deputies in Dodge City, Kansas got into a shootout with a double homicide suspect out of Phoenix on Monday, resulting in the suspect's death and three deputies getting injured.

A wanted man died in a Dodge City, Kansas, police shootout after wounding three sheriff's deputies who pursued him on a chase that began near the Oklahoma border.

A college basketball season filled with upsets continued on Sunday, when No. 1 Houston was knocked off by unranked Temple, 56-55.

Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran's campaign reported that "cyber-criminals" stole nearly $700,000 from his campaign in the fall and the theft is under investigation by the FBI.

The football stadium press box at Blue Valley High School in Overland Park, Kansas was vandalized on Monday with racial, homophobic, and antisemitic graffiti.

Dana Chandler's conviction in the murders of her ex-husband and his fiancée was overturned, and her second trial ended in a hung jury.

Conservative Kansas legislators are pushing back more aggressively this year on LGBTQ-rights issues than in the past two years.

Three teams received first-place votes in The AP Top 25 men’s college basketball poll while Kansas State continued its stunning climb.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to hear the appeals of two brothers who were sentenced to death for four fatal shootings in a Kansas soccer field in December 2000 known as “the Wichita massacre.” Outgoing Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said the high court's decision means Jonathan and Reginald Carr no longer have any direct appeals of their death sentences.

Houston is back at No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll for the second time this season, while Kansas State continued its unexpectedly strong start by leaping from unranked to the verge of the top 10. The Cougars received 34 of 60 first-place votes in Monday’s poll to return to the top after a two-week stay there earlier this season. Kansas was second and had 22 first-place votes, while Purdue fell from No. 1 to No. 3 and got the other four first-place votes after suffering its first loss at Rutgers last week.

Kansas water experts are warning that farmers and ranchers in the state's western half must stop pumping more water out of a vast aquifer than nature puts back each year or risk an economic collapse there.

Kansas water experts are sounding an alarm decades in the making: Farmers and ranchers in the state's western half must stop pumping more water out of a vast aquifer than nature puts back each year or risk the economic collapse of a region important to the U.S. food supply. The Kansas Water Authority is telling lawmakers that Kansas needs to break sharply with its decadeslong policy of slowing depletion while still allowing water levels to drop in the Ogallala Aquifer.

Georgia, Kentucky, and Michigan each have plans to stand up between 97 and 136 gigawatt hours of EV battery manufacturing capacity per year by 2030.

The two-bedroom home has some original elements like a tin roof, metal siding, and hardwood floors from when it was a post office in the 1800s.

There have already been a handful of road wins that could end up being the best of the season. And in March, they could help decide selections and seedings.

Not a single championship game disappointed in 2022, some of which were thrillers to the very end. Here are your champions of every major professional sports league as the year ends.

The spill resulted in about 14,000 barrels of oil leaking out, the largest spill in the pipeline's history.

A pipeline operator has put a damaged section in Kansas back into service, a little more than three weeks after a spill dumped 14,000 barrels of crude oil into a creek.

North Carolina, which was No. 1 in the AP's preseason Top 25 poll, is an eight-seed in FOX Sports bracket forecaster Mike DeCourcy's projections after stumbling to a 9-4 record.

The 2022 college football bowl season is starting to heat up with four exciting matchups taking place on Wednesday.

Someone could win more than half a billion dollars in the Mega Millions lottery Tuesday, but that jackpot wouldn't even rank in the top 10 as the prizes have grown bigger in recent years.

A former Kansas state lawmaker was found guilty by a federal jury Wednesday of 12 felonies for lying on applications for federal COVID-19 relief. Federal prosecutors said Wichita Republican Michael Capps, 44, filed forms inflating the number of employees he had at two businesses and a sports foundation, and then applied for loans to pay the nonexistent employees. The Wichita Eagle reported that Capps was found guilty of three counts of making false statements on loan applications, one count of bank fraud, four counts of wire fraud and four counts of money laundering.

A Kansas man will serve another year in prison in connection with an illegal autopsy scheme, authorities said.

States are racing against a deadline to challenge the map federal officials will use to divvy up the nation’s largest-ever investment in high-speed internet.

A Kansas man was taken into custody and faces charges for the abduction of a 14-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Arkansas in early November.

Millions of barrels of oil have been lost to spills over the past 50 years.

The company operating a pipeline that leaked about 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of crude oil into a northeastern Kansas creek is recovering at least a small part of it.

The latest spill in Kansas unleashed more than an estimated half-million gallons into the surrounding area – more than all the crude oil pipeline spills in 2021 combined, according to federal data.

A ruptured section of the Keystone Oil Pipeline dumped nearly 600,000 gallons of crude oil into a Kansas creek. The Environmental Protection Agency says no drinking water was affected — but nearby residents are complaining of a strong odor.

A Kansas man has been charged in the 1980 fatal shooting of a nursing student. Steven Hanks was charged of second-degree murder and jailed on a $500,000 bond with no attorney.

"At 42 years and 10 months, we believe this is the oldest homicide arrest in the state of Kansas," the sheriff said.

Cleanup is underway in rural Kansas after a large oil spill from the Keystone pipeline this week. It was the largest U.S. spill for an onshore crude pipeline in more than nine years.

"People are sometimes not aware of the havoc that these things can wreak until the disaster happens," said Sierra Club lobbyist.

Federal data shows a spill from the Keystone pipeline this week dumped enough oil to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool into a northeastern Kansas creek.

An oil spill in a creek in northeastern Kansas this week is the largest for an onshore crude pipeline in more than nine years and by far the biggest in the history of the Keystone pipeline, according to federal data. Canada-based TC Energy on Thursday estimated the spill on the Keystone system at about 14,000 barrels, or 588,000 gallons. It said the affected pipeline segment had been “isolated,” the oil had been contained at the site with booms, or barriers, and environmental monitoring had been set up, including around-the-clock air-quality monitoring.

The cop “walked it out” with the drill team, matching the teenagers move for move in their performance.

During the contest several students hurled racial slurs and offensive language at the visiting basketball team's players, according to some of the athletes.

An Olive Garden manager was reportedly fired for a tirade about employees calling out of their shifts: "if you call off, you might as well go out and look for another job."

An oil spill in a creek in northeastern Kansas shut down a major pipeline that carries oil from Canada to the Texas Gulf Coast, briefly causing oil prices to rise Thursday. Canada-based TC Energy said it shut down its Keystone system Wednesday night following a drop in pipeline pressure. It said oil spilled into a creek in Washington County, Kansas, about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northwest of Kansas City.

A new policy from a manager in Kansas over an increase in the number of staff calling out sick appeared to backfire.

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Houston and Texas remain firmly entrenched atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll, while preseason No. 1 North Carolina has dropped out entirely after a fourth straight loss.

Houston and Texas remain firmly entrenched atop The Associated Press men’s college basketball poll.

Kansas providers are still evaluating their options regarding teleconferencing with abortion patients. Certain practices have provided telemedicine abortions in the past.

Week 13 of the college football season featured a loaded slate, highlighted by wins from USC and Kansas State. Here are Saturday's top plays!

A chimpanzee mother and her newborn baby enjoy a sweet reunion after nearly two days apart in this awesome, tear-jerking video from the Sedgwick County Zoo.

Here's everything you need to know about Texas-Kansas, from the point spread, moneyline and total Over/Under.

Nationally, infant mortality declined to a record low in 2020. But a 58% rise in Black infant mortality in Kansas sent birth experts searching for answers and solutions.

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A former Kansas City detective and three others were indicted in federal court for forcing women to perform sex acts on them and others, against their will, decades ago.

North Carolina and Gonzaga remain 1-2 in the first regular-season men’s college basketball poll from The Associated Press.

North Carolina and Gonzaga are 1-2 in the first regular-season men’s college basketball poll from The Associated Press.

Both parties see the governor’s race as a tossup in Republican-leaning Kansas.

Abortion access in several states could hinge on the outcome of November elections of lawmakers, governors, supreme court justices and attorneys general.

Nebraska Republicans are facing a challenge to get enough votes in the Legislature to enact an abortion ban, even though they are expected to easily retain control.

Three key takeaways from the state’s football scene -- and a glimpse at what’s to come next week.

States are spending billions of dollars of federal pandemic relief funds on infrastructure projects such as roads, bridges and public buildings.

Governors races often are overshadowed by the fight for control of Congress during midterm elections.

A federal judge has thrown out three of four charges against a researcher who was convicted of concealing work he did for China while employed by the University of Kansas.

A former Kansas City, Kansas, police detective accused of preying on poor Black females for decades will be released from custody pending his trial.

The Republican nominee for Kansas governor is trying to make the Democratic incumbent's support for abortion rights a liability.

Election officials say a decisive statewide vote in favor of abortion rights in Kansas has been confirmed with a partial hand recount.

Kansas’ decisive statewide vote in favor of abortion rights has been affirmed through a partial hand recount, a move forced by two Republican activists.

An anti-abortion activist who heads a small hard-right Republican group said he’s offered to pay the expected $229,000 cost of a hand recount of votes from every Kansas county after a decisive statewide vote affirming abortion rights.

Kansas’ elections director says the state will go along with a request for a hand recount of votes from every county after last week’s decisive statewide vote affirming abortion rights, even though there was a 165,000-vote difference and a recount won’t change the result.

Last week, Kansas voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed state lawmakers to tighten restrictions on abortion.

Some South Carolina lawmakers who oppose abortion are being cautious when it comes to tightening the state's already restrictive laws even further.

Abortion rights opponents were shocked and abortion advocates energized by a decisive statewide vote in heavily Republican Kansas this week in favor of protecting abortion access.

An Arizona lawmaker who embraces election conspiracies and was endorsed by former President Donald Trump has won the Republican primary for the top elections post in the presidential battleground.

An Arizona lawmaker endorsed by former President Donald Trump and another lawmaker who also believes the 2020 election should be overturned are among four Republicans vying to be the top election officer in Arizona.

A vote is looming in Kansas that could clear the way for the Legislature to more strictly regulate or ban abortion, but abortion opponents are hesitating to say what they intend to do if they win.

Abortion rights are poised to come before Michigan voters in November after an abortion rights campaign turned in a record-breaking number of signatures for a ballot initiative.

Industry officials say thousands of cattle in feedlots in southwestern Kansas have died of heat stress due to soaring temperatures, high humidity and little wind in recent days.

Elected leaders in Kansas convened community groups and held town hall conversations after demonstrators protested George Floyd’s death statewide.

Kansas’ highest court has upheld a Republican redistricting law that improves the GOP's chances of flipping the state's only congressional seat held by a Democrat.

Authorities say they've arrested a former respiratory therapist who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of a patient 20 years ago.

Officials say a tornado that barreled through parts of Kansas destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes and buildings, injured several people and left more than 15,000 people without power.

LGBTQ-rights advocates are calling for a Kansas state lawmaker to be formally censured after she said she didn't want to share the women’s restrooms at the Statehouse with a transgender colleague.

The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by Kansas to revive a law that banned secret filming at slaughterhouses and other livestock facilities but that was struck down by lower courts.

Kansas appears unlikely to join the growing number of states banning transgender athletes female sports in schools and colleges.

Kansas appears unlikely to join other states this year in banning transgender athletes from competing in girls’ and women’s school sports.

A flamingo known as “Pink Floyd” that escaped from a Kansas zoo 17 years ago has been spotted in Texas.

For decades we’ve heard of Tornado Alley, running from North Texas across Oklahoma and Kansas across the corn belt to Minnesota. The central United States is where, geographically, warm and moist Gulf air has met cold air off the Rockies to set up the perfect tornado recipe: warm air below, cold air above, spinning winds from several directions at the surface of the Earth with faster winds above. That recipe more and more is moving East. Already this morning (around 4:20 a.m.) a destructive tornado tore through Springfield, Arkansas. Here’s ExactTrack radar:

As Republicans question the security of ballot drop boxes, plenty of places stand to lose them, including small communities in Republican-leaning Kansas.

The 21st century tornado problem is far different from ‘The Wizard of Oz.’ Killer tornadoes hit the Southeast far more than they do in Kansas, Oklahoma or Texas.

Efforts to propel Kansas’ renewable energy future are mired in legislative stalemate.

Last season’s NCAA Tournament ultimately unfolded in familiar fashion.

Gonzaga, Auburn, Arizona and Kansas hold No. 1 seeds in the initial rankings for the committee that will select the field for next month’s 68-team men's NCAA Tournament.

Utah's state Senate passed rules this week limiting where the press can go to report in statehouses, marking the latest move by Republican state lawmakers nationwide who are peeling back access to chambers after the pandemic provided new accessibility.

Adam Flagler had 20 points and 10th-ranked Baylor beat No. 20 Texas 80-63 after losing big man Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua to a gruesome left knee injury.

Now that the Class of 2022 has been signed and locked up colleges are starting to send invites for Junior Days, host early unofficial visits and even offering kids with the next classes of recruiting on their minds.

Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua scored 21 points on 8-of-9 shooting as No. 10 Baylor beat Kansas State 75-60.